Conservative attorney George Conway on MSNBC on August 25, 2025

Conservative attorney and political analyst George Conway said Monday President Donald Trump’s takeover of blue cities is a “prescription for disaster,” adding that “somebody is going to get hurt.”

During a segment on MSNBC Monday evening, Conway went on to say cops are acting like “thugs” and it’s becoming hard to tell the difference between security personnel and thugs because the cops cover their faces while making arrests.

Earlier on Monday, Trump announced plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago as part of a broader federal crackdown on crime in Democratic-led cities, after already taking similar actions in Washington, D.C.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) slammed the proposal, denouncing it as unconstitutional, politically motivated, and an abuse of power — accusing Trump of "manufacturing a crisis."

He emphasized during a presser that Illinois hasn’t requested federal help and pledged legal resistance, warning of court challenges if the federal government attempts deployment without state permission.

In his comments on MSNBC, Conway added that Republicans have traditionally been federalists, and they didn’t support federal takeover even if they didn’t like the governors of some states. He called Trump’s actions a “power grab,” saying the federal takeover of blue cities has nothing to do with crime.

“This is a power grab. It's got nothing to do with street crime. The statistics, as you showed, show that the red states have bigger problems in some ways than, than California and New York and D.C., and they also show that in many cases, like in the District of Columbia, crime has been going down,” he said.

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