“It will not stand, and that’s why President Trump has asked me, and I will ask the secretary of the Army to the National Guard, to add 500 additional troops, National Guardsmen, to Washington, DC,” Hegseth said. Hegseth said the shootings, which both he and the president said left the guardsmen “critically wounded,” were a “cowardly” and “dastardly act targeting the best of America.” He called the Guardsmen “heroes willing to serve in Washington, D.C., serve for people they don’t know, and they’ve never met, because they love their country, and their capital, and their community.”
Author: Nick Gilbertson
Published at: 2025-11-26 23:06:08
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