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Johnson said the order was necessary to stop what he described as an “unconstitutional and illegal military occupation.”
The executive order surfaced after Trump hinted he might use federal resources—including the National Guard—to tackle Chicago’s escalating crime problem.
The former President didn’t mince words. After deploying the Guard to Washington, D.C., Trump said his administration was prepared to “straighten out” Chicago next, calling the city “a mess” run by an “incompetent mayor.”
He even considered using Naval Station Great Lakes, a Navy base near Chicago, as a staging ground for Department of Homeland Security operations to help curb violence and tackle illegal immigration.
On CNN, Goldberg issued a stark warning to conservatives celebrating Trump’s use of federal power. He argued that such precedents could be used by Democrats to push their own radical agendas—particularly on gun control.
“I’m all for crime reduction. But the conservatives were celebrating this,” Goldberg said. “You listen to the mayor of Chicago talk about the gun crisis in America. Well, what is to stop—given the precedent that Donald Trump is setting—what is to stop a Democrat, a Governor Pritzker, a Governor Newsom, from saying, ‘We have a gun crisis in America, just as legitimate on the facts and arguments as a crime crisis, and we’re going to send the National Guard into states to go get their guns’? There have to be standards here.”
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Goldberg’s comments raise serious concerns among conservatives already wary of Democrat overreach. The idea of governors like Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker or California’s Gavin Newsom using military force to confiscate legally owned firearms sets off alarm bells about government abuse of power.
If Democrats ever embraced such a plan, it would undoubtedly spark a national firestorm over the Second Amendment, states’ rights, and personal freedom.
For many on the right, Goldberg’s scenario isn’t just a political talking point—it’s a warning about what could happen if power shifts in Washington and radicals decide the Constitution is nothing more than an obstacle.
