White House pushes National Guard troops despite Pritzker pushback

There is no reason for Americans to live in fear, as President Donald Trump floats the National Guard forces to other cities to treat crime as it was in Washington, the White House insists.

While the leaders of Illinois, including the JB Pritzker governor, have made clear that they were not interested in receiving the National Guard forces in Chicago, the White House said it would welcome the requests of Republican and Democratic leaders to obtain additional law enforcement support to reduce crime in American cities.

“This is our message to the Americans in the cities run by Democrats at the country level: the decline is a choice,” White House journalist Caroline Levitte told reporters on Thursday. “You do not have to live a constant fear of being stolen, rape or murder. Your leaders lying to you, and they have failed for decades for decades.

The White House is accused by Pritzker, Illinois Deadman from the whine while the Chicago crime is heading

“The ruler Pritzker must spend less time in the police demonstration, more time trying to recruit more police and more time in an attempt to contact the President of the United States to obtain a crime in his city under control,” Levitte said. “The president wants to allow law enforcement, whether the state, local, federal, to take their jobs, arrest criminals, put them behind bars and remove public safety threats from American societies. He will continue to do so.”

Pritzker, a democratic person who did not rule out the candidacy for the presidency in 2028, was against the possibility of the National Guard forces to reach Chicago to treat the crime and said on Monday that the move would be “unconstitutional” and “non -American”.

“Donald Trump wants to use the army to occupy an American city, punish the dissidents and register political points,” said Pritzker. “If this is happening in any other country, we will not face any problem calling it what it is – seizing dangerous power.”

the government. Pritzker says Trump is trying to “manufacture a crisis” while the supervisor is planning to deploy the National Guard in Chicago

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker makes notes in Chicago alongside Mayor Brandon Johnson and other officials after reports that the White House was preparing to deploy the National Guard forces to the city. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson said in a statement on Friday that the crime had decreased in Chicago and said that the city last year reduced the murders by more than 30 %, a 35 % aft and the shooting by approximately 40 %.

But the White House continued to refer to local reports that Chicago had received most of the murders in any American city over 13 years, starting with the latest data 2024.

“For 13 consecutive years, Chicago has been subjected to the largest murder in any American city,” Levitte said on Thursday. “This is the JB Pritzker legacy, by the way.”

The mayor of Chicago calls a plan for the publication of the National Guard of Trump, “uncomfortable, not owned and not sound”

The National Guard forces stood at the Al -Ittihad station, days after it was deployed in the city, on the road from the American Capitol building. (Fox News Digital/Emma Woodhead)

“He must set the policy aside,” Levit said. “He must pick up the phone and invite this president, who will be more than happy to carry out the American population committed to law in Chicago. We hope it will be.”

Chicago does not have the largest number of individual killings and has not been listed in the five best cities to kill an individual in groups of 2024 FBI data.

Trump has revealed August 11 plans to mobilize forces from the National Guard in the capital and issued a federation of the Capital Police Department to treat crime in the country’s capital. Since then, Trump has indicated that he may send the National Guard forces to other cities in the United States, including Chicago.

“We will enter, we’ll get Chicago within one week, and perhaps less,” Trump told reporters on Monday morning. “But within one week, we will not face a crime in Chicago, like the lack of a crime in the capital.”