He’s trying to be slick but he’s such a smarmy little worm that it doesn’t really work.
But let’s unpack this. Trump said he was going to deploy the military to U.S. cities to fight “the enemy within” and said he believed they could use the deployments for training exercises. Ok, so Johnson wants to claim that he was referring to standard national guard training and that it’s just fine.
But this comment has to been in the context of Hegseth’s call for a “warfighter ethos” which is anything but the hauling sandbags and search and rescue operations usually performed by the National Guard.
We know what was meant by all this. They want to use the military to violently suppress all dissent in America’s big cities where they believe their political opposition is. It’s not hard to figure out what they’re up to.
Here’s how the the president’s top adviser and second in command puts it:
