August 25, 2025 • 11 mins
Debunking Media Bias: How Trump's National Guard Deployment Was Misrepresented
In this episode, we dissect how the media portrayed President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to curb crime in Washington D.C. Contrary to reports painting it as militarization and scare tactics, the presence of the Guard significantly reduced violent crime. They did it in Washington DC and they can do it in Chicago and Baltimore, despite the claims of Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
The episode also highlights hypocrisy around the National Guard's use, pointing out that Democrats only object when Republicans are in power, yet demanded their deployment on January 6.
Guardsmen have historically protected citizens' rights in various critical situations like the Little Rock Nine. The Democrats were on the wrong side than as they are now. They concentrate on accusations of "abuse of power", "occupation", "militarization" and depict the assistance of the guard as a "threat"
Learn the facts behind the headlines and understand the real implications of deploying the National Guard for domestic safety.
00:00 Introduction: Media's Portrayal of National Guard Deployment
00:52 The Role and Authority of the National Guard
01:46 Media's Double Standards and Political Spin
03:36 Impact of National Guard on Crime Rates
08:53 Historical Context and Political Hypocrisy
10:15 Conclusion: The Real Abuse of Power
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Kevin Travis-1 (00:14):
The fake news reports, not that the National
Guard protected families andbusinesses, but that Trump
declared martial law becausenothing says dictatorship.
Like, no homicides for a weektoday on the 10th, man.
(00:35):
a new phase of President Trump'scrackdown on crime in
Washington.
It comes as the presidentthreatens to send troops into
other big cities.
The media reported not that Trump restored
order in Washington and stoppedmurders cold, but that he
militarized the city.
And before we dive in, make sureyou hit subscribe and give this
video a like.
It tells YouTube this is worthwatching and helps us bring more
(00:58):
facts straight to you.
Now let's talk about that wordthreatened because the truth is
the only people threatened bythe guard's presence were the
criminals.
Starting with the basics.
The National Guard is supposedto be a stabilizing force.
They get called up for riots,for natural disasters, and for
national emergencies.
(01:19):
Governors usually deploy them,but in Washington DC there is no
governor.
That means the President hasmore direct authority there.
When Trump deployed guard troopsto restore order in the capitol,
the media didn't frame it asprotection.
They framed it as provocation.
And when he talked aboutpossibly sending them to other
(01:39):
cities like Chicago orBaltimore, a, b, C said he
threatens to send troops.
He's not offering help.
He's not committing to restoringorder.
It's always he threatens.
Trump also threatening to sendtroops to Baltimore.
Maryland's governor has invitedthe president to visit the city.
He claims Trump is engaging inscare tactics.
(02:03):
And here's the hypocrisy.
Democrats only hate the guardwhen Republicans call them.
During the George Floyd riots of2020, Democrat mayors begged for
guard units once their citiesstarted burning outta control.
On January 6th, the sameDemocrats blasted Trump for not
deploying the guard fast enough,although he did deploy them.
(02:25):
At Biden's inauguration,Democrats demanded 25,000 Guard
troops plus fences and razorwire around the capitol.
Was that militarization becausethey didn't call that
occupation.
They called that defendingdemocracy.
Same troops, same uniforms, andsame handguns, just a different
spin.
(02:45):
But under Trump, everythingflipped overnight.
Lafayette Square, June, 2020Guard troops clearing rioters
were called Militarization ofWashington.
Operation Legend in PortlandGuard deployments were painted
as storm troopers, and whenGovernor Abbott of Texas used
guard troops along the border,Democrats dismissed it as a
(03:07):
political stunt.
It was never the guard theyobjected to.
It was who gave the order.
Back to ABC's morning show.
more than 2200 National Guardtroops deployed as part of
President Trump's recentcrackdown on crime in Washington
DC are now armed.
They warned that guard troops in DC were now
(03:28):
armed, as if that were shocking,as if Tim Walz hadn't told us
about him carrying weapons ofwar.
Of course they were armed.
We ought to be wondering whythey were not armed from the get
go.
Protectors have to be armed.
Even in Japan, the police carryweapons.
Soldiers without weapons aren'ta peacekeeping force.
(03:49):
They're actually a parade.
And here's what they didn'temphasize.
The guard's presence worked.
Before they came in, Washington,DC was averaging a murder every
two days.
And it wasn't just homicides.
Robberies were spiking orsurging.
Carjackings were a daily threat.
(04:10):
Assaults and shootings were apart of everyday life in the
capitol of the United States.
And after the guard arrived,murder stopped.
Violent crime plummeted.
And even the city's policechief, a political appointee,
admitted safety had improved.
