Is President Trump working to build his own personal army?
By Amy Goodman and Radley Balko, Democracy Now!
Investigative reporter Radley Balko responds to Trump’s new executive order for a “standing National Guard quick reaction force” that the president can deploy at will. Trump has “always expressed envy for dictators and authoritarians overseas who have forces that they can deploy to do their own sort of personal bidding, whether it’s putting down protests or going after political opponents,” says Balko, who calls the order “a really dangerous development.”
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