THE POSSE COMITATUS PRESIDENCY: TRUMP'S STANDING ARMY ON AMERICAN STREETS
-The National Guard was just the beginning.
-One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception.
-When Trump declared a supposed “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., called in the National Guard, unleashed federal law enforcement throughout the city and temporarily seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, we warned that the police state had found a new playbook: martial law, one city at a time.
-The emergency is long over.
-The troops never left.
-Now the Pentagon says the National Guard deployment can remain in Washington until January 20, 2029—the final day of Trump’s presidency—unless Trump himself decides to terminate it sooner.
-That is not an emergency response.
-That is a standing military presence.
-The government expects American taxpayers to spend another $1.4 billion maintaining it.
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