Trump administration preparing to send federal agents to Chicago

The Trump administration is preparing to send federal agents to Chicago this week, two law enforcement officials tell CNN, as President Donald Trump and top officials are promising to crack down on what they say are violence and the increase in crime in major cities.
One senior law enforcement official told CNN that there are plans to send federal agents to Chicago through the end of the summer. The agents will focus on illegal gun sales and gun violence and outstanding warrants, among other targets, according to one of the sources. Both sources said an announcement could be made in the coming days.
The effort appears to be separate from the federal presence in Portland, Oregon, which was part of the President's demand that federal buildings be protected from protesters.
Chicago's mayor warned about such plans in the wake of criticisms of how federal agents are facing off with protesters in Portland.
"I have great concerns about that particularly given the track record in the city of Portland. I spent a lot of time yesterday talking with the mayor or Portland to get a sense of what has happened there. We don't need federal agents without any insignia taking people off the streets and holding them, I think, unlawfully. That's not what we need," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot said that instead the federal government could help stem the violence by cracking down on illegal guns.

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    1. I’ve seen other women put photos of their children online. They all have tires under their master bedroom.

    2. @Meagan King Ugh, sorry for your luck as Ohio is the armpit of the country. I reside in Clarksville Maryland, the second wealthiest zip code in the country. Escape before your child has an overdose on pain meds.

    3. @TJ Have you been watching the news? Americans are horrified with the left wanting to disband the police and they are watching in disbelief as liberal governors let their cities burn to the ground. Gun sales are up 80% due to the radical left.
      It appears that the majority of the people in the United States agree with my assessment.  The Helmut Norpoth Model which has correctly picked 24 out of 26 Presidential Elections, including 2016, gives Trump a 91% chance of re-election and also predicts he will earn 362 electoral votes. The recent GOP victories seem to reinforce his predictions. 

      I say keep rioting and looting as this only helps Trump. At this point I’m just gonna sit back, relax and laugh. 

      https://www.westernjournal.com/dems-will-furious-college-professor-says-trump-will-win-2020-re-election/

    1. @Kaizaro123 nice try. How much more damage needs to be done before this needs to be called out? You are deflecting from the poor job done by Democratic leaders.

    2. @JAY Scott Oh, just shut it. Why now before the elections and not before? What suddenly changed: Do you know the statistics for all the time Trump has been in office?

    3. @Kaizaro123 Maybe because the Dems amped up the riots just before the election to try and get the black vote and caused this mayhem and Trump has to clean it up. This kinda stuff happens from the Dems in election years, As for the stat? Not sure what you mean?

    4. @JAY Scott No. There has always been crime in Chicago. Why now? Do you even know he threatened to do the exact same thing in Jan 2017?

  1. So when the president has no policy to bring about peace he becomes a dictator and sends in the army! This is America?

    1. champ voy He is not sending in the “army” he is sending in his SS🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    2. champ voy uhm yes, his policy was to let the mayor do it. She has failed. What would you do next? Send aid to schools? The gangs are not going back to school. They are currently killing people.

    3. @ღSwnsasyღ _ Wow, I didn’t see any protests. I seen lots of riots though. They were all over the Federal building too. Guess you missed that part.

    4. @R. McBride You are wrong. They can arrest off the property if someone vandals and leave the property. Antifa are the thugs. They are the ones doing wrong!

  2. Remember when Fox and the right wingers would say, “Obama is gonna have secret police to around up all his political enemies, and put citizens in FEMA camps”?

    1. @Joshua Williams Anyone is a violent criminal if you declare them to be so. In Hong Kong if you are pro democracy you can be charged as a terrorist under new laws. Trump is basically sending agents to arrest people that make him look bad

    2. @TMad Forget the federal agents. President Trump should send the military to Chicago. I support him 100%.

    3. @TMad I would settle for local authorities doing their job, but they’re not… Still think any politician is on your side, think again

    1. @James Ramos

      You like roads, schools, quality healthcare for veterans, to be safe at work. We all pay federal taxes, but it’s a matter of WHERE the money goes. Drug companies couldn’t survive without taxpayer funding. K-12 schools are mostly funded through property taxes. There are still people in this country right now, through no fault of their own who are starving. All of these people are helped through taxes. When government works the way it’s supposed to, these programs actually help people. They were set up for a reason. But, politicians like to put their fingers in the pot and help their friends instead. Through their “donors,” they steal millions from the taxpayers. There is nothing wrong with helping someone when they have lost their job, or can’t work because of an illness. Many people have lost everything and the ONLY way they got back up is through welfare programs. Obama cut off welfare to moms who were just riding the system. 2 year limit. Max. There are also rules that state you have to be actively seeking or have a job to get benefits. There is no reason why anyone in this country should have to starve. If Trump is reelected, millions will be homeless and probably starve.

