MSNBC's Joe Scarborough criticized President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Democratic cities as counterfactual and plainly unconstitutional.
The president has ordered troops into Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., ostensibly to protect against violent crime, and has threatened to send more to Baltimore and Chicago, but the "Morning Joe" host said those Democratic cities are far safer than areas governed by Republicans in the South and elsewhere.
"The chance of of having violent acts committed upon you in [House Speaker] Mike Johnson's Louisiana, in red state Louisiana, red state that Donald Trump carried and every Republican has carried since Bill Clinton," Scarborough said. "The chances of of being murdered in Louisiana 400 times higher than in California. Let me say that again, let me underline that again: You have a 400 percent higher chance of being murdered in red state Louisiana, Mike Johnson's home state, than you do on the left coast in Gavin Newsom's California."
"There is no emergency, there is no logic to Chicago, to San Francisco, if you're looking at the numbers, if you're looking at data, I don't even think this Supreme Court can turn a blind eye to this," he added. "They just can't, because data is data. Numbers are numbers, and the numbers are clear, and the numbers don't justify – [there is] no emergency. Send those troops to Shreveport, Louisiana, send them to Mike Johnson's district. Send them to Little Rock, Arkansas, send them to Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Send them to red states where they need them."
All of the cities Trump has targeted have Black mayors, as well, and each of them have seen their crime rates decline in recent years.
"All of them have lower crime rates per capita than the red state cities I mentioned," Scarborough said.
"Get them away from the Apple store in Georgetown, right, get them to southeast," Scarborough added. "Get them to places where families want to be safe, but in a partnership with with the mayor, with the D.C. city council, with the very people that that that run that city day in and day out."
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