Missouri Lt. Governor David Wasinger joins the Morning Newswatch
Is the Missouri National Guard making a trip to St. Louis to help with crime?
Missouri Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger stopped by the Morning Newswatch and discussed that very subject with the crew.
Wasinger acknowledged that after the Ferguson riots, there was a “defund the police” movement in St. Louis that caused the city severe damage.
“We had a George Soros-appointed prosecutor in there, Kim Gardner did a generation of damage,” Wasinger said. “Our great Attorney General Andrew Bailey ended up kicking her out. And we just had a mayor that was a disaster in the city of St. Louis. Then we had Cori Bush as the congresswoman. … It’s been a disaster.”
While, there are rumblings of using the National Guard in St. Louis, or perhaps Kansas City, there are not any plans to use the guard in either city.
“People perceive this as just implementing the National Guard and coming in with the National Guard, but it’s a lot bigger than that,” Wasinger said. “So what we need to do is on a federal level, we need help in St. Louis and Kansas City. … This is getting federal resources to undo the damage that Cori Bush, Tishaura Jones, the George Soros appointed prosecutor Kim Gardner did to the city of St. Louis over the last 10 years since Ferguson.”
How do the changes happen? It’s not just with the National Guard showing up, Wasinger added. It will probably take federal assistance across the board—the National Guard, ICE, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of the Treasury.
“You need to dig yourself out a whole plateau where this is a manageable situation,” Wasinger said. “To the extent we can get a federal surge or help, not just National Guard …but get federal assistance across the board to get this crime under control both in St. Louis and Kansas City, and then you’re able to manage it. It’s not going to go away altogether, but you’re going to undo and dig yourself out of the hole that these left wing progressives … have done over the last 10 years.”
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