loading . . . 'We can do as we want': Trump boasts he can deploy troops to US cities however he likes Speaking to troops aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in Japan, President Donald Trump boasted that he can send any branch of Americaβs armed forces into U.S. cities as part of his anti-crime initiative β and that local residents wonβt care.
President Trump has faced a series of legal challenges over his efforts to deploy the National Guard to major U.S. cities, as Democratic governors and attorneys general have filed lawsuits to block the troops from entering their jurisdictions.
βYou know, people donβt care if we send in our military, if we send in our National Guard, if we send in Space Command, they donβt care who the hell it is,β Trump told troops aboard the USS George Washington in Yokosuka.
βThey just wanna be safe. And we have safe cities,β Trump insisted.
βNow weβre starting in Memphis, and Memphis was a disaster,β he said. βItβs been there, theyβve been there for two weeks, and itβs a whole different story.β
βCrime is less than half, and within a month itβll be gone,β the president claimed without offering any proof.
βGetting rid of all the bad ones, and weβre gonna go into Chicago, weβre gonna go into our cities, weβre gonna clean them out, weβre gonna straighten them out, and weβre gonna have safe cities, because you wanna protect safe cities,β he said.
βWeβre gonna have beautiful, safe, cities, and itβs happening very quickly and very easily, actually. Itβs easy for us. Itβs hard for them,β the president said.
βAnd we have to have a little more help. It doesnβt matter.β
βReally, we could do as we want to do, but it would be nice to have more help from some of the Democrat governors that donβt mind.β
Trump has deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, California, Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee. Courts have blocked the deployments in Portland and Chicago, according to The New York Times.
Most recently, Trump threatened to send the National Guard to San Francisco, but backed down after big tech leaders requested he hold off, NBC News had reported.
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