“When you have military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting. And so when you now start seeing the politicization of the military deliberately —” he said, before Haron chimed in with, “They just landed in Chicago.”

“Yeah,” the former president continued, before saying Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, which was sent to cities including Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Chicago, is in violation of a federal law known as the Posse Comitatus Act.

The law, signed in 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes, “says you don’t use our military on domestic soil unless there is an extraordinary emergency of some sort,” Obama said, before adding “When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy.”