Donald Trump also threatens Chicago and New York with a national guard

After the advance of putting Washington under the control of the federal government and free from alleged crime, US President Donald Trump said that it would be the turn of Chicago and New York. “We will make our cities very, very safe,” Trump said to journalists in the White House on Friday (local time). “I think Chicago will be our next goal, and then we will help New York,” he added. Like Washington, both cities are ruled by the Democrats.

The announcement was followed by Trump’s controversial procedure in the US capital, where he had sent hundreds of members of the US national guard and other security authorities last week. The US President justified this with the fight against the massive crime prevailing there. Trump also assumed the local police police.

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, on the other hand, emphasizes that crime is at a 30-year low.

With a view to Washington, a US official said on Friday that the national guards stationed there would soon be equipped with weapons. “At the instruction of the Defense Minister, members of the JTF DC, who support the mission to reduce the crime rate in the capital of our country, will soon be deployed with their service weapons,” said the defense officer with a view to the security forces.

At the beginning of the mission, the troops said that “weapons are available if necessary”, but should remain in the weapon chamber.

At the moment, more than 1900 soldiers of the National Guard are stationed in Washington, who come from the capital itself and from the republican states of West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.

In June, Trump had already mobilized the National Guard and Marine Fanter in Los Angeles to end protests against his immigration policy. It was the first time in 60 years that a US president sent the national guard against the will of the local authorities.