Trump isn’t ‘Taking OVER’ anyplace…
But it DOES seem like he’s trying to ‘define’ Democratic cities and states as crime infested….
He HAS put Democratic official’s and lawmakers in a tough spot….
EVERYBODY IS Against crime in their neighbourhoods….
Temporarily cleaning up the streets may work and look great in the media….
BUT?
Troops in the streets?
Feds riding around in crowds hunting for people IS DISTURBING….
And THAT IS what Donald Trump and Republicans WILL use against Democrats POLITICALLY….
Democrats pushed back on Sunday against President Trump’s characterization of blue-state cities as crime-ridden and lawless, which the White House has used to justify calling up National Guard troops and sending federal law enforcement agents to Washington streets.
Mr. Trump said on Friday that he was considering using the same playbook in other major American cities, and that Chicago could be next. The administration has not indicated when the National Guard could be sent to Chicago, New York or any of the other cities the president has mentioned.
Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago, said on CNN on Sunday that Mr. Trump’s threat was more a reflection of the president’s animus toward Chicago’s Democratic leadership and desire to crack down on immigration than a considered strategy to take on crime.
“When you look at what he did in D.C., he’s not going to actually deal with crime,” Mr. Emanuel said. “This is an attempt to deal with cities that are welcoming cities, known as sanctuary cities, and deal with immigration.”
Violent crime in Chicago, Washington and other major cities has fallen in recent years. Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois said in a statement on Saturday, “There is no emergency that warrants the president of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard” or sending in federal agents. The governor said he had not received any communication from the White House about such a deployment and added that the president was “attempting to manufacture a crisis.”
Mr. Trump said on Friday that New York City would be the next target for a federal policing effort, after Chicago.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in New York’s mayoral race, said in a telephone interview on Sunday that New Yorkers were not looking for law enforcement help from Washington.
What New Yorkers want, Mr. Mamdani said, is “not to see the National Guard across the five boroughs. It’s to know that they could still have the same health care that they have today. It’s to know that they could still afford their groceries.” He called federal cuts to social services “the crisis that D.C. is creating” and said there was not a single problem “they would be coming to solve.”
On Sunday morning, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that he was also considering sending National Guard troops to Baltimore, describing the city as “out of control” and “crime ridden.” In an appearance on CBS, Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, a Democrat, pointed out that homicides in the city had dropped significantlyand said the president was relying on “tropes” and “1980s scare tactics.”…