Republican Govs. Patrick Morrisey, Henry McMaster, and Mike DeWine pledged on Aug. 16, to send hundreds of their National Guard troops from West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio, respectively, to assist with President Donald Trump’s law and order crackdown in the District of Columbia.
Morrisey announced on X that he had directed the deployment following a request from the Trump administration.
The directive was issued after Trump, on Aug. 11, exercised federal authority over the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and ordered 800 D.C. National Guard troops to be activated throughout the city “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”…
West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio to Deploy National Guard in Support of DC Crime Crackdown
