Trump Plans Military Invasion of Chicago, My Home Town

Trump is planning to send thousands of National Guard members and active-duty soldiers to invade Chicago, a Democratic city with 2.7 million residents.

As a person who lived and worked in Chicago for 35 years, I can say this is an egregious outrage that must be met with outright hostility. This is a horrific exercise of authoritarian power that must be met by protests, legal challenges and support from other Democratic cities.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said, “What the President is proposing would be the most flagrant violation of our Constitution in the 21st Century. The City of Chicago does not need a military occupation.”

Johnson said that Trump’s approach was “uncoordinated, uncalled for, and unsound” and that “unlawfully deploying” the National Guard to Chicago could “inflame tensions between residents and law enforcement.”

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said, “After using Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. as his testing ground for authoritarian overreach, Trump is now openly flirting with the idea of taking over other states and cities,” Pritzker said. “Trump’s goal is to incite fear in our communities and destabilize existing public safety efforts — all to create a justification to abuse his power further.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as Trump says he wants to crack down on supposed “crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration.”

The secret planning involves mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September to the third most populous city in the United States.

The Chicago effort would further expand Trump’s use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted. Administration officials deceitfully claim that they are taking necessary steps to bring back law and order.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent,” Trump said, in remarks that Chicago’s leaders immediately dismissed as unfounded. “And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after this. And it won’t even be tough,” Trump said.

The officials familiar with the matter said that a military intervention will include expanded terror operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to search for undocumented migrants.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, hit back at Trump in comments Friday, with the governor accusing Trump of attempting to “create chaos.”

Johnson said in a separate statement that Chicago officials take Trump’s statements seriously, but that they have not received any formal communication from the Trump administration.

Pritzker added that there is “no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active-duty military within our own borders.”

Trump has long described major U.S. cities as lawless, Democratic-run failures, fixating on Chicago in particular. During his first presidential campaign in 2016, he called off a political rally there before he took the stage after fights broke out between his supporters and political opponents.

Source: ABC7 Chicago

“You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is,” Trump said. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore. They’re so, so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen.”

A state’s governor generally oversees his own National Guard, but the President can federalize and deploy troops over objections under Title 10 of federal law. It permits the President to issue orders to National Guard members if there is a “rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the government.”

A president can also invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty troops to perform law enforcement duties in the U.S. Still, such an act would be politically polarizing and trigger alarm in the Pentagon. Trump flirted with the idea in 2020, during unrest following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The California deployment was contested in court, with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and other officials questioning whether Trump had violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from carrying out civilian law enforcement actions. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Trump’s orders violated the law, but his decision was halted by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco.


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2 thoughts on “Trump Plans Military Invasion of Chicago, My Home Town”

  1. It’s not about crime.

    The felon/rapist/pedo con man in the White House is deploying troops to Democratically controlled US cities in preparation for a military takeover of the next election.

    Along with the military, Jeff Epstein’s BFF pardoned violent J6’ers including a few pedo’s and rapists, a signal to his supporters that they can do whatever it takes to keep him in office, so expect violence leading up to and on Election Day to be encouraged.

    Noam Chomsky has been saying the USA is a fascist state for decades, and Margaret Atwood has said all along that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is not a future sci-fi story, it’s about the world as it is now.

    SCOTUS will not save us, Corporate Dems will not save us, “sane Republicans” will not save us (there are none), and the media is complicit because they are corporate owned and corporations like fascism.

    Anyone who thinks I’m out there where the buses don’t run has not been paying attention.

    Do not submit in advance.

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