(20 Aug 2025)
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Washington – 20 August 2025
1. Olivia DiNucci speaking with a megaphone outside Union Station, holding a sign
2. Protester holding sign next to a national guard vehicle and personnel reading (English) "What Trump Order Won’t You Obey"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivia DiNucci, D.C. resident, protester:
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"They’re afraid. And what they think that they need to do is to clean up crime and to stand for democracy, is bringing in tanks and troops as they cut funding for health care and for housing. We are on the side of the people, we want occupation of no communities and we want to be investing in the very things that make communities thrive, and it’s not more military."
4. Various of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller arriving in Union Station, protesters shouting
5. Various of protesters chanting as Vance, Hegseth and Miller meet with troops in Union Station
6. Various of Vance and Hegseth departing Union Station, protesters chanting
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Enfield, D.C. resident, protester:
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"I feel like we are on the knife’s edge of a moment in history. We have the playbook. We have the fascist, tyrannical wannabe playbook. But we have the opportunity right now because we have the playbook, because we see what’s going on, because we know what they’re trying to do. We as the American public have a moment to stop this, to stand together and to resist. This story has not yet been written.""
STORYLINE:
Bringing prominent White House support to the streets of Washington, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday visited with National Guard troops at the city’s main train station as protesters chanted “free D.C.” — the latest tense interlude from President Donald Trump’s crackdown in the nation’s capital.
The appearance, which also included White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, was a striking scene that illustrated the Republican administration’s intense focus on the situation in Washington and its willingness to promote an initiative that has polarized the Democratic-led city.
An estimated 1,900 troops are being deployed in D.C. More than half are coming from Republican-led states. Besides Union Station, they’ve mostly been spotted around downtown areas, including the National Mall and metro stops.
"We’re here to say: from D.C. to Palestine, we are on the side of the people, we want occupation of no communities, and we want to be investing in the very things that make communities thrive, and it’s not more military," said Washington D.C. resident Olivia DiNucci, who took part in the protests.
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