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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump has said helium is consenting to nonstop the National Guard to Chicago to assistance with transgression but that Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker won't admit determination are problems successful the city.
"He goes, 'We don't request his help,'" Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. "Crime successful D.C. was the worst it ever was. We've worked truthful hard. We've taken implicit a 1000 criminals. ... He should beryllium calling maine and saying, 'Can you nonstop implicit the troops?'"
Pritzker has called Trump's program to bring successful the National Guard unconstitutional.
During a ceremonial Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson addressed Trump's comments, saying Chicago is not going to "police its mode retired of violence" and that different methods are needed extracurricular of conscionable policing.
Trump deed back, saying that Johnson's support standing is debased and that Black women successful Chicago person been calling for his assistance to travel into Chicago, saying they "don't privation their sons and daughters killed."
Some lawmakers NewsNation spoke to said they would invited national assistance successful bringing transgression down but uncertainty that it's Trump's motive. Pritzker said helium has not had immoderate conversations with Trump connected coordination to bring successful the National Guard and that it's a wide denotation that helium has ulterior motives.
"This is not astir warring crime, this is astir Donald Trump searching for immoderate justification to deploy the subject successful a bluish metropolis successful a bluish authorities to effort and intimidate his governmental rivals," Pritzker said.
Illinois AG Kwame Raoul told Blake Burman connected "The Hill" that the authorities is acceptable to judge national assistance, but deploying the National Guard would not beryllium justified.
While Chicago is referenced arsenic the "murder capital" of America, transgression is going down successful astir each class from execution to conveyance theft. Some residents accidental with transgression going down, determination is nary request for unit deployment, and alternatively privation to spot much backing toward transgression prevention initiatives.
However, 1 radical successful Chicago is welcoming the thought of troops coming into the city. Conservative advocacy radical Chicago Flips Red says the city's neighborhoods are retired of control.
"When transgression is down, the citizens are going to archer you that, due to the fact that we are going to consciousness safe," Danielle Carter-Walters with Chicago Flips Red told NewsNation. "We're retired successful the streets, boots connected the crushed truthful this is our experience. So erstwhile we nary longer person 4 wide shootings successful the span of 1 month, we volition archer you we're safe."
