CHICAGO — President Donald Trump on Monday said he was deploying the National Guard to fight crime in Washington, D.C. — and hinted that Chicago and other major cities could be next.

But Gov. JB Pritzker dismissed claims that the federal government has the authority to send troops into Chicago, while likening the Trump Administration’s actions to those undertaken in Nazi Germany.

Flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a press conference Monday, Trump said he was sending the National Guard to Washington to “rescue our national’s capitol from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”

He also ordered a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department, D.C.’s police force.

Continuing on in his remarks, Trump said Democrat-led cities like

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