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Crime-filled US mostly opposes Trump’s use of army in Washington DC

US polls show the National Guard deployment into the capital city is already opposed by a significant majority.

Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Washington DC

In the United States, crime, violence and physical insecurity are often just accepted as a sad fact of the nation’s culture. It’s not known if President Donald Trump’s threats of a nationwide deployment of the National Guard could be a solution, but polls show the deployment is already opposed by a significant majority.