Hundreds of Guard members who poured into Washington after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol have tested positive for Covid-19 or are quarantining in nearby hotels.
Already, hundreds of Guard members who poured into Washington, D.C., after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol have tested positive for Covid-19 or are quarantining in nearby hotels, three Guard sources said. Guard leadership has declined to release an official number of positive cases, but troops and lawmakers alike worry that the deployment is becoming a superspreader event.
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38 Capitol officers and 150 National Guardsmen test positive for COVID-19
Thirty-eight members of the U.S. Capitol Police force and about 150 National Guard members have tested positive for COVID-19 since responding to the deadly attack on the Capitol earlier this month, officials told CBS News.
More than 25,000 National Guard troops were deployed to Washington, D.C., in the wake of the attack, and photos showed the guardsmen resting in close quarters inside the Capitol building. More than half of the guardsmen will return home in the coming days
Excerpt from CBS.
President Trump gave thousands of National Guard troops permission to stay at his Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. after Capitol Police kicked them out of the Capitol Building.
On Thursday, 5,000 guardsmen and women brought in to protect Joe Biden’s inauguration were forced to take shelter in an underground parking garage after they were told to vacate the Capitol building.
The Difference between President Trump and Biden.
Apparently, the guardsmen who took Trump up on his offer of a place to stay in the Capitol were the ones vetted, outed, and immediately sent home. The shameful way they treated our Capitol defending troops shows the socialist/communist Marxist use of the term “Useful idiots” in full force of idiot led action. I hope the troops all retain long memories of how Nancy first used them as her personal prophylactic protection package against a well-earned social response to her Machiavellian political maneuverings, then tossed them aside like a used rubber destined for the basement septic tanks of Capitol COVID infection.
LETS HOPE< next time the guard gets asked to go into action, they tell these hacks, TO GO TO HELL!
Scruffy, there is simply NO comparison between those 2 men ! Biden, and the Democrat Party showed their TRUE colors, with the DISRESPECT shown the National Guard.
AND what’s the bet, THAT WAS WHY THEY WERE Shoved into tin can like buildings, to sleep.. SO IF ANYONE DID have covid, they could SPREAD IT to as many others as possible!
The last Democrat President that cared about our Troops was JFK, since then the Democrats have treated OUR troops like they were 2nd class citizens, no respect for them at all, none. The only time they care is Election time, as far as I am concerned, the Democrats are our Enemy.
If JFK was alive today, he would NOT be a Democrat, he would definitely be a Republican !
All one needs to know is 25,000 troops and one or two bathrooms. Our National Guard treated like dirt, in a cold parking structure in our own Country, by the elites in Washington. What a disgrace. Give me an airsick bag. Oh, I forgot, I will have to wear a mask when I vomit!
They were treated WORSE than illegal aliens get.
The left are masters of using the army which is mostly Republicans against other Patriots that are also Republicans…..than through away the army like used tampons….so who are the idiots?
That certainly makes me wonder, HOW MANY OF THOSE in the upper chains AT THOSE NATL GUARD commands, will REFUSE TO OBEY any other order to ‘GO IN” in the future.. IF ANY that is.
THIS is most likely one of the reasons that those dozen guardsmen “voiced their opinion”, and were told to “go home”. They were very smart in doing this. I wonder how many more of them did it, but the “biased news” did not report it.
‘Packed us together like sardines’
They have no respect nor concern for our military. For at least four years we will be subject to watching our military disrespected and used as pawns by the disgraceful worthless commie left.
Too bad the National Guard didn’t act and overthrow senile Joe and the street walker. They clearly had the numbers and even AOC said she was scared of them. Oh, but wait. Typical Army National Guard orders, no ammo and no bayonets. The National Guard wasted their time in the District of Corruption. They should’ve went home BEFORE senile Joe showed up to be sworn in. What are they going to do, kick them out of the Guard? With a dummycrat as commander in THIEF who would want to serve under this worthless piece of chicken poop.
Wilddog, why do you want to belittle chicken poop? It , at least, makes great fertilizer. Can’t say that about the commucrats!
The paranoid Dems hate the police and the military but can’t get enough of them to protect Democrats. At all other times, “off with their heads.”
So their half-baked plan: order an excessive number of troops, provide only primitive living accommodations, move them into a cold cold parking garage, then flick them off like yesterday’s garbage. No respect. No appreciation. No class.
Honestly, since the 50s, the left have had no respect for the military.. EVEN THEIR ‘honor the troops, after 9/11, was to me, faked.