Photo from the Ohio National Guard.
At the request of Trump’s administration, Ohio Governor Mike Dewine expanded the distribution of soldiers of the National Guard in Washington until the end of November.
This month, it was expected that 150 soldiers would return home from patrolling the capital of the country – but these plans were delayed.
“I really think it harm morale,” said veteran and senator of state Casey Weinstein, D-Hudson. “It really damages the institution.”
Weinstein is disappointed in Dwine after he extended a 30-day growth in DC for 60 days.
The original mission was to combat what President Donald Trump called the crime.
“It was a very dangerous place over the past year,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “In the last 20 years it has been very dangerous.”
According to DC police, crimes with violence are 30 years ancient. Recently, soldiers have been noticed that they were cleaning garbage and performing landscape tasks. Common Task Group – Colombia’s district The spokesman told us that Ohio’s troops were not on the patrol of rubbish.
“On the mission that they are not even clear, it’s a real need, right?” Weinstein said. “Marking or collecting garbage – for me it is a degradation of what the guard should represent.”
But after a month, President Donald Trump said that his mission to make the capital was safer.
“There is practically no crime now,” said Trump. “We call it” free of crime. “
So why are Ohio soldiers still there?
“I talked to the head of the Washington National Guard,” said Dewin on Wednesday. “One of the things he told me is:” Governor, you have people here, allows me to not have to work 14, 16 hours of days. “
Governor’s team said that Ohio soldiers in DC allow the police to fight crime using violence, while members of the National Guard patrol buildings.
“For me, this is a very good reason why we still have a guard to support the guard there,” said Dewine.
The governor stood on the basis of this decision because he said that he tends to accept each question of aid, as he did in the past for both republican and democratic leaders of other countries during natural disasters or mayors, when citizens’ bothers appear in Ohio cities.
“This is something that deserves additional control, especially in the way it is distributed and this extension is politicized,” said Weinstein.
Trump’s emergency declaration has just expired, but this does not change anything with the National Guard, as long as Dewine approved their distribution.
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