National Guard deployed: Democratic cities oppose Trump maneuvers

The American Democrats accused Donald Trump on Sunday of “making crises” to justify the sending of soldiers of the National Guard to mega -cities held by the opposition and that the republican president considers to be “eaten away” by crime.

The 79 -year -old conservative head of state, who applies his draconian fighting program against delinquency and immigration to a forced work, threatened one more city on Sunday, Baltimore, capital of the Maryland State led by a democrat, to dispatch “troops” of this army reserve body.

Thousands of national and navy guards were deployed in June in Los Angeles (west) and, since August 12, in the capital Washington (East), where armored vehicles park in front of the station and along the immense esplanade The National Mall, bordered by the institutions and monuments of the country.

The National Guard reservists began to carry their service weapons on Sunday evening, the army announced in a statement, adding that they are not allowed to use the force that “as a last resort and only in response to an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury”.

Donald Trump also threatens to send federal police in Chicago (North), then in New York (northeast), third and first American mega-cities.

The national guard reservists depend on each US state and can only be deployed in the case of a national emergency, as a natural disaster, at the request of the federal state and after the green light from the local governor.

They are not supposed to intervene against crime, riots, demonstrations.

“Donald Trump has no legal basis, no authority, to try to send federal troops to Chicago,” thundered on CNN the chief of the Democrat minority in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries.

“We must continue to support local law enforcement and not let Donald Trump play with the life of Americans, nor make a crisis to divert attention, because he is deeply unpopular,” hammered this elected representative for New York.

Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, where Chicago is, assured on X that his state “had been co -opted for a long time with the federal police” against a crime that has often bruised this big city posed on the verge of the great lakes and known throughout the world.

“But we will not let a dictator impose on us his will,” launched this figure of the Democratic Party and opposing in view of Donald Trump.

The latter reacted to messages “with a rather nasty and provocative tone of another Democrat, the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore.

He had proposed on Saturday evening on X to the New York billionaire “a promenade” in Baltimore to twist his neck to the “unlocked lies against the progress we have made in terms of security in Maryland”.

“Eh Donald, we can provide you with a golf car if it makes things easier. Keep me posted! ”Ironized the leader of this state who adjoins Washington and whose port capital Baltimore, theater of the series” Listening “, was long considered dangerous.

“I imagine he is talking about Baltimore out of control and plagued by crime?” (…) If Wes Moore needs help (…) I will send the +troops there, as we are doing nearby, in Washington, in order to get rid of crime, “said the American president on his Truth social network.

Mr. Moore replied to CNN and CBS that he “would not allow the Maryland National Guard to be used” against crime because “it is unconstitutional”.

As for Chicago, the Washington Post said since Saturday that the Pentagon has been preparing for weeks the deployment of the National Guard, again officially against crime and immigration.

The Defense Ministry made no comments.

The American president had claimed on Friday from his oval office that “magnificent African-American women say: +please president Trump, come to Chicago +” and announced that this city and New York, economic and cultural capital, would be “the next” on the list.

Washington already welcomes more than 1900 National Guard reservists, sent by republican states, as well as federal agency police such as the FBI, the ICE immigration police or the DEA antidrogue.

“We are going to make our cities very, very safe,” promised Mr. Trump.