Too bad for him. He has to stop doing some nonsense he started way back last summer, and you know the ketchup has to be flying for this one! People in the White House should run until his temper tantrum is done. Taking his phone would be a good idea, too, if they dared to get close to him. With thanks and giggles, Raw Story:
The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from three Democratic-led cities after a string of legal defeats. The withdrawal was finalized late last month but was not publicly acknowledged by the White House or the Pentagon despite President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth staking much political capital on the deployments, including more than 5,000 troops to Los Angeles, about 500 in Chicago, and 200 in Portland, Oregon, reported the Washington Post. “More than 2,500 National Guard members remain in Washington, D.C., in response to Trump’s ordered deployment, but under a nonfederal status,” the Post reported. “Their mission — part crackdown on crime and part sanitation duty — is expected to last until the end of the year.
Good grief!!! The Guard is doing sanitation duty. What the hell is this crap? They have to clean Washington, D.C. Clean! That’s not what the Guard is there for! There are other ways to do that at probably a lower cost than the Guard. Yes, this is irrational, but DAMN, sanitation duty! What an insult. They’re only there for a crackdown on crime (read: patrols) and picking up garbage.
Additionally, there is an ongoing Guard presence in Memphis and New Orleans, but those missions, while funded by the federal government under a novel agreement with the Trump administration, are overseen by each state’s governor.” The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order in December blocking the president from deploying troops to Chicago because the justices found his ability federalize the National Guard applied only in “exceptional” cases, and that ruling stalled broader plans to use federal troops in response to civil unrest.
Trump deployed troops to the cities under the federal orders called Title 10, which allows him to take over authority for a state’s National Guard, but they’re not allowed to conduct law enforcement activities, so they were not permitted to help control protests against his immigration crackdown.
Well, well, well. What do you know? If I’m reading it correctly, they CANNOT help with this BS immigration crackdown crap. That’s quite a piece of news. There are limits on what Trump can do with them. Too bad the Supreme Court didn’t lay down the *law* sooner. They aren’t allowed to do immigration sweeps. And Trump can’t take control of them except in exceptional circumstances. Considering how careful everyone has been with protests (and recording the ICE assholes), he (hopefully, please) won’t have a legal excuse to call them in.
“The administration finally realized the amount of resistance that was coming up, in terms of legal and public condemnation, was more than anyone anticipated,” said Randy Manner, a retired Army general and former acting vice chief of the National Guard.
The Pentagon had been considering a nationwide quick reaction force made up of National Guard troops, but the administration now appears to favor using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, and other Department of Homeland Security forces to deploy into areas of civil unrest because they face fewer use-of-force restrictions.
That last line says it right there. Fewer use of force restrictions. That still doesn’t mean they can shoot people, nor does it mean that they can take all the excessive actions we’ve been seeing in Minneapolis and all of Minnesota, and *anywhere else*. It’s frustrating that these people who have killed American citizens aren’t going to answer to a court of law for it when they damn well should. Ms Good and Mr Pretti *should not have been killed*. There was no even remotely legitimate reason for this to happen, and that will be a stain on our country for a long, long time. Yet in the meantime, he lost, he failed, and he capitulated.
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“those missions, while funded by the federal government ”
Leads quite directly to the question…
How much has all this cost the taxpayer, who’ve just been told of so many things the government can’t afford?
But they can waste all this on performative fascism?
“Capitulate?” Don’t you mean FLATULATE? Or Shart? Oh hell, let’s go ahead and say it – he shit’s his diaper!