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Sen. Tammy Duckworth says Trump "essentially just declared war" on Chicago, but there's no "indications" of deployment
CBS Face The Nation ^ | 9/7/25 | Kaia Hubbard

Posted on 09/08/2025 7:28:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, said Sunday that President Trump "essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation" referring to his recent remarks about Chicago. But she outlined that "we don't have any indications" that the administration is getting ready to send troops into the nation's third-largest city, despite signals in recent weeks that he is preparing to do so.

"This is not normal," Duckworth said of Mr. Trump's statements on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "This is not acceptable behavior."

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Mr. Trump shared a screenshot that read "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," alongside an AI-generated image that appeared to be inspired by the movie "Apocalypse Now." On Friday, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, though a formal name change would have to go through Congress. He is expected to seek congressional approval.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; demagogicparty; demagogue; duckworth; illinois; tammyduckworth
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Well I guess Ms. Duckworth, an Army vet, is okay with crime.
1 posted on 09/08/2025 7:28:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

She needs to go back home to Thailand. She’s not an American.


2 posted on 09/08/2025 7:31:04 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Is this damn country so hard up for Judges that we have to hire Sparkle Sookananan from Trinidad?)
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To: DallasBiff

Evidently, she sees no difference between a war on criminals and a war on Chicago. Methinks she has an agenda and making the city of Chicago safer is not on that agenda.


3 posted on 09/08/2025 7:32:42 AM PDT by econjack
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To: DallasBiff

Why is declaring war on Chicago a bad thing?


4 posted on 09/08/2025 7:35:39 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: DallasBiff

Chicago is now an alien violent enclave. The majority of its residents have no values in common with most Americans. Sending in troops won’t work. Best to stop the Federal funding that keeps the Democrats in power and just ensure safe passage for any decent, rational people trapped in that hellhole.


5 posted on 09/08/2025 7:35:47 AM PDT by allendale
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To: DallasBiff

What’s a Duckworth?.........................


6 posted on 09/08/2025 7:36:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DallasBiff

This dingbat misspelled/mis-stated the word CRIME.


7 posted on 09/08/2025 7:37:29 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m telling you, if the 2026 republicans don’t frame their opponents as “your PRO-CRIME candidate............


8 posted on 09/08/2025 7:39:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: DallasBiff

“This in not acceptable behavior”—as defined by the criminal element.


9 posted on 09/08/2025 7:39:34 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: econjack

Obviously.


10 posted on 09/08/2025 7:43:12 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Along with Illan Omar.


11 posted on 09/08/2025 7:43:26 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Red Badger

About 2 cents.


12 posted on 09/08/2025 7:44:17 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: DallasBiff

The Dems are the MASTERS at confronting straw men. Take a statement, or even a humorous meme, twist the words and meaning just ever so slightly, then get greatly offended by the result.


13 posted on 09/08/2025 7:44:27 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: econjack

Evidently, she sees no difference between a war on criminals and a war on Chicago


Same is true of the situation in D.C. The G.O.P. ads are practically writing themselves.

Trump is trying to improve the lives of the law-abiding because it is the right thing to do, even if they’d never vote for him.


14 posted on 09/08/2025 7:46:20 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: DallasBiff

The National Guard should be deployed to the very worst neighborhood in Chicago, no where else. That place would become completely safe while the rest of Chicago gets worse as a lot of very bad people leave the now safe region of the city.

People all over the world would see how liberal American cities are hell holes on purpose.


15 posted on 09/08/2025 7:46:56 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She claims to be a Daughter of the Amercian Revolution. I remember when Mark Kirk rightly called her on her BS and was criticized.


16 posted on 09/08/2025 7:48:52 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: DallasBiff
Trump: I want to jail all the criminals in these cities!
Dem Politicians: Look! This fascist is declaring war on us!
Everyone: Wait, so the politicians are the criminals?
17 posted on 09/08/2025 7:49:45 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: DallasBiff
She's yet one more democrap who seems to have serious mental issues. Every other government job screens potential employees for mental problems and drugs, but Congress which makes decisions affecting millions of lives, gets a pass.

There in Congress you can be as nuts as possible, doing whatever drugs you want until you're a twitching, blinking, mass of freakish gestures like Pelosi who in front of the nation stood up and rubbed her fists together after Joe talked about vets breathing in toxic smoke from burning pits, and how dare anyone question her.

"Oooo oo!!! The toxic smoke! The toxic smoke!!


18 posted on 09/08/2025 7:52:49 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: DallasBiff

Let Washington, DC get cleaned up and serve as an example to the other Blue cities that have become murder fueled hellholes.


19 posted on 09/08/2025 7:57:00 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: DallasBiff

So by just having a police force, a local government is declaring war on all of its residents. Got it.


20 posted on 09/08/2025 8:01:02 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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