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Trump lost the battle. Will he win the "war?"

Trump lost the battle. Will he win the "war?"

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Why is Trump sending the National Guard to cities when crime is
already falling?

Earlier this month, President Trump posted this: “I love the smell
of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it's
called the Department of WAR.” He seemed poised to send the
National Guard to the city in an attempt to curb crime, after
having deployed them in D.C. But this week, he turned his attention
to Memphis, signing an order for deployment there and vowing to
circle back to Chicago later. And these three cities aren’t the
only ones on his radar: Baltimore, Portland, New Orleans, and St.
Louis are also bracing for possible deployments. But why send the
National Guard – a temporary military force – to these cities when
crime has already fallen this year in every single city he’s
mentioned? Brittany gets into it with Abdallah Fayyad, policy
correspondent at Vox, and Alex V. Hernandez, neighborhood reporter
for Block Club Chicago.

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