Lindsey Halligan, special assistant to President Donald Trump, pushed back against opposition to the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., telling Newsmax that critics “don’t want safe streets.”
The federal task force overseeing the National Guard’s deployment of about 2,000 service members to D.C. announced on Sunday that troops will begin carrying firearms while on the streets of the capital, where they can use their weapons for protection and “as a last resort” in a situation involving “imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.”
When asked about the opposition to Trump’s order calling in the National Guard, Halligan said on “National Report,” “I guess they don’t want safe streets,” adding, “it’s unbelievable. You wouldn’t think that the president has to defend trying to make D.C. safer, and it’s part of his whole plan of making D.C. beautiful with the beautiful buildings executive order and the Smithsonian executive order. … It’s all about making our country great again, and that means making our city safe and great again as well.”
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