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Pritzker to ‘Face the Nation’: Guard not wanted, Trump is an ‘authoritarian’

Pritzker to ‘Face the Nation’:  Guard not wanted, Trump is an ‘authoritarian’

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Chicago, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker still opposes President Trump’s potential effort to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to combat what Trump calls a growing crime problems, but that Democrats like Pritzker claim just isn’t true.

Pritzker spoke about it Sunday with CBS’ Ed O’Keefe on “Face the Nation.”

“We hope that they don’t send any troops along with ICE,” said Pritzker.  “If they do, they’ll be in court pretty quickly, because that is illegal.”

At the time Pritzker spoke with O’Keefe, he said no one really knows what Trump’s plans actually are.

“No one in the administration — the President or anyone under him — have not called the City of Chicago or anyone else,” said Pritzker.  “It’s clear that, in secret, they’re planning…well, it’s an invasion, with U.S. troops.”

And if it does, Pritzker says, it would further confirm Trump is “an authoritarian” president.

I built a Holocaust museum,” said Pritzker.  “I know what the history was of a constitutional republic being overturned after an election in 53 days.  The playbook is the same.”

On Saturday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting Chicago Police officers from working with any federal authorities that come to the city.  Earlier last week, Pritzker and a number of Illinois leaders held a news conference where the Governor told Trump, “Do not come to Chicago.”

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