""We are making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago? Or do we go to a place like New Orleans where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that has become quite - quite tough, quite bad?" Trump said during an Oval Office meeting alongside Poland's new president."
""Oh, he did, did he? I'm sure it had nothing to do with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's kicking his ass around the block every day since he first broached the idea of invading Chicago. In New Orleans, he has a pliant MAGA-adjacent governor in Jeff Landry, who not only would welcome the invaders, but who would also eagerly sign onto whatever lie the administration wants to tell about the effect of the invasion.""
Trump wavered on deploying federal troops, asking whether to send forces to Chicago or to New Orleans while praising Governor Jeff Landry. He had earlier declared "we're going in" to Chicago but later credited federal troops for a drop in D.C. crime and signaled awareness of legal limits on expanding deployments beyond the District of Columbia. He suggested holding off on sending federal troops to states where governors oppose such moves. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker opposed deployments to Chicago. New Orleans faces serious violent crime, a history of police violence, and its mayor faced a federal indictment.
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