WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, a few days after the US Supreme Court ruled against the administration.
"We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that crime has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and only by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were gone if it weren't for the Federal Government stepping in, " Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday (local time).
"We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again, " Trump said, calling Democrat mayors and governors of those areas "greatly incompetent."