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Former President Obama slammed President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Illinois on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday.
“If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, ‘You know what? A lot of problems in Dallas, a lot of crime there, and I don’t care what [Texas Gov. Greg] Abbott says. I’m going to kind of take over law enforcement, because I think things are out of control.’ It is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded,” Obama told Maron.
“When I used to travel around the world, this is back when democracy promotion was still bipartisan,” Obama said with a laugh. “[Former President] George