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"Donald Trump is targeting Los Angeles, the biggest city in deep-blue
California – a sprawling metropolis shaped by immigrant communities that the
president described on Tuesday as a “trash heap” – with a show of force many
years in the making.
After his first term, Trump expressed regret for not taking a more heavy-handed
approach to the 2020 protests over George Floyd’s murder by police. So when
demonstrations against his immigration crackdown erupted last week in Los
Angeles, he turned to the playbook he wished he had used then – federalizing
the national guard and deploying hundreds of US marines to confront what
Democratic officials insist was a manageable situation, escalated by a
president who the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has warned is increasingly
behaving like a “dictator”.
It’s the made-for-TV clash Trump has been waiting for: visually gripping scenes
of unrest in a Democratic-run city furious over his administration’s mass
deportation agenda.
“Chaos is exactly what Trump wanted, and now California is left to clean up the
mess,” Newsom said on Twitter/X."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
