Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s deploying the National Guard to Democratic-led cities across the country is not politically motivated, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview the Republican president is “not targeting anything.”

“I completely concur with the president when he says if … this administration is against crime, then the opposite position was what? Are you for crime? And so this is, what seems to me, should be non-partisan,” Burgum said.

“When you take a look at the top 20 or 25 largest cities in this country, virtually all of those are the ones that have crime issues, and virtually all of those are run by, you know, a particular party, and so this isn’t really a partisan thing,” he continued.

Trump has deployed the National Gua

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