"They want the Guard to come in. Or, they don't care who comes in. They just wanna be safe. And they really don't care. There was one woman, she was great today. She said. You know what? I don't care if it's the National Guard, the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, I don't care who comes in, as long as we're safe. And that's the way most of the public feels."
"And it was so great we started with our nation's capital. One of the worst, I mean, so many people, every week somebody was killed. They'd come from Iowa, they'd come from Indiana, they wanna see the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial. They wanna see something and then get shot. And you'd call their parents. I'm sorry, but your son is dead. And they go, What do you mean he's dead? Came to Washington, D.C. Not anymore."
President Donald Trump defended deploying National Guard members to Democratic-run cities and urged military intervention in metropolises he described as crime-ridden, despite crime declining broadly last year. He told military brass that U.S. cities should serve as training grounds and cited an anecdote about voters wanting any force to restore safety. He described Washington, D.C. as once a place where tourists could be killed and depicted a scenario of informing grieving parents about a murdered visitor. He asserted the capital is now safe and contrasted the present with months earlier, calling the prior situation a deathtrap.
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