US President Donald Trump has announced that he is “withdrawing” National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, following a series of legal setbacks, and has claimed that its deployments had helped reduce crime in citiesas reported by Bloomberg.
“We are withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, despite the fact that crime has been greatly reduced by having these great patriots in those cities, and only because of that fact,” Trump said on his social networks this Wednesday, highlighting that he would review his decision if crime increased in those regions.
Thus, he has warned that they will return “perhaps in a very different and stronger form when crime begins to skyrocket again”: “It is only a matter of time!”
Trump’s move comes a week after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow him to send Guard troops to Chicago, a major setback in the president’s attempt to use the military in Democratic-controlled cities to address what he and his supporters say “is rampant crime and protests over his stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants.”
