WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.
Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that he’s removing the Guard troops for now. “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” he wrote.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott previously deployed the state’s National Guard to Chicago. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month denied an application to pause a lower court’s ruling that bared the National Guard troops’ mobilization in the Chicago area.
