US EditionTrump May Send National Guard To Chicago, He Says, Calling City 'A Disaster'
Trump targets Illinois' no cash bail policy and calls Chicago a "disaster" while federalizing DC police and deploying National Guard to address crime in the capital, threatening wider crackdowns.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump called Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker 'incompetent' and referred to his weight while announcing a federal takeover of the DC Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C.
- President Donald Trump criticized Illinois' 'no cash bail' policy, calling it a 'disaster' and pledging to change the Chicago statute.
- Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act enables Trump to take over the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and deploy nearly 800 National Guard troops.
- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker responded, `He has absolutely no right and no legal ability to send troops in to the city of Chicago` and added `And by the way, he cheats at golf too.`
- Under the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, legal experts say Trump lacks authority to deploy the military as a domestic police force, despite his threats to other cities.
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Capitol Fa - Your Illinois News Radar » Trump, Sims and Peters on the end of cash bailCapitolFax.com
* President Donald Trump yesterday… This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of [Washington, DC’s] local leadership. The radical left city council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster. That’s what started the problem in New York and [...]
Racist Chicago mayor says Trump sending National Guard will 'only serve to destabilize' his city · American Wire News
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is concerned that President Donald Trump taking action on rampant crime would “destabilize” his city. In a statement on Monday, Johnson lamented that the president cut funding for “violence prevention programs” in his city, saying that more direct measures to address crime would “destabilize” Chicago. “From my first day in office, public safety has been my top priority. In just two years, we have made historic progr…
President Donald Trump says that the governor of Illinois, J. B. Pritzker, is incompetent, that he could send the National Guard to Chicago and that he will work to reverse the end of the bail in cash.
Trump targets Illinois SAFE-T Act at press conference
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- At a press conference on Monday morning, President Trump criticized the Illinois SAFE-T Act that removed cash bail. "Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster," said Trump. "Someone murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out." The SAFE-T Act was an Illinois law passed in 2021 and amended in 2022. It created multiple reforms to the criminal justice system, which include…
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