{"id":4223,"date":"2025-08-25T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-creates-quick-reaction-force-out-of-state-guard-troops-for-law-enforcement-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:38:44","slug":"trump-creates-quick-reaction-force-out-of-state-guard-troops-for-law-enforcement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-creates-quick-reaction-force-out-of-state-guard-troops-for-law-enforcement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump creates \u2018quick reaction force\u2019 out of state Guard troops for law enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nationalguardthree_0-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A member of the National Guard stands alongside a military vehicle parked in front of Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18, 2025. (Photo by Jane Norman\/States Newsroom)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A member of the National Guard stands alongside a military vehicle parked in front of Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18 (Jane Norman\/States Newsroom)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing state National Guard units to be ready to assist local, state and federal law enforcement, a potential step toward a dramatic expansion of Trump\u2019s use of military personnel for domestic policing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/additional-measures-to-address-the-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia\/\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a> calls for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ensure troops in the National Guard of every state \u201care resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety\u201d and directs the secretary to establish \u201ca standing National Guard quick reaction force\u201d for \u201cnationwide deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hegseth will also work with adjutant generals to decide a number of each state\u2019s Guard \u201cto be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes,\u201d the order said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">State National Guard units are generally controlled by the state\u2019s governor, except in emergencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In comments in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the Guard deployment could rapidly \u201csolve\u201d crime in some major cities, but left doubt about his desire to overrule governors who do not want Guard troops in their cities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/pentagon-approves-national-guard-carry-weapons-dc-federal-takeover-extends\" target=\"_blank\">mobilized the District of Columbia National Guard,<\/a> which he is able to do because the district is not a state, to assist local law enforcement this month. Guard troops from West Virginia, Louisiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina also have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/six-gop-states-send-more-1000-national-guard-dc-trump-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\">sent troops<\/a> to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Free DC, a group that advocates for district self-governance, issued a lengthy statement calling the move dictatorial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTrump is laying the groundwork to quell all public dissent to his agenda. If he is successful, it would spell the end of American democracy,\u201d the group said. \u201cWe refuse to allow that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Chicago next?<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following the deployment to Washington, D.C., Trump said \u201cChicago should be next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Democratic governors, such as Illinois\u2019 J.B. Pritzker, should request National Guard assistance, Trump said. But if they would not, Trump said he may not send troops.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Asked if he would send troops into cities over governors\u2019 objections, Trump complained that governors could be ungrateful for federal deployment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe may wait,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe may or may not. We may just go in and do it, which is probably what we should do. The problem is it\u2019s not nice when you go in and do it, and somebody else is standing there saying, as we give great results, say, \u2018Well, we don\u2019t want the military.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pritzker slammed Trump on social media and said he would not accept Trump sending troops to his state\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ve said it once, and I\u2019ll say it again and again: We don\u2019t have kings or wannabe dictators in America, and I don\u2019t intend to bend the knee to one,\u201d he posted with a link to Trump\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act generally prohibits federal military forces from engaging in domestic law enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018I\u2019m not a dictator\u2019<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump dismissed criticism that deploying the military for law enforcement purposes is antidemocratic, saying that most people agree with extreme measures to crack down on urban crime.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey say, \u2018We don\u2019t need \u2018em. Freedom, freedom. He\u2019s a dictator, he\u2019s a dictator,\u2019\u201d Trump said of his critics. \u201cA lot of people are saying, \u2018Maybe we like a dictator.\u2019 I don\u2019t like a dictator. I\u2019m not a dictator. I\u2019m a man with great common sense and a smart person. And when I see what\u2019s happening to our cities, and then you send in troops, instead of being praised, they\u2019re saying, \u2018You\u2019re trying to take over the republic.\u2019 These people are sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump earlier this summer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/judge-says-trump-takeover-california-national-guard-illegal-orders-return-governor\" target=\"_blank\">called up the California National Guard<\/a> to quell protests over immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, setting the stage for his actions in the district. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has challenged the president\u2019s authority in a case that is still in court.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trump over the weekend also<a href=\"https:\/\/marylandmatters.org\/2025\/08\/25\/trump-targets-key-bridge-funds-baltimore-troop-deployment-in-social-media-sniping\/\" target=\"_blank\"> fought\u00a0<\/a>with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, also a Democrat, on social media and threatened to send in troops to Baltimore.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the National Guard stands alongside a military vehicle parked in front of Union Station, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18 (Jane Norman\/States Newsroom) President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday directing state National Guard units to be ready to assist local, state and federal law enforcement, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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