Donald Trump is readying up the Nationwide Guard to be deployed in Chicago to "kind out" town's crime disaster.
On Friday, the President had declared town was a "mess" as he vowed to "make our cities very, very secure".
And now, a bombshell new report has revealed that the Pentagon is planning to ship in hundreds of troops as quickly as September to the third most populous metropolis in the USA.
Officers accustomed to the matter informed the Washington Put up {that a} navy intervention within the metropolis has lengthy been in planning.
They added that it’ll "in all probability" contain Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice), which is able to comb by way of Barack Obama's metropolis seeking unlawful migrants.
Additionally on Friday, Mr Trump revealed that Chicagoans "are screaming for us to come back".
"They're sporting purple hats similar to this one," the Commander-in-Chief added.
"African American girls, lovely girls, are saying: 'Please, President Trump, come to Chicago. Please.'
"I did nice with the black vote, as you realize, and so they need one thing to occur.
"I believe Chicago might be our subsequent, after which we’ll assist with New York," the President jabbed.
The "Windy Metropolis", residence to some 2.7 million individuals, has seen the most important variety of killings in America in every of the previous 13 years, with 573 in 2024 alone.
However its mayor, Brandon Johnson, has mentioned he doesn’t want the navy to step in.
Mr Johnson claimed the President's method has been "uncoordinated, uncalled for and unsound."
He continued: "There are numerous issues the federal Authorities might do to assist us cut back crime and violence in Chicago, however sending within the navy will not be certainly one of them."
Nonetheless, the mayor added that whereas he took Mr Trump's feedback severely, he mentioned he had not but acquired formal communication from the administration about sending within the Nationwide Guard.
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