Joe Holleman | Post-Dispatch

Political correspondent/columnist

When it comes to sending National Guard troops to St. Louis to help fight crime, President Donald Trump continues to talk about it.

On Monday, Trump said such a deployment could soon be coming to St. Louis. He made his remarks during a press conference in the Oval Office after he signed a memo directing the National Guard and other federal personnel to Memphis.

"We want to save these places," Trump said, referring to Chicago and St. Louis, noting that Chicago was "probably next."

The possibility first came to light Friday, when Trump mentioned it on the Fox News show "Fox & Friends."

But since that mention, the offices of GOP U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt — as well as Democratic U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell, whose dist

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