West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, all Republicans, pledged on Aug. 16 to send hundreds of National Guard troops from their states to assist with President Donald Trump’s law and order crackdown in Washington.
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 Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and ordered 800 District of Columbia National Guard troops to be activated throughout the city “to rescue [the] 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
