President Donald Trump says he’s willing to use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military against Americans in U.S. cities if federal courts continue to thwart his agenda.

In an ominous sign of things to come, the president also vowed “to go city by city” using federal troops to crack down on crime, insisting it was for the good of the country.

The comments came after the White House ordered 300 Illinois National Guard troops to be deployed to Chicago—plus hundreds more from Texas—to protect federal buildings and ICE immigration agents from “radical left” protesters.

Trump also tried to surge the military in Oregon, but a federal judge has temporarily blocked his plan after finding there was no violent insurgency to justify it.

“The President’s determination was simply untethered to

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