This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification

to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.

This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller,

searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy,

militarize our cities, and end elections.

There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.

Hi again, everyone.

It's now 5 o'clock in the east on what is turning into a huge day of news.

In the last hour, we heard from that man, Illinois Governor J.B. Prisker, calling out Donald Trump's threats to send the National Guard to his city,

or his state, to the city of Chicago, which would be a repeat of what we are seeing right now

on the streets of Washington, D.C. Governor Pritzker's point there that Donald Trump twists and

turns his authority and the levers of government so he is able to intimidate his

political rivals is quite evident, not just in his command of the military, but in his handling

of what should be a politically independent arm of the executive branch, and that is our system

of justice. The latest example being Friday's search by the FBI of Donald Trump's former

national security advisor John Bolton's home and office.

Bolton, who left the first Trump White House on bad terms, has been in Donald Trump's

sites before.

One of Donald Trump's first moves when he returned to office in January was to

strip John Bolton of his security detail, despite Bolton being on the receiving end of a clear

threat from Iran over the Trump administration's killing of a major Iranian general in 2020.

Washington Post editorial board said Friday's search crossed a line.

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