With his controversial police intervention in left-wing cities, Trump lays an electoral trap for Democrats

Will it be ‘Hellepoel’ Chicago, ‘very unsafe’ Baltimore, or ” pretty rough ‘New Orleans? Since his hostile takeover of the police apparatus of the “dirty, deadly” Washington, Donald Trump, always threatens to dismiss the National Guard and Federal Investigation Services on a subsequent democratically governed city. The unlawfulness of military deployment in Los Angeles makes that legally complicated. With what according to critics are umpteenth step towards dictatorship is, the president achieves at least two goals: the aliens police give access to free ports for migrants and his political opponents force unpopular views to defend.

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What is happening now in the capital Washington?

Very little in recent days, say activists who try any action of the National Guard and the ICE immigration police in the city. From a tent camp at the Washington train station, they monitor federal law enforcement, address the men, and some women, in uniform on their unwanted presence and film their performance.

The station has recently been taken over by the federal board. But on Wednesday afternoon there were only eight members of the National Guard for hours, especially chatting, the railway police and activists. “While they also stood outside here all the time in the first few weeks to bother us and others,” says Dominique Moore (28) of ‘resistance organization’ Flareon the grass in front of the main entrance.

Trump poked that the crime in Washington has fallen ‘100 percent’ since he has on 11 August about five hundred agents of the immigration police, drug fighting, firearm service and FBI, plus two thousand reservists from different states, sent into the city. The number of reported murders, violent incidents and robberies has been in recent weeks fellbut certainly not to zero. And the daily number of arrests was not much higher in August than in July, before the arrival of the force.

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The national agents have cleared tent camps of homeless people, without extra investments in care. And the ICE aliens police has argued randomly without a residence permit – something the local police in Sanctuary City Washington never did. More than crime fighting, the Trump government appears to be the deportation and intimidation of illegal migrants who work here in the hospitality industry, construction and cleaning.

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Can this be done just like that?

Trump can intervene deeper in the capital than beyond, because Washington is a district and does not fall within a state with a governor. All will judges still determine How powerful the president is here.

From the start, the authorities in the city have opposed the way in which the federal takeover took place, but welcome extra blue on the street. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday that she wants to work with the government permanently to reduce crime. If Trump wants to occupy the city for more than thirty days, he needs formal approval of the congress. That does not intend to vote on the issue, reported The Washington Post Thursday. Although the National Guard, at least symbolic, will remain present.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in California ruled that Trumps mobilization of the reservists in Los Angeles, last June, was unlawful. This complicates the plans that the government has made to tackle Chicago and Baltimore, among others. It is no coincidence that these cities, just like LA, are in states with democratic governors who have shown interest in the presidential race of 2028.

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Where does Trump want to mobilize gardists after this?

Everything indicates that Trump has focused on Chicago. The up-to-two largest city in the country is struggling with considerable crime. Last weekend eight people were killed and fifty injured in shootings. Moreover, Chicago has a large migrant community within which not everyone has residence papers for the US. Neither mayor Brandon Johnson nor governor JB Pritzker cooperates with ICE to have people who have not committed any crimes. “We’re going in“, Trump said about the city on Wednesday.” I don’t say when, but we’re going in. “

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In recent days, in particular, Pritzker has appeared a lot and often in the media to say that it is not so bad with the crime in Chicago. Just as Democratic politicians have also dismissed Washington’s intake as unnecessary, because crime is already falling. It is an understandable defense, but with that, Pritzker steps with open eyes that Trump has put. It is true that crime has been falling for years after ‘coronapics’, but for the people in Chicago who suffer from it and the people outside of Chicago who look at it with horror is still unnecessarily high. “I think we will never get rid of it,” said the governor on Tuesday in an interview about crime.

The Republican Party seems to have decided that law and order The theme of the 2026 interim elections should be

Trump, realizing that he is legally on slippery ice, suggested on Wednesday that he might prefer to go to New Orleans first. Although this is also a democratic city with a black mayor, in a Republican state where the governor can formally seek his federal help to combat local crime.

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What does Trump win with this?

The Republican Party, Trump first, seems to have decided that the fight against crime, law and orderthe theme of the 2026 interim elections should be. They see that – after immigration and trans -rights – as a weak spot of the Democrats. Nothing comes out better than Pritzker and others who say for cameras that it is not so bad with crime.

Crime becomes one 80/20 issue named. Although it is declining according to all statistics, it still believes About 80 percent Of the Americans, politicians have to do more to combat it. Democrats who shout that a federal acquisition of cities is unnecessary and that it is not so bad with crime, thus supporting a minority position that can lead to electoral loss. That Trump, convicted of 34 off -criminal offenses, passes all kinds of constitutional and moral boundaries with such intervention is for many voters less relevant. In the meantime, there is a lot of extra money and manpower to pick up migrants, at the expense of law enforcement and crime fight.

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