WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday responded to an offer by the Maryland governor to join him on a tour of Baltimore, saying he would “send troops.”
Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York to deploy troops similar to those unlocked in the country’s capital with thousands of National Guard and federal law enforcement officials. Patrol the streets.
Trump poses a threat to Baltimore with nausea with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat who criticized Trump’s unprecedented federal forces aimed at fighting crime and homelessness in Washington. Moore invited Trump last week to visit his state to discuss public safety and walk on the streets.
In Sunday’s Truth Social Post, Trump said Moore asked “in a rather nasty and provocative tone,” and raised the ghost of repeating the National Guard deployment he had done In Los Angeles Regarding objections from California’s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom.
“Wes Moore’s crime records are very bad unless he fuds his numbers on crime, like many other “blue nations” do,” Trump wrote. “But if Wes Moore needs help, like Wes Moore did in LA, I’ll send out the ‘armies’ that are happening in nearby DC to quickly clean up crime. ”
Moore said he invited Trump to Maryland.
“The president spends all his time talking about me,” Moore said Sunday on CBS “face to face.” “I spend my time talking about the people I serve.”
After pushing National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials into Washington this month, Trump said Chicago and New York are most likely. His next targetelicited a strong push back from Democrat leaders in both states. Washington Post Reported on Saturday The Department of Defense spent weeks preparing operations in Chicago, including the National Guard and potentially active duty forces.
Asked about the post report, the White House Trump’s previous comments We discuss his desire to expand the use of the military to target local crime.
“I think Chicago will be the next,” Trump told White House reporters Friday, adding, “And they’ll help out New York.”
Trump has repeatedly described some of the nation’s largest cities run by Democrats. Black mayor A majority minority group – dangerous and dirty. Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott is just like Moore, and is black. The District of Columbia and New York areas also have black mayors.
Speaking on Sunday’s religious events at Howard University in Washington, Pastor Al Sharpton said the presence of security guards in the country’s capital was not related to crime. “This is about profiling us.”
“This is caught up in prejudice and racism,” he later elaborated to reporters. “No one white mayor has been designated. I think this is a civil rights issue, a racial issue, a DC issue.”
Illinois Governor JB Pretzker said there are Democrats. There are no emergency situations Ensures the deployment of Chicago National Guard.
“Donald Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis, politicizing Americans in uniforms and continuing to abuse the power to distract them from the pain that is causing their families,” Pretzker said. I wrote it on x. “We will follow the law, stand up to the sovereignty of our nation and continue to protect the Illinois.”
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Cooper reported from Phoenix.
