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President Donald Trump posted to social media Wednesday that Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers.”

Pritzker in turn said he won’t back down and taunted Trump to “Come and get me” in a Wednesday TV interview. Johnson responded: “this is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested” and reiterated that “I’m not going anywhere.”

The war of words came as Trump sent Texas National Guard members to Illinois, even as a judge scheduled a Thursday hearing to consider the move’s legality.

Trump also said this week he’d consider invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 as justification of military occupation in U.S. cities.

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