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According to a Judge, Trump’s National Guard Deployment to LA Was Illegal.

And yet, nothing will happen.

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President Donald Trump loves to stir the pot, and that’s about as polite as I could possibly put it.

Long before his career in politics started over ten years ago in Trump Tower, the President has always loved to get people talking and draw headlines good or bad. If we’re being honest it has never really mattered to him so long as he is able to continue to draw a narrative.

Of course, it should go without saying that one of the subjects that the President has fixated his attention on and continues to pound the drum about is crime. And it makes sense, right? It’s the dangerous, fear inciting topic that gets his base riled up more than most anything else. Trump took full advantage, and now, according to a judge, his actions were illegal.

Al Jazeera reports:

A federal judge in the United States has ruled that President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the military to tamp down protests in California was illegal.

On Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer, who serves on the US District Court in Northern California, issued an injunction to block the deployment although the ruling will not take effect until September 12 and no soldiers will be immediately…

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