Trump tells US troops he is ready to send 'more than the National Guard' into citieshttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-us-troops-he-is-ready-send-more-than-national-guard-into-cities-2025-10-28/ 🔗Reuters - October 28, 202510:39 PM MDT
U.S. President Donald Trump has told U.S. troops he was prepared to send "more than the National Guard" into U.S. cities if needed, in the latest demonstration of his willingness to escalate a confrontation with Democratic-led local governments that oppose the deployments.
"We have cities that are troubled ... and we're sending in our National Guard. And if we need more than the National Guard, we'll send more than the National Guard because we're going to have safe cities," Trump said.
Trump has left open the possibility that he might use the centuries-old Insurrection Act to deploy active duty troops for policing purposes and sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of Guard troops into American cities.
Under federal law, National Guard and other military troops are generally prohibited from conducting civilian law enforcement. But the Insurrection Act allows for an exception, giving troops the power to directly police and arrest people.
"If I want to enact a certain act I'm allowed to do it routinely. I'd be allowed to do whatever I want," Trump said in his remarks on Air Force One. "The courts wouldn't get involved, nobody would get involved. I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I can send anybody I wanted."---------------------------
Why is this important?
As previously reported,
"Using the language that he used and, most importantly, labeling left wing protestors as "insurrectionists," crossed a clear red line in civil-military relations. It is the Insurrection Act he seems keen to invoke, which would give him dictatorial-like powers like we've never seen used before in this country – not even in the civil war. The civil war was a war between states with militaries fighting on battlefields. A Trump-led deployment of federalized Guard and active-duty troops to quell a fabricated insurrection inside American cities, should only be understood as war on the American people."Source link can be found here:
https://www.susans.org/index.php?topic=250087.msg2316132#msg2316132With the mid-term elections coming up. this Administration has been working to attack the elections from many angles. CNN reported,
"While selling his new pitch to get rid of mail-in voting and voting machines, Trump included this remarkable pair of sentences.
"Remember, the States are merely an 'agent' for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes," the president wrote on Truth Social. "They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do." ... This is a rather novel take on the Constitution, to put it mildly."Source link can be found here:
https://www.susans.org/index.php?topic=250087.msg2313024#msg2313024Last June, thousands of National Guard and hundreds of U.S. Marines were deployed to Los Angeles "to protect federal property and personnel". The areas they protected were two one-block areas where protesters gathered. The ICE buildings were surrounded by law enforcement before troops arrived, and cities where troops have been deployed have reported a decrease in crime before the deployment. It would seem that deployments were unnecessary, as the Governor and Mayor claimed.
In Portland, Trump said he was "thinking about sending troops" there for the same reasons. He claimed the city was a "war zone" and the city was burning. Residents and city officials showed this was not true and filed a lawsuit to prevent the deployment.
In Chicago, the same situation arose. Complaints were filed with the court that ICE and federal agents (Border Patrol) were using chemical weapons against peaceful protesters and journalists. The judge in the case ordered that no tear gas, pepper rounds, or other such measures are to be used against peaceful protesters, except in cases of self-defense.
The Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino was caught on camera violating this order. As a result, the judge ordered him to appear in court to explain his actions. His claims of self-defense did not match the video evidence of the incidents. The judge then ordered Bovino to wear a body camera and to report to her daily about the ongoing situation in Chicago. (
https://news.wttw.com/2025/10/28/border-patrol-chief-greg-bovino-who-fired-tear-gas-little-village-crowd-set-face-federal 🔗)
What is clear from all of this is that this Administration will fabricate whatever narrative it needs to justify its use of force. It will ignore Constitutional rights, court orders, and laws to further its own agenda of maintaining control over the population. This is what dictators have done throughout history.
Now the Department of Justice has announced that it will send "election monitors" to certain counties in California and New Jersey. Governor Gavin Newsom (CA) said that he believes the intent is to intimidate voters and possibly reduce voter turnout. He has, in turn, announced that the state will deploy its own monitors to watch the federal election monitors.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/california-monitor-justice-department-election-watchers-rob-bonta-rcna240148 🔗We already know from the events of the Jan. 6th riot that the People can create an overwhelming disturbance when they get riled up. Obviously, Trump knows that too. He has repeated the lie over and over that he won the election against Biden and that the election system is rigged, despite many investigations that proved this is untrue.
Is this the real reason for sending troops to Democratic-led states against the wishes of the Democratic leaders? He could declare the elections as rigged, and when the People rise to have their votes counted and their voices heard, the military and federal police will already be in position to take control.
Keep paying attention.
