Trump Announces Memphis Crime Crackdown, Vows to Put Troops In Chicago Next
After backing off his promise in recent days to send National Guard troops into Chicago, President Donald Trump has all but confirmed that’s where he’s sending the troops next, after he deals with the crime problem in Memphis.
In the Oval Office on Monday, Trump discussed the task force he’s planning to send into Memphis that will be a replica of what he’s accomplished in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. He said the team will be led by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
“This team will deploy the full powers of federal law enforcement agencies and enforcement generally to restore public safety and to get dangerous career criminals off of our streets. We will get them off,” Trump said. “In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate, and the third highest murder rate of any city in the nation. Other than that they are doing quite well, thank you,” the president quipped.
Trump then spelled out his strategy in a stream-of-consciousness rant:
We’re going one by one, but we want to go quickly. We don’t want to lose Chicago. We’re going to lose Chicago. We’re going to lose places like– you go to St. Louis. We’re gonna lose St. Louis. We’re not going to lose — we want to save these places. You’re gonna lose ’em. The way the man said, it was very high-quality man. I said, ‘Who would you do next?’ He said, ‘Sir, to Chicago, you don’t want to the Chicago.’ We won’t lose Chicago.
So we are going to have to go very big and we will go probably…we’re gonna hold it off, we would do some of the smaller ones, and the truth is our people are so good, you are doing a great job wherever you maybe. We are doing so good that we don’t, I don’t think we need to much practice, great. But we’ve got to go and save our big cities, our great cities. Chicago, it’s a great city. And we will make it great again very soon. I think we can do that despite the tremendous size. I think we can do a real job.
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