In an excerpt from this week’s Insider episode, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss President Donald Trump’s threats that he will deploy National Guard troops to major cities. Trump has already done this in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles and has floated doing the same in Chicago, New York, and Baltimore.
In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down Trump’s efforts to expand the National Guard’s role in D.C. law enforcement, and two separate DC cases of alleged law enforcement assault in which federal prosecutors failed to secure indictments before a grand jury.
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REFERENCE:
- “Deploy National Guard to Chicago? Trump Says He Has ‘The Right to Do Anything I Want to Do.’” NYT, 8/26/25
