(The Center Square) – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he and Gov. J.B. Pritzker are on the same page about President Donald Trump not having authority to send National Guard troops to the city.

Trump called Pritzker and Johnson “incompetent” on Monday and suggested that he could send the National Guard to reduce violence in Chicago.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said at his press availability Tuesday that the president does not have the legal authority to send federal troops to Chicago.

“He is provoking on sending federal troops, the National Guard, into cities to plunder them, though those entities do not have policing power. So, they can’t even do the very thing that he claims he wants them to do. You talk about incompetence,” Johnson said.

At a separate event the previous day,

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