Approximately 50 armed uniformed officers from the Department of Homeland Security were on standby at a federal building nearby as insurgents stormed the Capitol and Capitol Police asked for help from federal agencies, but the DHS agents were not deployed, NBC News reports.

The failure of the Trump Administration to deploy reinforcements during a siege that ended with five American deaths harken back to conspiracy theories Republicans leveled against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton relating to the attack at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

The uniformed officers from the US Customs and Border Protection were at a staging area at the Reagan Building, located 13 blocks from the Capitol, at the order of the Federal Protective Service, the DHS agency responsible for the protection of federal buildings.

Ultimately, some of the agents were sent to the Capitol, but in the evening hours, after the coup attempt had dissipated and the insurgents largely left the Capital grounds.

The Trump Administration to defend the Capitol from a group of largely-white pro-Trump coup attempt has raised concern among people in Congress, in the public and even in the Administration itself about Donald Trump’s desire to quash violence when it’s conducted by Trump supporters.

Trump, who quickly dispatched federal officers to protect statues of Confederate soldiers on federal land and send federal paramilitary units to defend a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, has been reported to have been watching the violence unfold on television, refusing to act.