{"id":161894,"date":"2025-08-25T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-jeffries-says-president-playing-games-with-american-lives-as-national-guard-to-be-sent-to-chicago-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:20:33","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-jeffries-says-president-playing-games-with-american-lives-as-national-guard-to-be-sent-to-chicago-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-jeffries-says-president-playing-games-with-american-lives-as-national-guard-to-be-sent-to-chicago-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Jeffries says president \u2018playing games\u2019 with American lives as national guard to be sent to Chicago – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

House minority leader decries plan confirmed by Pentagon while Chicago mayor calls it \u2018most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century\u2019 \u2013 key US politics stories from Sunday 24 August
Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader and New York Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump<\/a> had \u201cmanufactured a crisis\u201d to justify sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago<\/a> next, over the heads of local leaders.
Jeffries<\/a>, appearing on CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday, accused the US president of \u201cplaying games with the lives of Americans\u201d with his unprecedented domestic deployment of the military, which has escalated to include the arming of troops<\/a> currently patrolling Washington DC \u2013 after sending troops<\/a> into Los Angeles in June.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, said any such plan from Trump was perpetrating \u201cthe most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century\u201d.
Here are the key Trump administration<\/a> news stories of the day:
Planning is under way to send national guard troops to Chicago<\/a>, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday, as House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries accused Donald Trump of \u201cplaying games with the lives of Americans\u201d.
\u201cWe won\u2019t speculate on further operations. The department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel,\u201d a Department of Defense official said, according to ABC.
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France summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France<\/a> had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence, a French foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Sergei Lavrov, Moscow\u2019s most senior diplomat, praised efforts by Donald Trump<\/a> to end the war, in an interview on NBC on Sunday, while US vice-president JD Vance said Washington would \u201ckeep on trying\u201d to broker talks in the absence of a deal.
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In the opening weeks of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second term, Gavin Newsom<\/a> wagered that peacemaking was best: a tarmac greeting for Air Force One, an Oval Office visit and a podcast slot for Maga\u2019s biggest names. But then Trump came for California<\/a>, and its governor dropped the niceties.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The president and his allies have been accused of executing a \u201cpattern of lawfare\u201d akin to those exerted by authoritarian regimes in Hungary and Russia after adopting a new strategy to target political opponents: allegations of mortgage fraud.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The justice department is alleging in a new court filing<\/a> that three Smartmatic executives who were indicted last year on bribery and money-laundering charges transferred money from a 2018 voting machine contract with Los Angeles county into slush funds<\/strong> that were originally set up to pay bribes to overseas election officials.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Saturday 23 August 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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