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Donald Trump announced that he is currently Abandoning efforts to deploy National Guard In major cities run by Democrats, including chicago, portland and Los Angeles.
“We are removing national guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that crime is Because of the fact that there are these great patriots in these cities, and just because of that fact,” the president wrote on Truth Social Wednesday night.
“Without federal intervention, Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago would have disappeared. When crime starts to spike again, we will be back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form – it’s just a matter of time!”
Despite the president’s claims Withdrawals come as crime rates dropthe government has faced multiple legal challenges over the presence of security guards.
Troops have left Los Angeles after the president deployed troops earlier this year as part of a broader crackdown on crime and immigration. They were sent to Chicago and Portland but never took to the streets by the end of the legal challenge.
Guards were removed from the streets this After the court ruling but before December 15th. But the appeals court put a hold on another part of the order, which called for returning control of the Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“With that, we’re done with 2025. Moving on,” Newsom wrote in response to the president’s Wednesday statement. “We won in court and forced him to do this,” the governor’s office wrote in another post on X.
“Trump’s nonsense here is the political version of ‘You can’t fire me, I resign.'”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the development a “significant litigation victory” in a statement Wednesday.
“For six months, the California National Guard has been used as a political pawn by a president who aspired to be king,” Bonta said. “There’s a reason our founders decided that military and civilian affairs must be kept separate; our military is, by design, apolitical.”
Fighting urban crime has become a mainstay of Trump’s second term, and he has considered invoking the Insurrection Act to prevent opponents from using the courts to block his plans.
He said he sees his tough-on-crime approach as a winning political issue ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Last month, in a sign that the president’s momentum seemed to be waning, U.S. Northern Command said it was “shifting and/or streamlining” operations in Portland, Chicago and Los Angeles but would have “a sustained, persistent and long-term presence in each city.”