Trump at CPAC Pitches Sending Military to Cities 'Until Law and Order Is Restored'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Donald Trump promised attendees at an ultra-conservative gathering Saturday night that he would use a second term in the White House to implement an authoritarian vision for policing crime that would include deploying the National Guard into US cities with high crime rates.

“I will send in the National Guard until law and order is restored. You know we’re not supposed to do that,” Trump said in his address closing out the annual Conservative Political Action Conference conference in Oxon Hill, Md., where he easily won a presidential straw poll of attendees.

Trump used his diatribe against cities to zero in on nearby Washington, D.C., whose federal prohibition on fully governing itself has drawn increased attention in recent days, as President Joe Biden and Congress appear poised to block the district’s divisive crime bill from becoming law.

The CPAC crowd, made up largely of right-wing political supporters and various officials from his former administration, stood and applauded when Trump called for full federal control of the city that is also the nation’s capital. “Frankly the federal government should take over control and management of Washington, D.C.,” Trump said, adding at one point, “I wouldn’t even call the mayor.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cpac-pitches-sending-military-022603463.html

[Trenzalore]

1. He'd probably have to because the only way he is getting into office again

Is if his plan on January 6th is successful this time.

[intrepidity]

2. Like the way he did on Jan 6th, right? nt

[Ray Bruns]

3. He even came up with a new name for the forces-FEDRA

[haele]

4. So, if he's in office, he's going to send the military to Bakersfield, CA?

Bet McCarthy would appreciate the help in his district.

Haele

[keithbvadu2]

5. Dotard promised to do that to/for Chicago with federal marshalls if they needed help.

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Chicago asked for help, and he ignored it.

[ancianita]

6. So he's still LYING. The NYT fact checked him at CPAC. Let's hope they continue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/politics/fact-check-trump-cpac.html


TRUMP SAID
1.
“Killings are taking place at a number like nobody’s ever seen, right in Manhattan.”

False. Murders declined in New York by about 11 percent from 488 homicides in 2021 to 433 homicides last year. It was the lowest level since 2019, according to the city’s Police Department. Murders continued to decrease this year to 30 in January (compared with 31 in January 2022) and to 26 in February (compared with 36 in February 2022)...

2.
“We lost $85 billion worth of the greatest military equipment in the world.”

Mr. Trump was overstating the value of military equipment seized by the Taliban after the United States withdrew the last of its troops from Afghanistan last August.

According to quarterly Pentagon reports to Congress, the United States had provided $88.6 billion for security in Afghanistan from October 2001 to July 2021, and disbursed about $75 billion. That figure includes the amount spent on training, antidrug trafficking efforts and infrastructure, as well as $18 billion for equipment. Most of the $75 billion actually went toward “sustainment,” a category that includes salaries, communications and gas for vehicles.

CNN and other news outlets have reported that the United States left behind about $7 billion of military equipment...

3.
Repeat lies: a) "no other president had ever gotten anything from China, not even 10 cents.”

In the decade before Mr. Trump took office, the United States collected $8 billion to $14 billion per year from duties on Chinese imports.)

b) "I presided over the “best economy in history.”

Average growth, even before the coronavirus pandemic decimated the economy, then was lower under Mr. Trump than under former Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Biden did not leave that military eqt for the Taliban.

Biden did not leave that military eqt for the Taliban.

He left it for the Afghan gov't, our ally, just as Trump arranged.

[Baked Potato]

8. GOP wants to federalize LE in order to control the masses.

Dump knows full well sending uniformed troops into cities for LE purposes would create extreme chaos, confusion, and the “carnage” he yearns for.

Of course, the traitorous piece of shit he is, guided by the likes of Miller, Bannon, Stone, and Gorka, wants us little folk to quarrel and fight.

GOP doesn’t want folks to be happy or healthy.

The whole premise is built on a false pretense of a lack of law-and-order from the get-go, so there’s that.