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Donald Trump: “I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law…”

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Published August 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:16

And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening. They've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law order of public safety in Washington D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. And you people are victims of it too. (02:16–02:25)

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