Former President Barack Obama tore into President Donald Trump‘s attempts to use the military in American cities, saying that democracy is being“weakened deliberately.” Obama cited Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into Chicago, arguing that a president sending U.S. troops into American cities “against their own people” is “inherently corrupting," and he's not wrong. All of this is deliberate.

“It wasn’t controversial for me to go to other countries and say, ‘You know what? It’s a good idea for militaries to be under civilian control,’ because when you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting,” Obama said on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast released Monday.

The former president further said the Trump administration is attempting “wha

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