Trump deploys National Guard in D.C. to curb crime
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. Better to schedule a free estimate with the local experts at gutter helmet. So you stay off the ladder. Visit gutter helmetindy.com with gutter helmet. You'll never clean your gutters again. gutter helmetindy.com. Yesterday, President Trump, he pledged to make D.C. Safe, smart and beautiful. This all happened during a White House press conference. So he signed a memorandum to activate the D.C. National Guard. Okay. And he's doing this because what violence and tomfoolery is even by what, look, Washington, D.C., you'll back me up on this case. It's a pretty crummy place. Parts of it, yeah. It could be dangerous. I mean, that's what I Washington D.C you'll back me up on this case it's a pretty crummy place |
| 0:38.8 | parts of it yeah yeah I mean that's what I'm saying like you get in your mind these great visuals |
| 0:43.9 | which they are they're incredible you know Lincoln Memorial you know Washington Monument everything |
| 0:47.9 | all of these things right and they're they're incredible things and if you've never been to |
| 0:50.9 | Washington D.C I I drove by force. |
| 0:57.0 | Have ever told you this story? |
| 0:58.2 | This is how wasteful our government is. |
| 1:00.9 | This was one of the many reasons that... |
| 1:02.6 | Oh, when you were on the licensing board? |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, this is one of the Rob Kendall origin stories where they, the state made me, when I was the |
| 1:10.2 | pharmacy board, when I was the head of the pharmacy board, |
| 1:13.9 | they made me go on a trip to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:16.3 | And I told them, I'm like, there's nothing I'm going to learn there that is of any value to this that we're doing here in terms of serving people. |
| 1:25.1 | Like, I'd be far more valuable to the taxpayers to just sit here and help our understaffed |
| 1:30.8 | customer service reps, answer phones and process paperwork, you know, because that's who we serve. |
| 1:36.9 | No, you have to go. |
| 1:38.4 | But why? |
| 1:39.7 | Because we've always gone. |
| 1:41.8 | That doesn't really seem like, A, a good reason, |
| 1:44.3 | and B, a great use of taxpayer money. |
| 1:46.4 | But I went by force, got in my automobile, |
| 1:49.9 | and charioted myself halfway across the country, |
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