Credit: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
President Donald Trump was asked if he had decided to send National Guard troops to Chicago and said, “We’re going in,” but added. “I didn’t say when.”
Trump said he’d like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, to call him and say “send in the troops.”
“If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we’re going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it,” Trump said.
He said he has an “obligation to protect this country, and that includes intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition
