Donald Trump ends National Guard deployment in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland: ‘We will come back…’
The Trump administration had started deploying National Guard in several cities from June last year, citing crime and the 'inability' of local law enforcement bodies in maintaining law and order. Washington: The National Guard will be withdrawn from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (local time). Announcing his decision on Truth Social, the 79-year-old Republican leader said the presence of the National Guard have helped in significantly reducing crime in the above-mentioned cities, adding that they would have been 'gone' had the Federal government not intervened.ย However, the US president said that the National…