The OP's wapo cite:
The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he wants to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.
The planning, which has not been previously disclosed, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September to what is the third most populous city in the United States.
The mission, if approved, would have parallels to the polarizing operation that Trump ordered in Los Angeles in June, when he deployed 4,000 members of the California National Guard and 700 active-duty Marines despite the protests of state and local leaders. The use of thousands of active-duty troops in Chicago also has been discussed but is considered less likely at this time, said two officials who, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Chicago effort would further expand Trump’s use of military force domestically, even when state and local authorities call the idea unwelcome and unwarranted. Administration officials have defended such deployments, arguing that they are taking necessary steps
to bring back law and order.
Trump on Friday touted his ongoing National Guard intervention in D.C., where more than 2,200 Guard members have been deployed in what he has cast as an overdue effort to crack down on crime. He zeroed in on Chicago as the next target.
“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent,” Trump said, in remarks that were immediately dismissed by Chicago’s leaders as unfounded.
“And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after this. And it won’t even be tough.”
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Interesting development here: the excuse this time around isn't that Chicago has an incredibly-high rate of violent crimes. Just that the city is "a mess". And that the city's mayor is "grossly incompetent". And that the city needs to be "straightened out".
In other words, trump is all but announcing he can and he will continue to politicize the NG in order to use military troops as weapons against whatever cities (and their states) he wants to attack, to make examples of, as a method of intimidating the rest of us.
