US Edition‘Maybe we like a dictator’: Donald Trump denies being one, says, ‘I'm a man with great common sense’
Trump signed executive orders to strengthen law enforcement and deploy 2,000 National Guard troops to reduce crime in Democratic-led cities despite criticism.
- On Monday in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump denied being a dictator, saying `Maybe we like a dictator`, and signed executive orders on flag-burning and cashless bail.
- Citing rising disorder, Trump said federal measures were needed because of surging violent crime, homelessness and lawlessness, deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles in June and taking control in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.
- The president backed his rhetoric with orders and numbers, noting an executive order on flag-burning and nearly 2,000 National Guard members in Washington, plus the initial 800 called up and troops from six Republican-led states.
- Local and state leaders have pushed back, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and Mayor Brandon Scott opposing deployments and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calling Trump "a wannabe dictator"; Trump said, "You send them, and instead of being praised, they're saying, 'you're trying to take over the Republic.'"
- Trump signaled expansion to other cities, naming Chicago and Baltimore, with actions uncommon since the 1992 Los Angeles riots and recalling his prior remark he would be a 'dictator on day one.
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Donald Trump claims Americans 'would like a dictator' in chilling new statement - The Mirror
Donald Trump has been attacked for his federal clampdown on Washington DC by sending in National Guard troops to support law enforcement with critics calling it an "authoritarian takeover"
Trump suggests many Americans ’like a dictator’
US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested many Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to prosecute flag-burners. During a rambling 80-minute event in the Oval Office, Trump lambasted critics and the media as he complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration. "They say 'we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. He…
White liberal denial meets black reality
I know what it’s like to live in the neighborhoods white liberals only mention when it suits them. I’ve lived on the South Side of Chicago. I’ve lived in Southeast D.C. I’ve seen crime with my own eyes, and I’ve experienced the fear that comes with it.I’ve walked streets where parents teach their kids to drop at the sound of gunfire. I’ve seen drug corners where police barely bother to show up because they know the system won’t back them. And I’…
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