‘We have to save St. Louis’: Trump continues talks on potential National Guard deployment
ST. LOUIS - Following a violent weekend in St. Louis, resulting in two deaths and four injuries, President Donald Trump is maintaining his stance that the city needs the National Guard to fight crime.
“We got to save St. Louis,” Trump said at the Oval Office on Monday. “We have got to save these citizens.”
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), however, says they have not heard from the White House about National Guard deployment.
“We haven’t had those conversations,” said Mitch McCoy, SLMPD spokesperson. “There have been very brief conversations with the governor’s office, but that is limited to, ‘Hey, have you heard anything?’”
President Trump did not give a timeframe in which federal forces could be sent to the city. Last week on FOX News' FOX & Friends, Trump offered brief remarks on St. Louis while discussing his plans to send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime.
