Blue-state governors are sounding the alarm that an increasingly “authoritarian” President Donald Trump has designs to disrupt upcoming elections with military assets. J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, is exhorting Americans to treat Trump’s stated goals for deploying the National Guard to blue cities like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and …
Read More »Pentagon Has Been Planning Military Takeover of Chicago for Weeks as Trump Threatens Baltimore
The Pentagon has been planning to send the military to Chicago for weeks, The Washington Post reported. The deployment would be part of Donald Trump‘s show of force against Democrat-run cities. The military’s actions in Chicago could then be a blueprint for rolling out similar occupations in other cities, officials …
Read More »Pritzker Calls Trump's Threat to Target Chicago Next 'An Authoritarian Grab of Major Cities'
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker blasted President Donald Trump after he threatened on Friday to target Chicago as the next city to send federal troops to, purportedly to fight crime, as he has done in other Democratic strongholds. Trump has deployed nearly 2,000 National Guard members in his current campaign in …
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