President Trump said on Wednesday that he is removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland.

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in,” Trump said on Truth Social.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time! It is hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made???” he added.

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National Guard troops have not, for the most part, been on the ground for at least several weeks in Los Angeles and although deployed to Portland, Oregon and Chicago, they were never on the streets due to legal challenges. In California, nearly all of the initial 4,000 California guardsmen and 700 Marines deployed left the state during the summer.

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The move comes hours after the administration dropped its fight to try to keep California National Guard troops under federal control, giving the Democratic state a win in a months-long legal battle.

Last week, the Supreme Court weighed in on the president’s controversial use of military troops. Its Dec. 23 decision blocked deployments from moving forward in Chicago as legal challenges unfold.

And earlier in November, a U.S. District Judge ruled the Trump administration had violated the 10th Amendment in sending troops to Portland, and that the deployments “exceeded the President’s authority.”

Previously, there has been discussion of Trump possibly invoking the Insurrection Act.

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More from the Associated Press:

The president has made a crackdown on crime in cities a centerpiece of his second term — and has toyed with the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act to stop his opponents from using the courts to block his plans.

He has said he sees his tough-on-crime approach as a winning political issue ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

In November, U.S. Northern Command had said it was ” shifting and/or rightsizing ″ operations in Portland, Chicago and Los Angeles, but there would be a “constant, enduring and long-term presence in each city.”

Trump’s push to deploy the troops in Democrat-led cities has been met with legal challenges at nearly every turn.

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The Supreme Court in December refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area as part of its crackdown on immigration. The order was not a final ruling but was a significant and rare setback by the high court for the president’s efforts.

In the nation’s capital, District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued to halt the deployments of more than 2,000 guardsmen.

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