{"id":135046,"date":"2025-08-22T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135046"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:16:54","slug":"us-troops-in-washington-to-be-armed-as-trump-escalates-policing-roleunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135046","title":{"rendered":"US troops in Washington to be armed, as Trump escalates policing roleUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump\u2019s law enforcement crackdown will start carrying firearms, the Pentagon said on Friday.<br \/>\nThe Defence Department did not offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed.<br \/>\nThe step is an escalation in Trump\u2019s intervention into policing in the nation\u2019s capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3322889\/national-guard-troops-washington-be-armed-trump-escalates-policing-role?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump\u2019s law&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}