Yesterday President Trump called for the arrest of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Tahman Bradley reports at WGN:
CHICAGO — U.S. Northern Command Wednesday said approximately 200 soldiers from the Texas National Guard and roughly 300 from the Illinois Guard have mobilized for a 60-day mission. Their orders are to protect ICE and other government personnel and federal property.
Also, Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump called for Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed.
“Chicago mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ice officers! Governor Pritzker also!” he posted on Truth Social
Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson were quick to strike back:
Appearing at a government employees union rally at Chicago’s Federal Plaza, Pritzker hit back.
“He’s a coward. He says a lot of things to the camera, he likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me. Come and get me,” he said.
and
Johnson, in apparent reference to the Central Park 5, the ultimately exonerated men wrongfully convicted in 1989 of an assault on a New York jogger, said, “This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested. I’m not going anywhere.”
President Trump has a big mouth. That is not a state secret. Don’t we have a right to expect our elected officials to avoid schoolyard taunts like this? Why do Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson feel they must descend to his level?
Trump is drawing the parasites out into the light that Illinois voters can see them for what they are,
Selfishly motivated opportunists.
When Trump threatens to arrest them they sort of have to respond. I agree they should be more measured but given Trump’s popularity because he is a crude bigmouth they seem to think that’s what the public wants. TBH, I think that may be true. I think that movie Idiocracy is become less a comedy and more of a documentary.
Steve
I think they should have responded—like adults not like schoolboys.
Pritzker self-presents as someone who might have once worked as dockyard hand while bragging about his personal (inherited) wealth in comparison to Trump. I think there is a lot of unfavorable comparisons to be made between the two, but Trump is constantly tweeting and subsuming all rational discussion. If Pritzker really thought the Trump administration was like the rise of the NAZI party in Germany, would he be talking like this?
Dave- You and I are not like the majority of Americans. I think the revealed preference is that people want our officials to talk like these guys.
PD- Yup, they are both fighters. Willing to hire lawyers to go after those who offend them. True tough guys.
Steve