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.

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    Create chaos to justify a martial law. And then going all in with death and destruction to stomp any revolt. That’s dictatorship 101

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      My money is on starting a war with Venezuela being the spark that starts the revolt which enables him to crush everyone with the military :/

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        Yeah Canada was too obvious and failed miserably. Venezuela is a perfect target, “communist”, full of oil. It’s mad how clear their plan is, and everyone just follows along, instead of calling them out.