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Santo Domingo,.- The U.S. President, Donald Trump, requested to the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, the incorporation of 500 members of the National Guard to reinforce security in Washington, after the attack this Wednesday against two members of this body who are in critical condition.
"President Trump has asked me, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army of the National Guard, that we add 500 additional troops, national guardsmen, to Washington D.C. This will only reinforce our determination to ensure that Washington D.C. is a safe and beautiful place. The decrease in crime has been historic", Hegseth told the press in Santo Domingo, after a meeting with the Dominican president, Luis Abinader.
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The high-ranking official stated that "the increase in security" in the American capital is "historic", but that if criminals want to commit "violent acts like this, against the best of the United States, we will never give in". "(The attack) will only reinforce our determination; we will never yield. We will protect our capital, we will protect our cities. In fact, this happened a few steps from the White House. It will not be tolerated," hammered Hegseth. The two National Guard agents who were shot this Wednesday near the White House remain in critical condition and have not died, the authorities rectified after having given them up for dead. FBI Director Kash Patel announced at a press conference at the scene that the two national guardsmen are still alive, although they are hospitalized "in critical condition" and asked for a prayer for them. Patrick Morrisey, governor of West Virginia, the state of the two victims, had announced on social media that both had died, but then corrected himself and said he had received "contradictory information". The two National Guard agents were hospitalized after being injured in a shooting near the White House in which the attacker was also injured, arrested, and hospitalized. "President Trump will never concede. That's why the American people elected him. The United States and our warriors, our National Guard, are strong. So we are following this very closely (...) I ask for prayers for our National Guard," Hegseth expressed. The Secretary of War announced today, along with the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, that his country will use areas of two airports near Santo Domingo for the transport of equipment and technical personnel for its plan to combat drug trafficking in the Caribbean. The United States has deployed a large-scale military operation in the region with the destruction of several boats that, it claims, came from South America with the intention of introducing drugs into the North American country.