The Trump administration istouting more than 700 arrests so
(04:31):
far, and the local police chiefacknowledges federal agents have
made safety improvements.
That's the real story, and that's what should
have led the headlines, thenation's capitol restored to its
citizens.
But the media stuck to theirscript.
It was a show of force, a threatto democracy and abuse of power.
(04:54):
It's words, always misleadingwords for the Democrats and the
media.
While the facts of safer streetsare brushed aside, DC Mayor
Muriel Bowser, for example, saidguard members were being hauled
from their homes, their jobs,and their families,
I think calling men and womenfrom their homes and their jobs
(05:17):
and their families, um, theyhave to be used on the, you
know, on mission specific itemsthat benefit the nation.
but that's in fact what the job is.
Citizen soldiers know they maybe called to leave civilian life
to serve at any time.
They're not being exploited.
(05:37):
That's what service is.
Then came the phrase abuse ofpower.
But Democrats claim thePresident is abusing his power
by declaring a crime emergencyin DC
democrats use that for everything.
It's just become filler.
It's really now no more than aslogan.
It's not an argument.
(05:58):
And what about that tired claimthat crime in DC is at a 30 year
low?
the President is abusing hispower by declaring a crime
emergency.
In DC when police data claim,violent crime was already at a
30 year low.
Well, the reason it's tired in the first place is
because that's the only thingthey've been saying.
(06:19):
Because yes, crime in DC wasdown compared to its own
Disastrous past.
Its own past, but it was stillone of the most dangerous cities
in the nation.
In fact, in the world.
And Democrats, you can't have itboth ways.
Because when they push guncontrol, they call crime an
epidemic.
(06:41):
But when Trump cracks down in acity where crime is one of the
worst in the country, then theytell us crime isn't a problem.
So which one is it?
So when Trump talked aboutsending guard troops to Chicago
and Baltimore, the media saidagain, he threatens.
Governors called it scaretactics.
(07:01):
The reason that I've asked thepresident to come and join us is
because he seems to enjoy livingin this blissful ignorance.
This, these tropes in these 1980scare tactics.
But let's be honest, if any cities could
benefit from stronger lawenforcement, it's Chicago and
Baltimore.
Chicago recorded more than 770homicides in 2020.
(07:26):
My goodness, that's over twokillings a day.
Baltimore, a much smaller city,still logged around 330 murders
that same year, almost one aday.
That's one of the highesthomicide rates in the country.
The parents in those citiesdon't need word games.
(07:46):
What they need are safe streets.
They need the sametransformation Washington saw
when the guard stepped in.
Calling it scare tactics missesthe point and quite
deliberately.
Because a credible threat deterscrime.
And if governors don't wantTrump involved, they don't have
(08:09):
to sit on their hands.
As we said before, Trump doesn'thave authority to deploy the
National Guard in the States,but the governors do.
The governors already have fullauthority to activate their own
guard units as law enforcement.
And if they won't use thatauthority, then they're not
(08:29):
protecting their people, whichis their job.
And don't let anyone tell youthat guard only defends a nation
overseas.
That's false.
The guard has always been calledto protect Americans at home in
a variety of situations.
They respond after hurricanes.
They back up police duringriots.
(08:50):
They patrol after tornadoes.
My father-in-law did exactlythat in 1953 after the Beecher
tornado in Flint, Michigan.
He left home, put on the uniformand stood wash to keep order in
a destroyed town.
And he wasn't unarmed.
He was carrying an M1 with fixedbayonet.
And sometimes the guard steps inwhen local leaders won't, and
(09:14):
that's when the history booksget written.
In 1957, president Eisenhowersent federal troops to Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Why?
Because the Democrat governortried to block nine black
students from entering a publicschool.
The Army ensured those childrencould exercise their
constitutional rights.
(09:36):
In 1962, President Kennedy sentthem to Mississippi.
Another Democrat segregationistgovernor tried to defy the
courts and keep James Meredithfrom enrolling at Ole Miss.
But the guard and federal troopscleared the path.
Both times, then, as nowDemocrats screamed abuse of
(09:57):
power.
Both times local jurisdictionsresisted.
And both times history provedthe federal duty was clear,
protect citizens' rights, evenwhen some politicians stood in
the way.
Democrats were on the wrongside, then; they're on the wrong
side now.
(10:19):
The only difference wasn't themission, it was the politics.
The National Guard hasn'tchanged.
Their mission hasn't changed.
The only thing that's changed isthe script.
Democrats and the media throwwords around like threat, scare
tactic, and abuse of power.
Not to describe the actualreality, but to shape your
(10:43):
perception of it.
