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Trump’s Nationwide Guard Blunder A short historical past of the Nationwide Guard in Washington. I’m saying a historic motion to “Trump should go now.” Rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. “D.C.’s shadow senator elevating considerations about what this might imply for taxpayers.” We’re going to take our capital again. We’re taking it again. “The presence of the Nationwide Guard continues within the District.” “The query right here is, what are they doing, essentially.” “They only stand round and chitchat with one another.” “Troops are instructed to cite, put together for a long-term, persistent presence.” “They appear bored to me.” We’re going to make it protected. The crime numbers are approach down. “D.C. leaders contend there is no such thing as a disaster pointing to crime charges now at a 30-year low.” “Troops are principally absent from neighborhoods with the very best charges of crime, in Southeast and Northeast D.C.” “We haven’t seen any of that over right here in Southeast D.C.” “This isn't the reply, bringing the Nationwide Guard.” “They’re nonetheless patrolling areas like Metro stations and the Nationwide Mall.” “These are Nationwide Guardsmen who're standing round vacationer websites.” “What I’ve seen them doing is standing round beneath the Washington Monument for photograph ops.” “It looks as if it’s extra of a spectacle for these which are visiting.” “They’re right here primarily for present. There may be some form of morbid humor round all of it.” We’ve had some unimaginable outcomes. It’s like a special place. “D.C. Nationwide Guardspeople are cleansing up the parks.” “Choosing up trash and pulling weeds.” “Collected greater than 500 baggage of trash and gotten rid of three truckloads of plant waste. And I don’t assume there’s something flawed with that.” The outcomes have come out — “And morale is falling quick.” “Most of them that I’ve talked to don’t actually need to be right here both.” We’re going to remain right here for some time. We need to make this positively excellent. “Troops have been ordered to remain at the very least by way of subsequent summer time.” “Might keep in D.C. indefinitely.” “All proper. What are we really doing? What are we paying for as taxpayers?” “It prices just a little bit a couple of million {dollars} a day to have these Nationwide Guardsmen right here.” “We do have some breaking information that we need to get to and it involves us from our nation’s capital. The U.S. federal decide dominated that the deployment of the Nationwide Guard in Washington, D.C., is prohibited.”

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