Republican West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged, on Aug. 16, to send up to 400 of his state’s National Guard troops to assist with President Donald Trump’s law and order crackdown in Washington.
Morrisey announced on X that he had directed the deployment following a request from the Trump administration.
The directive was issued after Trump, on Aug. 11, exercised federal authority over the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and ordered 800 D.C. National Guard troops to be activated throughout the city “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”
Morrisey’s office said the West Virginia National Guard would provide equipment and specialized training for the mission, along with “approximately 300–400 skilled personnel.”…