Trump Deploying Troops in DC

US military preparing to activate

National Guard in Washington DC and

Donald Trump uh is now preparing to

mobilize

hundreds of National Guard troops in DC.

Uh now Donald Trump last week was

threatening sort of a federal takeover

of Washington DC suggesting that the

Democratled

law enforcement agencies of DC are

failing at keeping DC safe and uh it's

unacceptable for the nation's capital to

be essentially deemed unsafe. Uh and so

uh now you're getting this potential

Trump move here to deploy the National

Guard in DC much like he did in uh Los

Angeles. Trump administration live

updates. Here we go. The New York the US

military is preparing to activate the

National Guard in the nation's capital

as part of the president's campaign

against crime there. The president was

expected to announce this at a White

House news conference on Monday that up

to several hundred DC National Guard

personnel will be sent to support uh law

enforcement in the city. Uh I will make

our capital great again, Trump said in a

post on true social. Uh okay. Trump has

not approved the deployment orders yet,

but is expected to make that

announcement. Uh he says that crime is

totally out of control

and uh that the National Guard's

individuals would not have arrest

authorities. Uh instead though they

would support law enforcement officials

or free them up to carry out their

patrol duties. You know who's really

freeing up law enforcement officers to,

you know, fulfill their patrol duties,

frankly, is Axon. I wonder how the

stock's doing today. Not that, you know,

intraday really matters, but Axon, ah,

it's down 1%. Not a lot of volume on the

stock, but look at this stock over time

here. I mean, this is the week chart on

the stock, and it's just been up and to

the right, you know, here in 2019,

pre-COVID, it was like a $40 stock, $800

stock. Now, you know, this is being seen

as like the AI for law enforcement play.

It's incredible because, you know, if AI

can take over the boring sort of report

writing, uh, it really does free up law

enforcement to keep doing their work.

Uh, especially since the body cameras

are essentially recording audio and

video anyway. you could really just have

AI do the uh paperwork for you, which is

partly scary, but also probably better

than, you know, a cop with a potential

bias uh writing a report where there

really shouldn't be a bias. But anyway,

uh the Trump administration also plans

to temporarily reassign 120 FBI agents

in Washington to nighttime patrol

duties. Wow. I I don't think I've ever

heard of the FBI

conducting patrol. In fact, I I think I

usually hear law enforcement officers

suggest that the FBI isn't exactly

trained for street work. Uh and that uh

uh frequently there are some

frustrations between law enforcement uh

you know, patrol officers and FBI when

it comes to uh actual patrol work uh and

uh and safety or procedures. But anyway,

most of the agents will be pulled from

their regular duties at the Washington

DC FBI field office. Wow. So, pulling

the FBI off their work, removing Trump's

name from the Epstein files. I mean,

doing whatever it is that they're doing

at the FBI Washington DC field office

and uh going out on patrol.

The troop activation in Washington comes

after the deployment this summer of

nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to

Los Angeles to quell protests that had

erupted over immigration raids. All but

250 of those troops have since been

withdrawn. Uh, I think a lot of this too

was just Donald Trump's very clear

indication to voters that Trump, a vote

for Trump was a vote for law and order

and uh Trump will stop at nothing to

make sure it's clear that people were

getting what they bargained for. Now,

uh, you know, I know some people see

that as uh, you know, maybe maybe a

little too extreme or government

overreach. Uh but in fairness,

you know, if you've got the National

Guard deployed, probably have a

relatively uh safe region where the

National Guard is deployed. I always

actually thought you could use the

National Guard to solve homeless

problems. Mostly because when when

people, you know, fall asleep on the

street, they end up dying on the street

or end up becoming, you know, drug

victims or abuse victims or whatever

else. Uh and so even though it's much

more uh militaristic, it it is certainly

a way of um adding to security. That's

there's there's no doubt about that. And

I don't think that's disputable at all.

Uh but uh but it does come across as as

um you know, a presence that uh that you

know people see as like way too much

state power and overbearing. And

obviously you wouldn't want it to become

sort of a permanent fixture. It's not

like you want to live in martial law,

right? But if it could be used as a

temporary crutch to get things going uh

or get things get the ship get the water

bailed out of the ship so to speak and

and right size the ship or you know

maybe that's okay. Anyway, uh Trump

administration plans to temporarily

reassign 120 FBI agents in Washington to

nighttime patrol duties as President

Trump's crackdown on the city's street

crime or in response to to these goals.

It's very interesting. Uh, again, I

think the the whole point of this isn't

necessarily that you're putting the most

skilled street crime experts out. It's

rather just that knowing that there's a

physical presence of more law

enforcement officers is is basically

Trump's advertisement for, hey, this is

this is how we roll. Uh and um

frankly it probably will end up working

to reduce crime uh especially if you end

up having uh the National Guard deployed

in areas potentially with more crime.

You know something that you have to look

at when you look at Washington DC and

we've uh we've looked at real estate

quite a bit out in DC uh is you've you

know DC changes very very quickly. So,

like you could go from DC over here,

like Lincoln Memorial, and you could

drive not very far and end up in, you

know, Berry Farm over here or Southeast

Washington, for example. I mean, you

kind of want a gun in some of these

areas, you know? So, like there is a

crime problem there. There there are

dangerous streets. There are streets you

just don't want to go to at night. So,

I'm not trying to single anything out in

particular, but I mean, I've been on

these streets, and so I get it. Uh, and

I think Trump is trying to come from

this angle of, hey, we're not going to

let this happen anywhere that is a

symbol of America and, uh, Los Angeles

is Donald Trump's tool for showcasing a

Democratic failure, which in fairness,

Los Angeles in part is. Uh and then you

know thanks thanks Nuome also Karen Bass

uh and then of course the nation's

capital which uh you know should should

be the most secure. Anyway, it's going

to be really interesting to see. Uh, I

think that'll make for a lot of press,

but uh I'm I'm always opposed or I'm I'm

never opposed to more security,

especially if that leads to more longer

term peace and safety for a functional

uh for for a functional region.

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>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

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