Trump’s Show of Force Begins to Take Shape 

“National Guard troops began to deploy in Washington on Tuesday evening as President Trump’s plan to use the federal government to crack down on crime in the city started taking shape,” the New York Times reports.

“About a dozen members of the National Guard appeared in five military vehicles near the Washington Monument as the sun set, a stark juxtaposition to a peaceful evening scene of people jogging by with headphones and walking their dogs. They declined to answer a reporter’s questions about their mission and about how long they would be there, with one saying he had been instructed not to.”