Joy Behar alleges Trump will use National Guard to block next election

Joy Behar (pictured) has suggested that Donald Trump will use the National Guard to block the next election. The Trump administration has launched plans to reduce crime in Democratic cities by deploying the National Guard to Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tennessee, with plans to send troops to Chicago, Illinois.

During a discussion on The View about Trump's use of federal troops this Tuesday, Behar claimed the president's actions are a sign he will abuse his power when it comes time to vote in 2028. 'This is a pretext to stop the next election. That's what I think it is,' she said. Before making her wild prediction, Behar's co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, recognized the crime issue in the US and touched upon why she believes Trump is handling the issue wrong.

'It’s not the way to address the problem if it even is as significant as it is,' she said. 'There is crime in American cities, but the way to deal with it is to get the funding that you need for police, get the training that you need, and work with local officials.' Behar nearly interrupted Griffin twice to get out her opinion on Trump's tactics against crime. Whoopi Goldberg chimed in to add what she believes is the mindset behind the government orders. The 83-year-old comedian addressed Goldberg: 'And if they stop us from voting, that's the one thing people have.' Goldberg then said to Behar: 'It's the one thing that makes us different from lots of other countries. Our votes do count, I do know that they count.'

To which Behar interrupted: 'If we were allowed to vote.' Goldberg answered: 'I think people will figure out how to vote. One thing I believe I know about Americans is that they don’t want to be told what to do. They don’t want a dictatorship.' Co-host Sara Haines also shared her own theory behind the plans. 'I would say it might also be a distraction from the hearing that's going on about the Epstein files,' she claimed. 'Some things have come up, and AG (Attorney General) Pam Bondi was dodging questions and attacking back.' The live studio audience applauded her theory.

Some Trump supporters have been slowly turning on the administration over its failure to release an alleged list of clients connected to the late [expletive], dubbed The Epstein List. On September 2, an enormous collection of Justice Department files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was released to the public, including the missing minute from surveillance footage of his prison cell. The House Oversight Committee has been reviewing 33,295 pages of files related to the late [expletive] 2019 death in custody while awaiting trial on sexual trafficking charges. While the Trump administration deals with the fallout over the Epstein debacle, National Guard troops have been stationed outside Chicago.

More troops could be in Memphis by Friday as the Trump administration pushes ahead with an aggressive policy toward big-city crime whether local leaders support it or not. Troops from Texas had settled in at an Army Reserve center in Illinois by early Wednesday, despite a lawsuit and vigorous opposition from Democratic elected leaders. Their exact mission was not clear, though the Trump administration has an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s third-largest city, and protesters have frequently rallied at an immigration building outside Chicago in Broadview.

The president has called Chicago a 'hell hole' of crime, although police statistics show significant drops in most crimes, including homicides. In Memphis, Tennessee, Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said a small group of commanders were already in the city, planning for the arrival of Guard troops.

Republican Gov. Bill Lee has said troops will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to 'play a critical support role' for local law enforcement, though that role hasn’t been precisely defined yet. Trump’s bid to deploy the military on U.S. soil over local opposition has triggered a conflict with blue state governors. Illinois and Chicago are urging a federal judge to stop 'Trump’s long-declared "War"' on the state.

A court hearing on their lawsuit is scheduled for Thursday. In Oregon, a judge over the weekend blocked the Guard’s deployment to Portland. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has predicted that National Guard troops from the state would be activated, along with 400 from Texas. He has accused Trump of using troops as 'political props' and 'pawns,' and said he didn’t get a heads-up from Washington about their deployment.