Overview

• More than 2,200 National Guard members are stationed in Washington, and some have been armed on patrol since Sunday.
• The decree also directs the hiring of additional federal prosecutors and U.S. Park Police and restricts pretrial-release options in the capital.
• Pentagon-directed training will prepare Guard troops from other states for potential nationwide deployments to respond to unrest.
• The House Oversight Committee led by Chairman James Comer opened an inquiry into whether D.C. police manipulated crime statistics, citing a whistleblower.
• Trump suggested Americans might “like a dictator” before insisting he is not one, and he has threatened similar interventions in Democratic-led cities including Chicago, New York and Baltimore.