Illinois Governor JB Pritzker blasted President Donald Trump after he threatened on Friday to target Chicago as the next city to send federal troops to, purportedly to fight crime, as he has done in other Democratic strongholds. Trump has deployed nearly 2,000 National Guard members in his current campaign in Washington, D.C., after deploying 2,000 in Los Angeles in June in the wake of protests over aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next, that’ll be our next one after this, and it won’t even be tough,” Trump said on Friday, confirming previous reporting from Rolling Stone that his administration was eyeing Chicago for a militarize

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