Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker criticized President Donald Trump for saying that his administration would be looking into cracking down on crime in Chicago.

In a thread on X, Pritzker accused Trump and Republicans of “trying to distract from the pain they’re causing” through the implementation of policies such as tariffs. Pritzker continued to reference how Trump had federalized the National Guard in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and accused the president of having used those cities “as his testing ground for authoritarian overreach.”

“As Donald Trump attempts to create chaos that distracts from his problems, we’ll call it out for what it is,” Pritzker wrote in his post. “Trump and Republicans are trying to distract from the pain they’re causing — from tariffs raising the p

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