{"id":152717,"date":"2025-09-14T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152717"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:00:38","slug":"trump-announces-national-guard-will-be-deployed-in-memphis-to-fight-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=152717","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trump announces National Guard will be deployed in Memphis to fight crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/12\/trump-memphis-national-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;President Donald Trump said Friday that Memphis will be the next target of a National Guard deployment, as his administration expands its use of the military to fight crime to its third Democratic-run city in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to Memphis,\u201d Trump said during a Fox News interview, calling it a \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d city. \u201cNational Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way, we\u2019ll bring in the military too, if we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The move follows similar National Guard deployments to Los Angeles and D.C. as part of what Trump has said is a necessary federal intervention in those cities to crack down on violent crime and ramp up deportations of undocumented immigrants. The deployment to Memphis will be the first time Trump has mobilized the National Guard to a state he won in November.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;President Donald Trump said Friday that Memphis will be the next target of a National Guard deployment, as his administration expands its use of the military to fight crime to its third Democratic-run city in recent months. \u201cWe\u2019re going to Memphis,\u201d Trump said during a Fox News interview, calling it a \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d city&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152718,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152717\/revisions\/152718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}