In the week leading up to his announcement of a “surge” of hundreds of FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security personnel to Chicago, Donald Trump wanted a bigger, more public, more violent fight on the streets of the Windy City. According to three people familiar with the president’s private remarks
In the week leading up to his announcement of a “surge” of hundreds of FBI, Justice Department, and Homeland Security personnel to Chicago, Donald Trump wanted a bigger, more public, more violent fight on the streets of the Windy City.
But by the time Wednesday afternoon came, the president, Attorney General William Barr, and other administration brass had settled—at least for now—on something less overt that they could sell to the American people: an expansion of Operation Legend, a DOJ-driven law-and-order initiative that administration officials have gone out of their way to stress is distinct from the vicious federal intervention led by DHS in Portland.
Those who’ve been close to Trump over the years see a familiar pattern: a president who so often demands large-scale, draconian, and potentially disastrous action, with senior officials actively working to temper, or inflame, those desires. Sometimes, the president follows through. Other times, he’s easily talked down by aides, backs off for fear of the nasty publicity, or simply gets bored and forgets about it entirely.
“We can see from what happened in Portland that what these secret police do only exacerbates the situation. It’s a complete disregard for the human and constitutional rights of protesters, and it’s a racist political gambit Trump is doing in desperation because he’s losing in the polls,” Flint Taylor, the Chicago attorney who has spent decades litigating against police violence, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
Senior Pentagon officials said they had not been asked to participate in either Operation Legend or in the response to protests in Portland. National Guard officials in Chicago, though, were wary of Trump-Barr announcement Wednesday, telling The Daily Beast that their troops “wouldn’t participate” in assisting Operation Legend task forces unless under direct explicit direction from the governor. “And that’s not something the state is going to do right now,” one of those officials said.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats would normalize the string of violence and destruction we’ve seen from their supporters instead of stand up to it,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Samantha Zager said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “President Trump will continue to enforce law and order to protect the fabric of our nation, even as Democrats do everything in their power to avoid holding these criminals accountable.
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