President Donald Trump on Monday directed the National Guard to prepare for deeper involvement in any future civil unrest throughout the United States and called for the creation of a new military unit that is deputized to enforce federal laws, specifically in D.C.

The president issued the orders as he muses openly about deploying U.S. troops to other major U.S. cities and touts his efforts so far to assume greater federal control over the District, where more than 2,200 National Guard members have been mobilized to support an expansive - and polarizing - law enforcement mission. State and local leaders in some of those jurisdictions have decried the idea, portraying Trump’s domestic employment of the military as an “un-American” power grab.

In his executive order, Trump directed Defense

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