Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab

[Uncle Joe]

Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration's takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime. Along with the D.C. National Guard that Trump already controlled, this brings the total number of troops in the streets of the capital to more than 2,000. The federal takeover comes even as violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low — numbers the Trump administration now disputes, with the Justice Department launching an investigation into whether those crime statistics were manipulated by city officials.

"What we're seeing is lawlessness, but it's all coming from the White House," says community activist Keya Chatterjee, the executive director of the group Free DC.

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[D. Spaulding]

1. That's ridiculous; there's nothing

going in in DC that warrants NG from other states. This is just pandering by those governors.

[johnnyfins]

2. All red states?

Then it should be "Six, republican led, blue state subsidized, states are spending blue state money to send their guard troops to DC for a bullshit emergency."

[SSJVegeta]

3. Red States invading a blue district. 😒 🤔