Trump's deployment of federal agents in cities has everything to do with his reelection
ANOTHER DAY, another attempt by President Trump to reframe the election as about anything but his abject failure to contain the most catastrophic public health crisis in a century. This time, the president deploys federal agents to cities genuinely wracked by violence. Yet by justifying the move in inflammatory partisan terms — cities “all run by very liberal Democrats” whose fate under a President Biden would mean “the whole country would go to hell” — he makes clear his real agenda. It has nothing to do with violent crime, and everything to do with his reelection.
The president used a similar playbook days ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, sending 5,200 active-duty troops to the southern border and warning of “an invasion of our country,” meaning a caravan of migrants heading north from Central America. He seemed to forget about it right after Election Day, and the troops began withdrawing a few days later.
A spike in violent crime is a genuine problem in Chicago and Albuquerque, where the deployment of agents under the Justice Department’s direction will begin. But don’t expect Mr. Trump to care or say much about it after the polls close this November.
The president is a wizard at changing the subject. “This will divert from Ivanka,” he said, explaining an incendiary 2018 statement defending the murderous Saudi crown prince, after The Post reported that his daughter had sent hundreds of emails from her personal account to government officials, in violation of federal rules. That account, from former national security adviser John Bolton, has never been contradicted.
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