(Washington) The Illinois Democrat Governor, where Chicago is located, warned of an “invasion” by American soldiers from this northern United States megapol where Donald Trump wants to deploy federal police and army, officially to suppress crime.
JB Pritzker, one of the opponents in view of the Republican President, also accused the billionaire, which he has already dealt with “dictator”, of wanting to “stop” and “take control” of the mid-term legislative elections in November 2026.
After Los Angeles in June and Washington since mid-August, the Trump administration announced the upcoming sending of federal police and military, such as the national guard reserve body, in other Democratic cities such as Chicago, New York, Baltimore or Boston.
Referring to crime in Chicago, Donald Trump attacked the “soft and dismaying governor of Illinois”. He “said he doesn’t need help preventing crime. He’s crazy! ! ! It would be better to put it back on the right path, and quickly, or we will come! “, He thundered on Saturday evening on his social social account.
“Person in the government, neither the president, nor anyone under his authority, called me or whoever it is in my own administration, nor to the municipality of Chicago,” said Mr. Pritzker, who, like the 49 other governors of the United States, has authority on the national guards stationed in Illinois.
“It is therefore clear that in secret, they project an invasion by American troops,” he warned, adding that justice would be seized in the event of the deployment of soldiers.
His Democratic colleague, the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson, has signed a decree supposed to curb the authority of federal police if they were to be dispatched to his city.
“We are obliged to take draconian measures to protect our population against the expansion of federal power,” said the councilor of one of these American megapoli on Saturday, often bruised by crime.
JB Pritzker, like his counterpart Wes Moore at the head of Maryland, where Baltimore is located and who is also in the collimator of Donald Trump, have been accusing the conservative republican of “making crises” for a week to justify the sending of federal forces to democratic states.
The governor of Illinois even suspected Trump on Sunday of having “as other objectives of wanting to stop the elections in 2026, even, frankly, to take control of it”.
“He would claim that there are problems with a ballot and would then send troops on the ground to take control of it,” warned the opponent.
