Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump’s statement that he might deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, as the White House flexes federal power in the name of fighting crime.
“We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he’s deeply unpopular,” Jeffries told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
Trump told reporters last Friday he was weighing sending troops to Chicago and New York, after federalizing Washington’s…
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