Trump says he’ll deploy troops to San Francisco, flaunts ‘unquestioned power’ of Insurrection Act

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President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will deploy troops to San Francisco, marking the latest iconic United States city where Trump is seeking to enact a crime cleanup.

Trump said he is “so proud” of the deployment he carried out in Washington, D.C., saying 1,700 “career criminals” were moved out of the city through this. Since then, the Trump administration has been working to allow the National Guard to be deployed in Chicago, insisting that “the people want us there” despite Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D-IL) resistance.

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