Not content with seizing control of Washington D.C., President Donald Trump is now eyeing Chicago for his next crackdown. The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon has been working on a model for military deployment in the Windy City that could then be replicated across the U.S.
According to the report, one of the options for federal intervention in Chicago includes mobilizing thousands of National Guard troops as soon as next month.
Trump has already deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles and D.C. this summer, and 2,000 troops are still stationed in D.C. as part of the president’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital.
Trump argued that the intervention, which also included federalizing D.C. police officers, was necessary due to rampant crime in the nation’s capital, a cl