Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker believes Donald Trump’s calls to have him arrested is down to the president’s declining mental fitness.
In a Wednesday Truth Social post, Trump called for Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed while accusing the pair of Democrats of failing to protect ICE agents.
The president was angered by legal challenges from local officials to block the deployment of units of the National Guard to Chicago amid ongoing protests over ICE raids.
“I do not expect to be arrested, and the president of the United States says a lot of crazy things,” Pritzker told The Daily Blast podcast from The New Republic.
Playing into reports of the 79-year-old president’s alleged cognitive decline, the governor urged Trump’s family to stop letting his aides take advant