Trump states that only the Blue State cities have a problem with crime and Trump believes he is the only one to solve it.
Wrong.
The highest violent crime rate in the USA is Memphis, Tennessee with an average of 596.5% above the national average. There are 2501.3 violent crimes in Memphis for every 100,000 people. There are 610,919 residents of Memphis as of 2024. That means that city has more than 15,000 violent crimes committed every year. The next highest city in the entire USA is nearly half of that and is NOT Los Angeles, Baltimore, Washington, DC, or Chicago.
There is no valid reason for calling up the National Guard by the Executive Branch as this is NOTHING more than politics by a pretend authoritarian.
What else is underlying the pretend authoritarian’s so called emergency?
Guns. Gun violence. Liberal and dangerous gun laws OR lack thereof.
Now, if Republicans believe soldiers need to line the streets of our greatest cities, what are they doing about the violence? What are they doing about military style weapons our National Guard will inevitably meet if their role changes from supporting an emergency to law enforcement? The National Guard are soldiers, not cops.
If Republicans are rolling out soldiers to protect citizens what are they doing to bring the violent crime rates down to allow the people of the National Guard to go back to their jobs and families? Nothing? Our most successful and beautiful cities are going to be encampments of soldiers?
There is absolutely no reason for what Donald Trump is doing. It is long known the cities of the USA are plagued with gun trafficking along corridors such as Interstate 95 on the east coast of the USA. Drug cartels traffick guns along with money and drugs in these corridors. I might point out Memphis, Tennessee is along the Mississippi River. Waterways facilitate the Drug Cartel trafficking.
Why isn’t the National Guard deployed in support to the DEA? That is where the real war with Drug Cartels is taking place. So, why waste everyone’s time pretending he is an authoritarian leader straightening out crime in Blue State cities?
Politics and attempting to sew fear of him as a strongman that is coming for you.
Trump is outside the law and the only other authorities cooperating with his lawless behavior are other Republicans.
