The Other Shoe Drops in DC, As Trump Readies the

President Donald Trump is readying the National Guard to deploy in the nation’s capital, according to a new report from GWN. 

That comes after a brutal assault left a top staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency bleeding on a Washington road. Edward Coristine suffered severe accidents while making an attempt to save a lady from being carjacked. The outrage that ensued has pushed a collection of strikes to strive to clean up the violent crime downside in D.C. 

As RedState reported, the points have been exacerbated by a left-wing metropolis council that has coddled criminals in the identify of “social justice.” That consists of a collection of initiatives and amendments that have led to assailants not being charged and despatched to jail, particularly relating to younger people. Roving gangs of youngsters assaulting and carjacking people have been an epidemic for properly over a decade in the metropolis. 

Understandably, Trump is no longer prepared to sit by and wait for the local Democrat politicians to stop being Democrats. In response to the Department of Justice’s request to tighten up the legal guidelines surrounding criminality, members of the metropolis council scoffed. 

Wrong reply, Zachary.

When the administration comes down arduous, don’t say you weren’t given a likelihood. https://t.co/7ZO3gchIbb

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 8, 2025

Well, we’re now at the “coming down hard” portion of this saga. What began with placing more FBI brokers on the streets is now escalating to the deployment of the National Guard. 

SEE: Trump Sends Over 100 FBI Agents to Patrol the Lawless Streets of Washington, DC

BREAKING via GWN

The U.S. navy is making ready for the activation of a whole lot of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 11, 2025

What precisely would these National Guard troops be doing? That’s an open query. They could possibly be used to help shield the aforementioned FBI brokers. They might also help with processing and detainment. In other phrases, they’d operate as a help mechanism to free up law enforcement to do more direct enforcement actions. Most of all, though, I believe the level of this can be to offer a deterrent to criminals by merely getting more eyes on more elements of the metropolis. 

Is somebody more or less probably to commit a carjacking or assault when National Guard members are standing on the adjoining road nook? I believe the reply to that is clear. 

Regardless, it ought to be remembered how we obtained right here. Republicans didn’t invent or propagate the violent crime downside in the nation’s capital. That’s on the Democrat politicians who have run the metropolis for a long time on end. The metropolis council and the mayor had a likelihood to reply to the administration’s issues like adults instead of doubling down on their failures, and they selected the latter. That thumbing of the nostril may match in other blue cities, but D.C. is a federal metropolis with very distinctive mechanisms permitting the administration to take real motion. 

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