Pentagon official confirms plan as House minority leader Jeffries says president is ‘playing’ with Americans’ lives

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.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    You don’t say? Give the Democrats 6 more months and maybe they’ll finally have caught on to the fact that Trump is establishing a dictatorship. They might even start thinking about maybe saying something about it. Just in time for the part where they all get arrested and locked up, which means it will be too late.

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      Honestly if I were working to establish a dictatorship in the US I would keep them around, its always useful to have a fake opposition around in order to feign democracy and you couldn’t ask for a more oblivious and toothless opposition than the democrats.

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      I’m sure Cory Booker will stand in one spot for a very long time and Chuck Schumer is drafting a VERY stern letter as we speak.

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      You just need a couple more of them to reach across the aisle and find common ground with Republicans and then everything will turn out ok.