QUINCY (WGEM) - The war of words between President Donald Trump and Gov. JB Pritzker escalated dramatically this week with the president calling for both the Illinois governor and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed — and Pritzker daring him to “come and get me.”

“Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power,” Pritzker wrote on social media. “What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

Trump took to social media to say Pritzker and Johnson “ should be in jail ,” accusing them of failing to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they’ve embarked on their aggressive enforcement campaign in the Chicago region over the past month.

And it comes just days after Trump authorized the deployment of National Guard t

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