President Donald Trump speaks with members of law enforcement and National Guard soldiers Thursday in Washington. AP

President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago could receive similar treatment from the federal government as Washington, D.C., where nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to quell what the president’s administration has characterized as an influx in dangerous crime.

Despite calling Chicago the nation’s “greatest city,” he criticized Democratic mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership. “When we’re ready, we’ll go in and straighten out Chicago, just like we did D.C.,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

By accusing D.C. police of falsifying crime data and threatening the mayor with a “total Federal takeover,” he’s sought to muscle the city’s leadership into subm

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