President Trump revealed that New Orleans could be the next city to receive a surge of federal resources to tamp down crimes — after Democrats in Illinois signaled the help wouldn’t be welcome in Chicago.
“We’re 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’s become quite tough, quite bad?” Trump said in the Oval Office.
“So we’re going to be going to, maybe, Louisiana, and you have New Orleans, which has a crime problem. We’ll straighten that out in about two weeks. It will take us two weeks — easier than DC,” Trump said.
The president called on Chicago residents to clamor of federal intervention to address gun crimes including murder — after DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday said she would welcome a longer-term federal deployment in the capital after initially mixed local sentiment.
“But we can straighten out Chicago. All they have to do is ask us to go into Chicago, if we don’t have the support of some of these politicians. But I’ll tell you who is supporting us, the people of Chicago, and I sort of want them to let it be known they have incompetent people.”
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