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"Planning is underway to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at
the Pentagon confirmed to
ABC News on Sunday.
“We won’t speculate on further operations. The Department is a planning
organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to
protect federal assets and personnel,” a Department of Defense official said,
according to
ABC.
Earlier on Sunday, Hakeem Jeffries, House minority leader and New York
Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump has “manufactured a crisis” to
justify sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago next, over the
heads of local leaders.
Jeffries, appearing on
CNN’s
State of the Union, accused the US president
of “playing games with the lives of Americans” with his unprecedented domestic
deployment of the military, which has escalated to include the arming of troops
currently patrolling Washington, DC – after sending troops into Los Angeles in
June.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said any such plan from Trump was
perpetrating “the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st
century”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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