President Donald Trump Friday suggested that federal troops could be deployed to Chicago amid his efforts to crack down on crime, repeating a threat that both Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson have said would be illegal.

During a press conference Friday in the Oval Office, Trump said Chicago could be next to receive federal intervention, similar to Washington, D.C., where nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have been deployed to address what his administration has described as a surge in violent crime, even though D.C. officials say crime is falling in their city.

“Chicago is a mess, you have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent and we will straighten that one out next,” Trump said referring to Mayor Brandon Johnson. “That will be our next one after this, and it won’t even b

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