The Trump administration announced plans to send the National Guard into Memphis, the third city that National Guardsmen have been ordered into.

Trump announced plans to send the National Guard to Memphis while on an interview with Fox News on Friday.

“We’re going to Memphis. I’m just announcing that now, and we’ll straighten that out — National Guard and anybody else we need. And by the way, we’ll bring in the military, too, if we need it,” he said. The deployment will be to address crime in the city.

The announcement marks a change in plans for Trump’s claims of where he would next order the military. Trump had repeatedly threatened to send in the National Guard to Chicago for weeks, which he had repeatedly threatened to do for weeks. No date has been announced for when troops would a

See Full Page