WASHINGTON – Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the city is ready with legal and emergency response plans in the event that President Donald Trump tries to deploy the National Guard in the city.

“You have to be prepared,” Frey told MinnPost in an interview, calling Trump’s recent military interventions in U.S. cities a dangerous “game.”

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is also steeling for the possibility of a federal incursion.

“Sending National Guard troops to occupy American cities oversteps federal authority, undermines local control and turns our military into a political prop,” Carter said in a statement.

Trump has said he’s preparing to send National Guard troops into Democrat-run cities because of what he says is out-of-control crime. He’s described Baltimore and Chicago as “hellhol

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