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.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    This will not go the way they think it will.

    Putin and the HF is counting on civil unrest to occur. Depending on it. But they fail to realize this isn’t a North VS South thing.

    This is tyranny VS insurgency. Except the US is big. Extremely big. The population ~350m people.

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      14 hours ago

      Lots and lots of Americans are perfectly fine with tyranny, as long as they believe it is their tyranny being imposed. Also what does size have to do with anything?