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Members of the Ohio National Guard wear their sidearms while patrolling in the Logan Circle neighborhood, weeks after US President Donald Trump ordered National Guard and law enforcement to patrol the nation’s capital to assist in crime prevention, in Washington, DC, on August 24, 2025. [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]
Members of the Ohio National Guard wear their sidearms while patrolling in the Logan Circle neighborhood, weeks after US President Donald Trump ordered National Guard and law enforcement to patrol the nation’s capital to assist in crime prevention, in Washington, DC, on August 24, 2025. [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters] (Reuters)
  • Building on longstanding rhetoric about crime rates in Democratic cities, United States President Donald Trump has threatened to send the National Guard into Baltimore, as news emerges that the Pentagon has been drawing up plans for a deployment in Chicago.
  • The ramping up comes as National Guard troops posted to Washington, DC, begin carrying weapons.