They treat results asintimidation and safety as if
it's oppression, but mealy mouthwords don't stop criminals.
Words don't protect families orkeep businesses open.
But the National Guard sure can.
(11:04):
And when politicians valuerhetoric over safety, that's the
real abuse of power.
So if you found this breakdownuseful, share it with a friend.
That's how we spread facts widerthan the spin.
This is the 10th Man podcast.
With the arguments themainstream media hopes you'll
never hear.
(11:25):
Because if an old retiree canfind out the truth and broadcast
it from his family room, thenwhy can't the mainstream media?
Thank you for listening.
I.
The fake news reports, not that the National
Guard protected families andbusinesses, but that Trump
declared martial law becausenothing says dictatorship.
Like, no homicides for a weektoday on the 10th, man.
(00:35):
a new phase of President Trump'scrackdown on crime in
Washington.
It comes as the presidentthreatens to send troops into
other big cities.
The media reported not that Trump restored
order in Washington and stoppedmurders cold, but that he
militarized the city.
And before we dive in, make sureyou hit subscribe and give this
video a like.
It tells YouTube this is worthwatching and helps us bring more
(00:58):
facts straight to you.
Now let's talk about that wordthreatened because the truth is
the only people threatened bythe guard's presence were the
criminals.
Starting with the basics.
The National Guard is supposedto be a stabilizing force.
They get called up for riots,for natural disasters, and for
national emergencies.
(01:19):
Governors usually deploy them,but in Washington DC there is no
governor.
That means the President hasmore direct authority there.
When Trump deployed guard troopsto restore order in the capitol,
the media didn't frame it asprotection.
They framed it as provocation.
And when he talked aboutpossibly sending them to other
(01:39):
cities like Chicago orBaltimore, a, b, C said he
threatens to send troops.
He's not offering help.
He's not committing to restoringorder.
It's always he threatens.
Trump also threatening to sendtroops to Baltimore.
Maryland's governor has invitedthe president to visit the city.
He claims Trump is engaging inscare tactics.
(02:03):
And here's the hypocrisy.
Democrats only hate the guardwhen Republicans call them.
During the George Floyd riots of2020, Democrat mayors begged for
guard units once their citiesstarted burning outta control.
On January 6th, the sameDemocrats blasted Trump for not
deploying the guard fast enough,although he did deploy them.
(02:25):
At Biden's inauguration,Democrats demanded 25,000 Guard
troops plus fences and razorwire around the capitol.
Was that militarization becausethey didn't call that
occupation.
They called that defendingdemocracy.
Same troops, same uniforms, andsame handguns, just a different
spin.
(02:45):
But under Trump, everythingflipped overnight.
Lafayette Square, June, 2020Guard troops clearing rioters
were called Militarization ofWashington.
Operation Legend in PortlandGuard deployments were painted
as storm troopers, and whenGovernor Abbott of Texas used
guard troops along the border,Democrats dismissed it as a
(03:07):
political stunt.
It was never the guard theyobjected to.
It was who gave the order.
Back to ABC's morning show.
more than 2200 National Guardtroops deployed as part of
President Trump's recentcrackdown on crime in Washington
DC are now armed.
They warned that guard troops in DC were now
(03:28):
armed, as if that were shocking,as if Tim Walz hadn't told us
about him carrying weapons ofwar.
Of course they were armed.
We ought to be wondering whythey were not armed from the get
go.
Protectors have to be armed.
Even in Japan, the police carryweapons.
Soldiers without weapons aren'ta peacekeeping force.
(03:49):
They're actually a parade.
And here's what they didn'temphasize.
The guard's presence worked.
Before they came in, Washington,DC was averaging a murder every
two days.
And it wasn't just homicides.
Robberies were spiking orsurging.
Carjackings were a daily threat.
(04:10):
Assaults and shootings were apart of everyday life in the
capitol of the United States.
And after the guard arrived,murder stopped.
Violent crime plummeted.
And even the city's policechief, a political appointee,
admitted safety had improved.
The Trump administration istouting more than 700 arrests so
(04:31):
far, and the local police chiefacknowledges federal agents have
made safety improvements.
That's the real story, and that's what should
have led the headlines, thenation's capitol restored to its
citizens.
But the media stuck to theirscript.
It was a show of force, a threatto democracy and abuse of power.
(04:54):
It's words, always misleadingwords for the Democrats and the
media.
While the facts of safer streetsare brushed aside, DC Mayor
Muriel Bowser, for example, saidguard members were being hauled
from their homes, their jobs,and their families,
I think calling men and womenfrom their homes and their jobs
(05:17):
and their families, um, theyhave to be used on the, you
know, on mission specific itemsthat benefit the nation.
but that's in fact what the job is.
