Trump backs down on sending National Guard into Chicago, LA and Portland

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” he said in a social media post Wednesday.

Governors typically control states’ National Guardsmen, and Trump had deployed troops to all three cities against...