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.
That’s crazy
Release the Epstein files
It ain’t happening. They already stopped caring. So have most people.
We all knew it would go away, but it should serve as a pretty profound reminder that we don’t have rule of law anymore, and we have the exact same fucking situation that we declared independence as a nation from. The SAME thing.
I don’t think so, actually. This is Trump’s Benghazi. The coverup is worse than the crime. What is Trump hiding? We can hit him with his own conspiracy theory