Pritzker to Trump: ‘Come and get me’

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

Later Wednesday, the president doubled down.

“It’s not lawful what they’re doing, they have to be very careful,” he said.

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.

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.”

Trump’s accusation that local officials are refusing to protect ice may refer to an internal Chicago Police Dept dispatch from the chief of patrol which allegedly said “no units would respond” to a call to aid border patrol agents. Police Superintendent Larry Snelling denied that officers were told to stand down.