    2. @Captain DiTrag you have the luxury to make those comments from the safety of you mobile device or desktop, but I’m pretty sure that when it hits the fan you’ll be the first to soil your cute little pink knickers.

    3. @J A C C I think I am good. Dems had a chance until they started the riots. They exposed themselves on their evil intent. They are already destroying the great America. And so many are seeing their disgusting acts. You can stay blind to it and wait for the blindside!

    4. JAY Scott dude “evil!” They are protesting police violence for god sake. I don’t know what fringe thugs are causing violence but those are the ones who should be arrested… AND NOT BY Unidentified FEDS in unmarked cars. Local police should be dealing with it.

  3. Drump is doing this to have federal agents out there when he losses the race. He wants to be a DICTATOR!!!!

    1. No, he’s doing it to stop the idiots burning and destroying things in the streets

    1. @CNN SUX Trump one by a small margin even with him litteraly asking Russia to hack US citizens in live TV. He has yet to gain any voter base and has lost many of his own. Hes fucked

    2. So knowing history is showing ignorance is it? Or do you think people like watching their cities getting burned up and looted out?

    3. @Gregg and I know my history. And Secret police and violently suppressing cities is exactly why we rebeled from the King of England in the first place.

      The protests were peaceful in portland until the secret police moved! The Washington protest was peaceful! Your facism will not stand!

      And no matter how many youtube comments you type, it wont stop the millions upton millions of people protesting agaisnt YOUR KING! DOWN WITH THE KING!

  4. How can he send federal law enforcement just to cities where Democrats are in office????? How is that LEGAL????

    1. Trevor McKenna-Williams they are not “demonstrators” at this point, they are tyrants. The demonstrating stopped when the thugs started looting , burning buildings and destroying property.

    1. @Tamatik Canada
      Why, is that what always happens to you?
      No one wants to be around you for very long, so you get cheated on?
      Instead of projecting your own problems on to others, why don’t you try a support group.
      Now, are you done trying to divert from the fact that Donald grifted you?
      They’ll have to pry Donald’s wee wee from your cold dead hands/mouth.
      That’s more embarrassing than being cheated on, by far.
      Got any more deflection responses about girlfriends/boyfriends, little one?

    2. Jeancy Mabanza I hope you are right but Trump has already been re selected..This is a trend that has been America since we were born and continue to be that way long after we leave earth.Both parties do not care about people like you and me.

    3. Lyrical Prophet, I hope this incoming election will change things because it’s unacceptable what happened right now, especially in the 21st century.

    4. Joshua, Ebola came from Africa, but the government did everything to get control of it. Governing is all about anticipation.

    1. Kathy Curtis And planting federal agents will make it any better? If anything it’ll get much, much worse.

    2. Jarry Sciligo This is exactly what he will do. He’ll try to postpone the election by using any means necessary. It’s absolutely sick.

    1. @Noreb Never said they couldn’t do more on that. Thats an entirely diffrent topic for discussion. In a way they are doing something by locking up the rioters. The ones who are peacefully protesting for the most part stay relatively safe. The protest I have seen that remained peaceful, most people had mask and were, polite, calm, respectful, and got thier thought out thier. The ones who are burning stuff down and tearing cities up are mostly covered with things like bandanas, and all other forms of coveri gs that are designed to hide identity. Not prevent air transfer of a virus. Plus the disruption they are causing. In finical, saftey, and destruction of property is causing hundreds to have to leave thier homes and go to alternate locations with family, hotels, etc. So they are no cramped together, potentially spreading the virus. So in a way they are curbing it by removing rioters and anarchist, so the people who are actually protesting can do so safley and peacefully. Agian just my opinion. I feel like both the state and federal goverments dropped the ball in certain points of preventing the spread. Several states as well as the federal goverment also had good point they hit with preventing the spread. Regardless state or federal level, our goverment and health care system were bot even close to being prepared. We have put to much infuses on curative measures and not enough on preventative. Plus the pricing system for Healthcare is ridiclious and needs a revamp. We don’t need free health care we need Healthcare that doesn’t charge an insurance company one price raised to gain profit on bulk discounts, and an individual payer the same exact price. We need to have it like the old-school hometown doctors used to operate. They would charge people based on thier income or situation, usually in some form of pay scale system, and charge insurance customer a flate rate for services. The insurance companies still make thier money at a raised rate to gain profits for doctors, or in the form of bulk discounts that earn quick money up front for the doctor, that is worked off over time. Or a number of other ways it could be worked, but Billy Bob the construction worker who 20 so.ething and workout and healthy doesn’t have to pay for so.ething he doesn’t need, but if he cut his hand, he can still get a service that he can afford up front or do a simple payment plan for. Why pay for so.ething you dont need. If you only drove a rental car like two or 3 week out of the year and biked the rest, you wouldn’t pay for car insurance for the whole year. Agian just my opinions.

