We'll do it! - Trump sends National Guard to hellhole Chicago

US President Donald Trump announced that National Guard troops will be deployed to Chicago, Illinois, to help fight crime, TASS news agency reports, quoted by FOKUS. The US president announced this during a briefing at the White House on September 2.

"We will deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. "I'm not saying when, but we will deploy them," Trump said, answering a question from reporters at the White House.

He cited statistics showing that 20 people have been killed and about 75 injured in shootings in Chicago in the past two weeks.

"This doesn't happen anywhere else in the world," Trump continued, calling Chicago a "hellhole" and criticizing Illinois Governor Jay Robert Pritzker.

"If the governor of Illinois called me, I would like him to do it and ask for help to deploy National Guard troops there, I would do it right away. We're going to do it anyway." We have the right to do it because I have a commitment to defend this country“, Trump emphasized, adding that he considered it possible to take similar measures with regard to Baltimore, Maryland.

Last Sunday, US Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem, in an interview with CBS television, admitted that in addition to Washington and Chicago, National Guard troops could be deployed in a number of other major cities.

On August 11, the US president ordered the deployment of the military to Washington “to deal with crime and homelessness“, and the case went to court. The mayor of the capital, Muriel Bowser, claims that the president's order is illegal. The head of state also transferred the city's police force under the control of the federal government and allowed, if necessary, the armed forces to be called in to provide security in Washington. In the week since Trump announced the deployment of National Guard units to Washington, about 300 people have been arrested in the capital.