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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Aug 19, 2025, 01:18 PM Aug 2025

Sounds like Trump is hoping for a massacre

Trump adds firepower to National Guard presence in DC

The number of National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., will more than double in the coming days after Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia in the past several days committed troops to President Trump’s federal takeover of the city.

Coupled with indications that the guard members may soon be carrying weapons — a reversal of their initial orders — the new deployments mark a major escalation of Trump’s efforts to take over law enforcement in Washington.

The roughly 800 D.C. National Guard troops already deployed in the capital will be joined by about 200 personnel from Mississippi, between 300 and 400 from West Virginia, 150 from Ohio and 200 from South Carolina, beefing up a presence that has largely stood idle around typically low-crime, tourist-heavy areas in the city.

“Crime is out of control there, and it’s clear something must be done to combat it,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said in a statement Monday, becoming the latest Republican governor to answer to a Trump administration request to send guard members to Washington.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-adds-firepower-national-guard-100000438.html

Do we need further proof that Mississippi is dead last in education? Jackson MS has a worse crime rate than DC as do Toledo and Cleveland in Ohio.
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Sounds like Trump is hoping for a massacre (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
See what you did SCROTUS? GreenWave Aug 2025 #1
hear the laughter? ret5hd Aug 2025 #4
And they're going to KEEP sending troops ... usonian Aug 2025 #2
Too many POC and immigrants living in the District, Trump wants to change that. sop Aug 2025 #3
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