President Donald Trump is barreling forward with his administration’s heavy-handed efforts across the United States, in rather ominous and drastic ways.
In recent days alone, his administration has tried to skirt a Trump-nominated judge’s ruling against his use of the National Guard in Portland, Oregon. He’s attacked Democrats in speeches to military leaders and troops, even pitting generals and admirals against the blue side. He’s pressed forward with a Guard deployment to Chicago that the mayor and Illinois’s governor have rejected – and even said Wednesday that the mayor and governor should be “in jail.” And he’s now floating invoking the Insurrection Act, which hasn’t been used in decades and would give him more freedom in deploying the military domestically.
All of this despite no evidence of an actual insurrection or really even extraordinary levels of crime or violence in the cities at issue.
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