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MaximusDecimus 151 points ago +156 / -5

The DC national guard is under the command of the Secretary of the Army. If the national guard is there it's because the whitehouse wants them to be.

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MAGAA2020isback 47 points ago +48 / -1

Ding ding ding. The mainstream might claim it to be "preventing the next Oklahoma City," but so long as they're deployed by POTUS then this actual reason rings hollow.

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Hanging_Chad 9 points ago +9 / -0

I thought I saw a post on here a couple days ago saying Pence approved the deployment, causing people to speculate that the 25th Amendment had been invoked?

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MAGAA2020isback 7 points ago +9 / -2

THAT many ground troops for a guy who can hop in a plane and be far away from DC within seconds? That theory doesn't pass the sniff test.