Today’s notice: A model for Trump’s potential National Guard expansion. It’s education, stupid. A dispatch from the DNC. And: The DOJ’s shrinking National Security Division.
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Readying the troops: “We’ve done a similar thing in LA. It will look something like that,” a Trump administration official told NOTUS’ Violet Jira about the White House’s possible plans for Chicago.
Donald Trump is escalating: On Monday he called Chicago a “killing field,” after signing an executive order tasking Pete Hegseth with creating a D.C. National Guard “public safety” unit that’s “resourced, trained and available for rapid nationwide deployment.”
The administration’s justification: “The numbers do not lie. They’re doing funny math. Crime is down if you take into consideration the past decade. When it’s up year to year in the immediate, it doesn’t matter. It’s what people feel now,” the official said of Chicago.