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Lauren Gambino

Trump to send national guard to Memphis and says Chicago is ‘probably next’

a man in a suit sits at a desk as people stand around him
Trump speaks as Republican Tennessee senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Tennessee governor Bill Lee, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, and others listen following the signing of Restoring Law and Order in Memphis memo in the White House, on Monday. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that would send national guard troops into Memphis, in a “replica” of the administration’s expanding military-led response to urban crime in Democratic-run cities.

The move was welcome by Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, who stood behind Trump in the Oval Office as he signed a presidential memo establishing a “Memphis Safe Task Force”.

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