Donald Trump has been accused of “turning the military on American citizens” after a Pentagon official confirmed that planning is under way to send National Guard troops to Chicago.
Illinois attorney-general Kwame Raoul also told CBS News that the president’s actions are both “un-American” and “unwise strategically”.
Accusing the president of “turning our military on American citizens in his ongoing attempts to move our nation toward authoritarianism,” he added:
His actions are not just un-American. They are unwise strategically. Our cities are not made safer by deploying the nation’s service members for civilian law enforcement duties when they do not have the appropriate training.
To be clear: We have made no such request for the type of federal intervention we have seen in Los Angeles or Washington DC. There is no emergency in the state of Illinois.
“Accused” is funny when you can go outside and talk to the military in question deployed in front of your home.
My grandma lives in DC. I’m so disappointed that she has to witness America doing this at the end of her life.
Well, she’s either seen people her age enabling this her whole life or been enabling it her whole life. Either way it shouldn’t be much of a surprise.
Yurp. The US just went from 80% fascist hellscape to 90% fascist hellscape. Nobody has ever lived in a just and democratic USA.
My grandmother (granted we live in Canada) is in denial and treats me like I’m joking when I talk about what’s happening in America. She was pretty much gaslighting me when the Jan 6 attack happened