President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. The officials said they would not be deterred.

Watch Pritzker’s remarks in the video player above.

“What kind of a country are we living in where the president of the United States is targeting his political opponents?” Pritzker told the press on the sidelines of a union protest in Chicago.

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Trump wrote on Truth Social that Johnson and Pritzker “should be in jail for failing to protect” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers amid his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.

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