{"id":15697,"date":"2020-06-02T14:27:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2020-06-02T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:34:09","slug":"trump-finally-deploys-the-national-guard-across-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15697","title":{"rendered":"Trump finally deploys the National Guard across the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>18,000 National Guard Troops Deployed Across US, Trump Slams &#8220;Lowlifes And Losers&#8221; For Riot Chaos<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump\u00a0threatens to deploy military<\/li>\n<li>At least\u00a0nine dead,\u00a0+4,000 arrested, riots rage in 140 cities as riots rage for the seventh day<\/li>\n<li>National Guard deployed in 29\u00a0states<\/li>\n<li>40 cities\u00a0to\u00a0impose strict curfews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Update (1120ET):<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0More than 18,000\u00a0National Guard troops will be assisting law enforcement authorities in 29 states, according to the head of the National Guard, adding that an additional 1,500 National Guard troops from other states will be shifted to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard Chief said there were no reports of injuries to any service members\u00a0deployed across American cities, despite worsening social unrest on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0U.S. military said it had increased force protection level at the Pentagon and military bases in the\u00a0Baltimore\u2013Washington metropolitan area. Increasing force protection at bases\u00a0does two things: allows bases to counter-terrorist or other hostile adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after the news hit that the National Guard upped its deployment across the U.S., President Trump tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYC, CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD. The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart. Act fast! Don\u2019t make the same horrible and deadly mistake you made with the Nursing Homes!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1267835873405665282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Update (1018ET):<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0 Ahead of expected social unrest in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon\/evening &#8212; Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, has just tweeted a picture of what appears to be a new fence erected around the White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New fencing has been erected at the north edge of Lafayette Square, adding to the sense of a fortress White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NP3xXRqTOE\">pic.twitter.com\/NP3xXRqTOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterbakernyt\/status\/1267816637199073281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Update (0830ET):<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0Last night saw\u00a0<strong>the worst of the violence aimed at police officers<\/strong>\u00a0with one dead, at least five shot, and at least four more run over by &#8220;protesters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least five U.S. police were hit by gunfire during violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody, police and media said, hours after President Donald Trump said he would deploy the military if unrest does not stop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>-One US Marshall killed in Las Vegas<\/li>\n<li>-Four officers shot in St. Louis<\/li>\n<li>-At least two officers run over in Buffalo, NY<\/li>\n<li>-One NYPD officer run over in the Bronx<\/li>\n<li>-Another run over in Greenwich Village<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An emotional St Louis police commissioner, John Hayden, said about\u00a0<strong>200 protesters were \u201cjumping up and down like crazy people\u201d, looting and throwing fireworks and rocks at officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tensions-erupt-nation-burns-following-trump-threats-military-force-against-protesters\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tensions-erupt-nation-burns-following-trump-threats-military-force-against-protesters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18,000 National Guard Troops Deployed Across US, Trump Slams &#8220;Lowlifes And Losers&#8221; For Riot Chaos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}