Former President Barack Obama took President Donald Trump to task for deploying National Guard troops in Chicago, Obama’s hometown, under false pretenses and for violating the law in doing so.

Obama’s comments occurred during an interview on the final episode of comedian Marc Maron’s podcast “WTF with Marc Maron,” released on Monday.

“There is no doubt that a lot of the norms, civic habits, expectations, institutional guardrails that we had—that we took for granted—for our democracy have been weakened deliberately,” Obama said.

He added, “When you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting.”

Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that military force is needed to deal with supposedly surging crime in cities led by Democratic politician

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