Citizen soldiers know they maybe called to leave civilian life
to serve at any time.
They're not being exploited.
(05:37):
That's what service is.
Then came the phrase abuse ofpower.
But Democrats claim thePresident is abusing his power
by declaring a crime emergencyin DC
democrats use that for everything.
It's just become filler.
It's really now no more than aslogan.
It's not an argument.
(05:58):
And what about that tired claimthat crime in DC is at a 30 year
low?
the President is abusing hispower by declaring a crime
emergency.
In DC when police data claim,violent crime was already at a
30 year low.
Well, the reason it's tired in the first place is
because that's the only thingthey've been saying.
(06:19):
Because yes, crime in DC wasdown compared to its own
Disastrous past.
Its own past, but it was stillone of the most dangerous cities
in the nation.
In fact, in the world.
And Democrats, you can't have itboth ways.
Because when they push guncontrol, they call crime an
epidemic.
(06:41):
But when Trump cracks down in acity where crime is one of the
worst in the country, then theytell us crime isn't a problem.
So which one is it?
So when Trump talked aboutsending guard troops to Chicago
and Baltimore, the media saidagain, he threatens.
Governors called it scaretactics.
(07:01):
The reason that I've asked thepresident to come and join us is
because he seems to enjoy livingin this blissful ignorance.
This, these tropes in these 1980scare tactics.
But let's be honest, if any cities could
benefit from stronger lawenforcement, it's Chicago and
Baltimore.
Chicago recorded more than 770homicides in 2020.
(07:26):
My goodness, that's over twokillings a day.
Baltimore, a much smaller city,still logged around 330 murders
that same year, almost one aday.
That's one of the highesthomicide rates in the country.
The parents in those citiesdon't need word games.
(07:46):
What they need are safe streets.
They need the sametransformation Washington saw
when the guard stepped in.
Calling it scare tactics missesthe point and quite
deliberately.
Because a credible threat deterscrime.
And if governors don't wantTrump involved, they don't have
(08:09):
to sit on their hands.
As we said before, Trump doesn'thave authority to deploy the
National Guard in the States,but the governors do.
The governors already have fullauthority to activate their own
guard units as law enforcement.
And if they won't use thatauthority, then they're not
(08:29):
protecting their people, whichis their job.
And don't let anyone tell youthat guard only defends a nation
overseas.
That's false.
The guard has always been calledto protect Americans at home in
a variety of situations.
They respond after hurricanes.
They back up police duringriots.
(08:50):
They patrol after tornadoes.
My father-in-law did exactlythat in 1953 after the Beecher
tornado in Flint, Michigan.
He left home, put on the uniformand stood wash to keep order in
a destroyed town.
And he wasn't unarmed.
He was carrying an M1 with fixedbayonet.
And sometimes the guard steps inwhen local leaders won't, and
(09:14):
that's when the history booksget written.
In 1957, president Eisenhowersent federal troops to Little
Rock, Arkansas.
Why?
Because the Democrat governortried to block nine black
students from entering a publicschool.
The Army ensured those childrencould exercise their
constitutional rights.
(09:36):
In 1962, President Kennedy sentthem to Mississippi.
Another Democrat segregationistgovernor tried to defy the
courts and keep James Meredithfrom enrolling at Ole Miss.
But the guard and federal troopscleared the path.
Both times, then, as nowDemocrats screamed abuse of
(09:57):
power.
Both times local jurisdictionsresisted.
And both times history provedthe federal duty was clear,
protect citizens' rights, evenwhen some politicians stood in
the way.
Democrats were on the wrongside, then; they're on the wrong
side now.
(10:19):
The only difference wasn't themission, it was the politics.
The National Guard hasn'tchanged.
Their mission hasn't changed.
The only thing that's changed isthe script.
Democrats and the media throwwords around like threat, scare
tactic, and abuse of power.
Not to describe the actualreality, but to shape your
(10:43):
perception of it.
They treat results asintimidation and safety as if
it's oppression, but mealy mouthwords don't stop criminals.
Words don't protect families orkeep businesses open.
But the National Guard sure can.
(11:04):
And when politicians valuerhetoric over safety, that's the
real abuse of power.
So if you found this breakdownuseful, share it with a friend.
That's how we spread facts widerthan the spin.
This is the 10th Man podcast.
With the arguments themainstream media hopes you'll
never hear.
(11:25):
Because if an old retiree canfind out the truth and broadcast
it from his family room, thenwhy can't the mainstream media?
Thank you for listening.
I.
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