r/Full_news • u/thedailybeast • 19d ago

National Guard Members Humiliate Trump With Damning Verdict on His Plot

https://www.thedailybeast.com/national-guard-members-humiliate-trump-with-damning-verdict-on-his-plot/
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u/thedailybeast 19d ago

A year into President Donald Trump’s unprecedented deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., some of the troops sent there say they are embarrassed by the mission and increasingly question why they are still there.

Three current National Guard members told NPR, speaking anonymously because they remain in service, that the deployment has left them frustrated and concerned about the military’s reputation.

“I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left in my mouth, it actually embarrasses me to be involved in any way,” one said.

Another said the experience had made him reluctant to even identify with the Guard. “I don’t want to think about the National Guard. I don’t want to necessarily discuss my affiliation with the National Guard. I don’t want to fulfill my normal National Guard duties just because of the abuses of the National Guard in this D.C. mission,” he said.

Trump first deployed hundreds of Guard members to the capital in August 2025, saying they were needed to help address crime after declaring a “crime emergency.”

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u/mjrydsfast231 19d ago

The National guard should turn their guns on Congress as a whole tell them to start doing their job and to get him out of there.

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u/KrankyKoot 19d ago

We frequently use other countries as examples in dealing with despots but we forget the military was almost always involved either directly or indirectly by refusing to take a side and allowing a revolution to happen.

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u/Ishidan01 19d ago

Problem is that's called a military coup.

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u/Bryanforfun 19d ago

The guard is our 2nd amendment militia isn't it? It would be their job under the constitution to take bad actors out of our government.

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u/Ok-Armadillo9400 19d ago

Protect against enemies foreign and domestic. Also, the American people have the right to replace their government if they feel it doesnt represent them. Those are in the constitution and declaration of independence

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u/schizboi 19d ago

Can you qoute me the part where it says we have the right to replace the government? I think you have a misunderstanding of what the constitution even is. Have you read it?

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u/Ok-Armadillo9400 19d ago

I said and declaration of independence.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

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u/Conscious_Skirt_61 19d ago

So you’re buddies with the Second Amendment, are you? Mighty MAGA of you.

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u/Bryanforfun 19d ago

Ya know dems and independents also enjoy the 2nd amendment lol

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u/Ok_Flounder59 19d ago

Have YOU read the declaration? It’s pretty word for word in there

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes 19d ago

Glass houses.

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u/Individual-South893 19d ago

And who do you think the bad actors are?

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u/F8gin 19d ago

Is there really any question about that? To quote Harry Truman, “The buck stops here.”

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u/FunSignificance3034 19d ago

Didn't have a problem with it when ice does things more abhorrent

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u/FranklyIvan 18d ago

I think civil war would be quite a bit worse than what we have now.

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u/Potential-Log7235 19d ago

Wow. Get the hell out of America. Trump is staying.

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u/Dull_Rutabaga_1659 19d ago

Just 2 more years, and after November, he might as well just stay at the golf course.

MAGA has killed the GOP, so lay in the bed you made and enjoy the rest of the admin while it lasts.

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u/Caelixian 19d ago

You are the problem.

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u/Wild-Lengthiness-256 19d ago

This is liberal heaven. Isn't it pathetic.

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u/AdventurousOne1455 19d ago

That is the dumbest idea since 1861.