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Monday evening returning from the Middle East peace summit on
Air Force One, Trump said Pritzker should ask for help with
public safety.
“I think he should beg for help because he's running a bad
operation,” Trump told reporters. “He's letting people be killed
in his city because he doesn't want it,” referring to a callus
of the National Guard.
Clashes between law enforcement and protesters continued into
Tuesday with chemical agents being deployed to scatter a growing
crowd in Chicago surrounding federal immigration enforcement.
After an unrelated event Tuesday afternoon in Hampshire,
Pritzker reacted.
“We don't want troops on the ground and we don't want
[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] officials or [Customs and
Border Patrol] abusing people on the streets of Chicago or any
of our suburbs, or, frankly, anywhere in Illinois or the
country,” Pritzker said.
Trump said Tuesday at a ceremony for Illinois native Charlie
Kirk that his administration is “done with angry mobs.”
Pritzker said he will continue to fight what he characterized as
the Trump administration’s overreach.
“And we're going to do everything that we can, again, to protect
our residents, but also to get the courts to step in and stop
them from abusing just everyday people that they are firing gas
pellets and, rubber bullets,” Pritzker said.
While the courts have stopped Trump of deploying the National
Guard to Chicago at this point, the president said he has the
right to use the Insurrection Act, but he’d rather have
cooperation.
“Fifty percent of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act
because they don't want to go through this stuff with somebody
who said ‘there's no crime’ and 4,000 people get shot,” Trump
said.
The Trump administration’s motion to overturn a lower court’s
temporary restraining was denied. The case is still pending with
the Guard’s deployment blocked.
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