IMHO, this decision by Trump should be understood as:
Donald Trump is saying if a terrorist attack occurs anywhere, in the United States, he hopes it will happen in a Democratic led state, and he’s willing to help the odds in favor of that happening.
He is willing to boost the odds for Democratic states suffering terrorist attacks. If his citizens are going to die, he actually wants those deaths to be in blue states.
You know, that every accusation is a confession with Trump, is something we’ve all realized by now. Everything is projection.
In that vein, he has identified Democrats, American citizens, as “the enemy within”. His words. His identification. And his projection. As a president acting in this way, he is identifying himself as the true “enemy within”. It’s just always projection, when it comes down to it.
So, a Rhode island judge has temporarily blocked Trump’s plans to increase the odds of a terrorist attack in Democratic led states.
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting $233 million in counterterrorism grant funds for Democratic-led states, including New York and Illinois.
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- A federal judge in Rhode Island on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting $233 million in counterterrorism grant funds for Democratic-led states, including New York and Illinois.
Eleven states sued the Trump administration on Monday over last-minute changes to counterterrorism grants, saying that Republican President
Donald Trump was retaliating against Democratic-led states by redirecting funding away from them just as the fiscal year ends.
The states said they needed a next-day restraining order, or else the funds would expire before they had a chance to challenge Trump's action in court.
U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy agreed, saying the funds had been cut in a "slapdash" manner that likely violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which prohibits the government from making arbitrary or capricious decisions.
McElroy issued a temporary restraining order that prevented the Trump administration from diverting the counterterrorism funds until the court case has a chance to play out.
The timing of the funding cuts was concerning, McElroy said, because they were made just as the fiscal year was ending and just three days after a different federal judge
blocked the Trump administration from withholding DHS funds from 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia.