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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’ll send National Guard troops to Chicago— with or without Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s approval—and Baltimore, though it’s unclear how or when the deployments will happen.
Trump said “we’re going in,” when asked if he would act on his threats to deploy federal troops to Chicago and Baltimore to tamp down on crime, but did not say when the deployments would happen.
The president said he would “love” if Pritzker called him and asked him to send in the National Guard, but said “we’re going to do it anyway, we have the right to do it.”
Trump also suggested he could scale back his Washington, D.C., crime crackdown, telling reporters the capital is "now a safe zone" and there is "no crime.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.