More Republican governors have announced they’re dispatching National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to assist President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital. The additional forces from Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee bring the total number of National Guard troops deployed to D.C. to over 1,800. Vermont’s Republican Governor Phil Scott has declined a federal request to send his state’s National Guard soldiers.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports the White House has dispatched social media teams alongside FBI agents executing arrest warrants to generate videos promoting Trump’s crackdown on D.C. The practice violates long-standing Justice Department norms against politicizing criminal investigations. The social media teams filmed and edited a video showing the arrest of Sean Charles Dunn, a Justice Department employee who was fired and charged with assault after he shouted “fascists!” at federal agents and hurled a Subway sandwich at one of them. A video of Dunn’s arrest posted on X has garnered 2.4 million views. Trump’s hand-picked interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., former Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, celebrated Dunn’s arrest.

Jeanine Pirro: “And then he took a Subway sandwich about this big and took it and threw it at the officer. He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer. And we’re going to back the police to the hilt.”