Hi there, everybody. It's Warwick in the East. It's a shock just to say it out loud. There are boots on the ground in the streets of our nation's capital this afternoon today. National Guard troops arrived earlier today acting on orders from their commander-in-chief to execute a takeover of Washington, D.C.'s

Police Department in order to fight crime, which data suggests is at its lowest in decades,

and we should point out, which hasn't been done in the past, to solve crime or anything else.

Earlier, Mayor Muriel Bowser met with Attorney General Pam Bondi, along with several top

Justice Department officials about how to actually implement Trump's new directive as protests

have erupted across Washington, D.C. And while administration officials maintain that

Donald Trump's decision to federalize D.C.s police force is entirely legal. There are clear and

obvious questions and concerns about what happens next. More specifically, what if this is

just the beginning? On that topic, the Washington Post today citing internal Pentagon documents

published exclusive new reporting into a plan that would formalize a so-called

military reaction force for deployment in instances of civil unrest.

Quote, the plan calls for 600 troops to be on standby at all times so they can deploy in as

little as one hour, the documents say.

They would be split into two groups of 300

and stationed at military bases in Alabama and Arizona

with purview of regions east and west

of the Mississippi River respectively.

Remember, Donald Trump's military takeover of Washington

is just the latest instance of the ways

in which Trump has directed the military

to take action on American soil against Americans. From the New York Times, quote, already this

year Trump has deployed some 10,000 active duty troops to the southwest US border to choke off

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