Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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Trump threatens to jail Johnson and Pritzker

A law enforcement officer confronts a demonstrator in Chicago. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

Donald Trump called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats. His remarks came as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest city.

Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been accused of criminal wrongdoing. Both are prominent opponents of the president's immigration crackdown and deployment of National Guard troops in Democratic-leaning cities. Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers have gathered at an Army facility outside Chicago.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found most Americans oppose the deployment of troops without an external threat.

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