Trump Escalates Assault on Chicago With “Operation Midway Blitz”

The Trump administration explained on Monday that it was launching an operation targeting criminal illegal aliens in Chicago dubbed Operation Midway Blitz The announcement came two days after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting himself as Lt Col Bill Kilgore from Francis Ford Coppola s Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now In the film Kilgore an Air Cavalry Regiment commander who refers to Vietnamese people with a number of vile slurs annihilates a village to secure a beach for surfing Trump s AI image was captioned with a riff on the character s majority of famous line I love the smell of deportations in the morning Chicago about to find out why it s called the Department of WAR the president s post continued It came a day after Trump signed an executive order changing the Defense Department s name to the Department of War Following backlash to his threat to make war on America s third largest city Trump assured Chicagoans that Only the Criminals will be hurt in another post That has not reassured Chicago s elected bureaucrats Trump swore an oath to protect the American people and defend the Constitution Instead he is declaring war on every American including Chicagoans who stands against his fascist agenda Congressmember Delia Ramirez D-Ill communicated The Intercept Attacking American cities and wasting billions of dollars on unlawful initiatives while cutting essential services for working families are the tactics of wannabe dictators Trump has betrayed his Constitutional duties and should be impeached Related Trump s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless Illinois Gov J B Pritzker shared a Know Your Rights pamphlet which mentions that ICE officers can be required to present a warrant on X on Saturday He encouraged those witnessing arrests to film them and share them with media organizations Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation relaxed with the current atrocities committed under the color of law what comes next he urged during a Sunday press conference Sen Tammy Duckworth D-Ill a former Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard who lost her legs and partial use of her right arm in combat in Iraq also took exception to Trump s Kilgore post but for different reasons Take off that Cavalry hat you draft dodger You didn t earn the right to wear it Stolen valor at its worst she wrote on X On Friday Duckworth visited Naval Station Great Lakes which local news outlets have released the Trump administration is using as a base for federal troops in Chicago Duckworth wrote on X that Navy personnel answered questions but that Trump s DHS locked the doors and fled She continued That s not how you act when you re doing something legal Experts including a federal judge say that the increasing use of military forces in the interior of the U S represents an extraordinary violation of the Posse Comitatus Act a bedrock th-century law fundamental to the democratic tradition that makes it illegal to use American federal troops on domestic soil as a presidential police force U S District Judge Charles Breyer ruled last week that the Pentagon systematically used armed soldiers to perform police functions in California in violation of Posse Comitatus and planned to do so elsewhere President Trump and Secretary Hegseth he wrote have stated their intention to call National Guard troops into federal utility in other cities across the country thus creating a national police force with the President as its chief Trump has also threatened to deploy National Guard troops to Baltimore New York City New Orleans and Oakland He thanked himself for turning Washington into a SAFE ZONE in a Truth Social post on Monday adding Who s Next Members of Congress have called out Trump s tyrannical tactics The founders of this nation understood that an unchecked power to turn the military on the American people poses a grave threat to democracy and individual liberty reported Sen Dick Durbin D-Ill Trump s decision to deploy the military in American cities is more fitting for an authoritarian regime than the democracy that our nation s founding fathers fought for Last week The Intercept informed that a U S military occupation of Chicago could cost almost million per day according to an specific expert estimate Hanna Homestead of the National Priorities Project a nonpartisan research group identified that if Trump deployed National Guard troops to Chicago it would cost taxpayers around per day The figure exceeded the more than million daily price tag of Trump s troop deployment in Washington D C which The Intercept released last month These runaway expenses connected to Trump s efforts to turn the U S into a genuine police state are expected to climb into the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars Pritzker s office called out the costs Governor Pritzker has been loud and clear sending military into a U S city without any local coordination is unconstitutional and un-American a spokesperson for the governor explained The Intercept noting that the funds would be better spent on group violence interventions job training programs or mentoring Instead of undermining our existing populace safety efforts with fear campaigns or military troops the people of Illinois deserve real leadership that delivers real solutions Related The Los Angeles Schoolteacher Leading the Fight Against ICE California Gov Gavin Newsom mentioned last week that the deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles which began June peaked at around personnel and has since dwindled to about National Guardsmen has cost million and amounts to millions of taxpayer dollars down the drain A previous Pentagon estimate put the cost of the deployment at million The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the prospective cost of domestic troop deployments running into the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars The post 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