Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down

President Donald Trump said his administration is going to look at deploying the U.S. military to other American cities, including Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, at a press conference where he announced that he was taking federal control of the police department in Washington, D.C., and deploying 800 National Guard troops there to crack down on crime.

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“Then I’m going to look at New York, in a little while,” Trump said. “Let’s do this. Let’s do this together.”

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“If we need to, we’re gonna do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster,” Trump said. “We have a mayor there who is totally incompetent. He’s an incompetent man. and we have an incompetent governor there. {snip}”

After a tangent on the Los Angeles fires, Trump added: “Hopefully LA is watching.”

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