President Donald Trump’s administration has not asked the Maine National Guard to join several states’ units in deploying to Washington, D.C., as part of the Republican’s takeover of law enforcement operations in the nation’s capital.

More than 2,000 National Guard troops from Republican-led states, including West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi, have been patrolling Washington’s streets after Trump issued earlier in August his order to take command of the city’s police operations.

Trump gave the directive after the alleged assault of a former Department of Government Efficiency staffer and made misleading claims about violence in the city despite its violent crime rate being at a 30-year low . On Tuesday, he said his administration will s

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