Perennial political candidate Willie Wilson encouraged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to send the National Guard to Chicago, insisting that a military intervention could help curb violence while invoking the killing of his son in the south suburbs.

“It’s personal for me, from personal loss,” Wilson said at a news conference in the Loop. “But also personal for me as a citizen of Chicago.”

Wilson’s son, Omar, was shot and killed in July 1995 at a home in Hazel Crest after being pulled into a life of drugs and gangs. A businessman and political outsider who has lost three nonpartisan mayoral elections, Wilson opined Wednesday on Chicago’s intractable gun violence and said Democrats “haven’t been able to fix it.”

“People who happen to want to help, whatever the motive may be,” Wilson s

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