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

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.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 day ago

    What Trump is “manufacturing”, is a civil war. He has already taken steps to fortify his position in DC, and is now planning to invade several cities / States that he deems a potential threat to his rule.

    If any of his actions are met with resistance, he will simply invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law across the entire country, fully activating the US military in the process. At the end of the day, they can either go along with it willingly, or he will take what he wants by force. Checkmate, Libruls.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      5·
      1 day ago

      And once he declared Martial Law, he will suspend elections. Remember how excitedly he leaped on Zelensky’s mention of suspending elections in his country?

      The MAGA Nazis are spending a lot of time thinking about this. They don’t ever intend on leaving. It will take a LOT of violence to dislodge them.