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Pritzker compares Trump to Putin, calls for invoking 25th Amendment for suggesting military use Chicago as "training grounds" (www.cbsnews.com)

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After Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested cities like Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov. JB Pritzker said the 25th Amendment should be invoked to remove the president from office, saying "there is something genuinely wrong with this man."

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war, or that indeed there's some sort of internal war going on in the United States is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health," Pritzker said Tuesday afternoon. "There is something genuinely wrong with this man, and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked."

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[-] terabytes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Look up the 2011-2013 Russia protests. He used the police, not the army, and used them to raid and arrest his opposition.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Yup, been there. I can clearly recall that police also used grenades shipped as international aid from Poland

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