President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” he said in a social media post Wednesday.
He just decided to do it because well, he just did. The fact that even his toadies on the Supreme Court refused to issue an emergency order overturning lower court decisions that he’d exceeded his authority had nothing to do with it.
This was one of his few setbacks from the high court and, of course, he couldn’t admit it.
Perhaps more importantly, I think he feels he doesn’t really need to send in the National Guard now that he’s got the money flowing to fully staff his secret police force. They only answer to Stephen, Kristi and Corey Lewandowski rather than a bunch of military stiffs who have been brainwashed into thinking there are rules and laws. By this time next year, we will probably have tens of thousands of masked psychos and criminals marauding through the streets rousting anyone who looks at them sideways.
If Trump gets lucky they will be violent enough to provoke serious resistance allowing him to invoke the Insurrection Act. That’s always been Plan B. He’s not worried.