BOSTON (SHNS) - Gov. Maura Healey said she sees President Donald Trump’s recent deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities as "political theater" and warned against using Massachusetts troops in the same way.

Asked Wednesday what she would do if Trump sent the guard to Massachusetts, Healey responded: "I don't know why he would."

"To put the guard on the streets in a way they were never intended to be used — domestically against our own citizens — that's not what the guard is supposed to be doing. That is not the mission, nor do I think it is the mission that the good men and women of the guard signed up for," Healey said Wednesday in downtown Boston at a discussion moderated by Bloomberg News Head of the Americas Caroline Gage.

Trump this week announced plans to send troops to

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