A MAGA congressman was caught making a gross exaggeration of homicide charges in Portland and Chicago as he sought to defend his boss defying the courts to ship troops there. North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan, a former Inexperienced Beret who serves on the Home Armed Companies Committee, waved away considerations about Donald Trump’s use of federalized Nationwide Guard to “shield ICE and federal amenities” within the Democrat-run states. He informed CNN that calling locations like Chicago and Portland “struggle zones” wasn’t flawed as a result of they’re “placing up stats of about 50 murders a weekend.”
