The Defense Department planning, in the works for weeks, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September, the Post reported.

President plots expansion of crime crackdown as Pentagon chief says troops patrolling DC streets will be armed

Trump has already deployed 800 National Guard troops in Washington DC, declaring a public safety emergency. He is setting his sights now on Chicago.

Trump’s threat coincided with the announcement that military members in Washington, DC, would be armed during patrols.

Donald Trump has suggested he could extend the mission and declare a national emergency.

Il Pentagono sta pianificando da settimane un dispiegamento militare a Chicago, forse già in settembre, per combattere il crimine. (ANSA)

Il Pentagono sta pianificando da settimane un dispiegamento militare a Chicago, forse già in settembre, per combattere il crimine. (ANSA)

Il Pentagono sta pianificando da settimane un dispiegamento militare a Chicago, forse già in settembre, per combattere il crimine. (ANSA)

The Defense Department planning, in the works for weeks, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September,…

The Democratic governor of Illinois, which includes Chicago, accused Trump of ‘attempting to manufacture a crisis’.

Laut „Washington Post“ plant das Pentagon, schon im September die Nationalgarde nach Chicago zu schicken. Präsident Trump will damit – wie auch in Washington D.C – Kriminalität…

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is working on plans to deploy the US military to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he is cracking down on crime, homelessness and undocumented…

Dopo Washington, Trump punta a Chicago. Il Pentagono valuta l'invio di truppe già da settembre, ma il sindaco Johnson si oppone

Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul will speak Monday in response to plans by President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago.

Local officials and activists called the potential federal deployment of troops ‘uncoordinated’ and an ‘authoritarian power grab’.