I don't know if he can do this. It does put some pressure on the obese incompetent Pritzker to do something about runaway crime in Chicago (and throughout the blue areas of the state).
President Donald Trump says Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is incompetent, that he may send the National Guard into Chicago and will work to reverse the end of cash bail.
In announcing federal law enforcement actions in Washington D.C. on Monday, Trump said he may send the National Guard to keep the peace in places with heavy crime.
"And if we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster," Trump said. "We have a mayor there who's totally incompetent. He's an incompetent man. And we have an incompetent governor. That Pritzker's an incompetent. His family threw him out of the business, and he ran for governor."
Trump even went as far as adding to speculation that Pritzker is running for president in 2028.
"And now I understand he wants to be president, but I noticed he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance," Trump said. "You know, you never know what happens. But Pritzker is a gross, incompetent guy, thrown out of the family business."
Later in the day Monday, Pritzker said Trump has no right or legal ability to send troops into the city of Chicago.
"As to everything else that he had to say this morning, I guess I should say thank you for the compliment," Pritzker said at an unrelated event.
Pritzker said Trump is a cheater, a convicted felon and has declared bankruptcy several times. As to his political future, Pritzker said the only decisions he's made is to run for a third term as governor.
Trump also said he's got more he is taking aim at across the country concerning public safety, including ending no-cash bail.
"That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started and bad leadership started it. But that was the one thing that's central. No cash bail," Trump said. "Somebody murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out. We're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to change the statute."
Illinois ended cash bail statewide in 2023, being the first state to do so.
The Network for Pretrial Justice said in a statement Monday that Trump's policies hurt poor people and people of color, and that dangerous people are not flooding the streets. They argue violent crime has decreased since the start of no-cash bail.
President Donald Trump is calling on Congress to pass legislation banning cashless bail across the country, a move that would override local laws allowing defendants to be released before trial without posting bail money.
The proposal has met resistance from some state leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who defended recent changes to the state's 2019 bail reform law.
I don't think Republicans will go along with a federalization of state bail laws, even if they agree that blue states should change their laws.
Meanwhile, the woke racist incompetent geek Brandon Johnston has Chicago on the edge of bankruptcy.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sounded the alarm Tuesday about Chicago's finances.
"We have reached a point of no return," Mayor Johnson said Tuesday. "The systems that people rely upon education, health care, housing, our transportation � they are woefully underfunded, and everyone knows that. Everyone knows what, you know, my commitment is to progressive revenue. I can't do this by myself."
LOL. Like this nasty Black KKK twerp is doing anything constructive.
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Johnson said the state needs new progressive revenue options, but he did not name any specific plans.
The city of Chicago has a massive $1.1 billion budget gap to fill for 2026. Mayor Johnson promising has promised not to once again pitch a property tax hike -- which the City Council unanimously rejected for 2025 -- but said last week he's looking at creative ways to raise tax dollars.
The menu on that table appears to target Chicago's ultra-rich. Johnson said he is looking for ways to extract more tax dollars from the 127,000 millionaires who now call Chicago home, as well as the 25 billionaires residing inside the city limits.