    2. @Fake Seattle Sounders FC Neither, well depending on if China developed it in a lab or if was natural. Either nature or China fault hahaha. Regardless they were thing both state and federal could have done better pre pandemic, in planning for something like this and in current statues. Ghey have also both done some good move. Hindsight is a hell of a thing.

    3. How long are you going to defend this Chicago mayor’s inadequate measures to stop gang violence? Do you speak for the terrorized South Chicago residents? Do you live anywhere near there? Can you imagine?

    4. @Noreb What protest? They are riots, You don’t know the difference? They are not peaceful at all. Prove they are!

    5. @Travis Laughlin We lived at Division & Western for almost 10 years. Lori Lightfoot seems to care more about the city than many of her party-machine predecessors. She was elected after we’d left but my aunt and other family still live in the city and have enormous respect for her.

  5. Don’t be fooled. This is just another distraction so that certain Cities and States can’t go out and vote in upcoming elections.

    1. The troops will be in place to cause disruptions on election day.
      They will send agitaters into the polling places to cause havoc and then use the troops to break it up creating chaos which will be preventing the people from voting at the polling station.
      This explains why he is sending them into Democratic cities.

  6. The message seems: you have Democrats in charge, either: no worries, “We will lock ‘them’ up.” OR : “ We will lock YOU up.” Trump’s policies disgust me.

  7. *The 14 characteristics of Fascism are:*
    *Powerful and Continuing Nationalism*
    Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
    *Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights*
    Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
    *Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause*
    The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
    *Supremacy of the Military*
    Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
    *Rampant Sexism*
    The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
    *Controlled Mass Media*
    Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
    *Obsession with National Security*
    Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
    *Religion and Government are Intertwined*
    Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
    *Corporate Power is Protected*
    The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
    *Labor Power is Suppressed*
    Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .
    *Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts*
    Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
    *Obsession with Crime and Punishment*
    Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
    *Rampant Cronyism and Corruption*
    Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
    *Fraudulent Elections*
    Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

    1. @Christinaso you’re saying it’s the left running around waving the Confederate flag or Nazi flags and carrying torches in a nighttime march shouting “you will not replace us”?

    2. @Fred That is NOT a Confederate flag!!! It is the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. People are so very ignorant of the history of the United States and the Civil War. READ!

      The rioters keep vandalizing and toppling statues, yet, the reality is that hardly any #BLM-types could ever pass an Elementary School level History test on the “offensive” people portrayed in our statuary; let alone be able to read the questions on the test itself. Absolutely worthless dregs of society!

    3. I think we’ve just about covered everything on the list. We just need The Night of The Long Knives to go over the edge.

    4. @Fred It makes me sad that there are so many uneducated people like Christina in the world, willing to sell out their country for a red hat and a slogan.

    1. Gregg I’m old enough to know I better spell simple words correctly if I’m going to claim my race and genes are superior to someone else.

    2. Also just for the record, I was not talking to you. My comment was in response to a user by the name of “Chinga”

    3. No just to fruitcakes like you….its us…his supporters you should really watch your tongue around….war is coming.

    1. @13 13 You have two real options if you want them to stop:
      Listen and pass legislation.
      Back away and hope they get tired.
      All other courses of action do not have any positive outcomes.

      You “preparing” means nothing. Mostly like they won’t even bother with you. IF they do by the time the situation has spiraled that bad your pathetic attempts to “prepare” will be meaningless.

      I know in your mind you have some image of walking dead like hoards roaming onto your property and you valiantly picking them of. The reality is you’ll take a pot shot at them as they pass and they’re response will be motors and rockets.

    1. @Arthur Schnapka Trump isn’t a dictator. He’s a President trying to do the job that the mayors refuses to do. When your city is full of riots and destruction to federal property and arson, someone needs to step in. Blame these incompetent mayors.

    2. @Arthur Schnapka a dictatorship? LOL. how long would you wait to jump in water after you started on fire? by your logic, you’d wait until you’re dead.

    1. @Awe some I’m not the one ripping down statues of abolitionists. That’s what your kind are doing, Democrat.

    2. @Mandira Chowdhury No, they gave Obama a free pass because he’s an Oreo and they accepted that he won. You Democrats never accepted that Hillary Clinton lost fair and square and you’re traitors to this country, just like you people were during the Civil War and segregation.

    3. You You a message for the middle: when he’s done with the Dems he’ll have taken your right too, you’ll just realize it too late.

    4. Captain DiTrag what do you mean didn’t accept. Your nuts. Your the traitor if you let this happen. He’ll come for you next. That’s how dictatorships work.

  8. Youre at the 4 year mark of trump replacing every department with sycophant “acting” heads who do what theyre told and have 0 accountability. Welcome to your dictatorship.

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