President Trump called the Windy City "a mess," reports Fox News. There is a possibility he will set his sights on the city after the success he has had in reducing crime in Washington, D.C., partly due to his executive order that eliminates cashless bail in D.C.
Cities with cashless bail, Trumps says, are a “disaster,” pointedly referencing Chicago and New York. However, Chicago struggles with poverty and gang activity, and it has a crime rate higher than the national average.
Trump called far-left Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson "grossly incompetent," and he is considering sending in the National Guard to the crime-ridden city. Johnson responded by calling the Trump administration's efforts "uncoordinated, uncalled-for, and unsound."
P. Rae Easley is founder and chair of Chicago Red and an ambassador for the Project 21 Black Leadership Network.
"We are so happy in the city of Chicago, and we want to publicly thank the President for keeping his word and coming to help free us from the clutches of the international drug cartel,” Easley states. “What the president is going to do is bring the national guard here to dismantle the cartel.”
For example, Ovidio Guzman pleaded guilty in the U.S. Court District in Chicago to two counts each of drug conspiracy and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He is one of the heads of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico and the son of Joaquin Guzman Loera, otherwise known as El Chapo.
This is only part of the Department of Justice's nationwide initiative dedicated to keep communities safe from violent crime while eliminating cartels and criminal organizations through Operation Take Back America.
Easley also responded to her mayor calling Trump's actions tyranny.
"The tyranny comes into play when we look at people like my family who have been in mourning for decades because we had family members who were murdered without justice. Tyranny looks like they're spending our money to reward the people who pay the cartel to traffic there illegally into our country,” Easley says.
Furthermore, Easley informed that they are the ones suffering, but the mayor does not care.
“Because the mayor has already publicly aligned himself with foreigners in the third world, he's going to put their issues before others like he always does," states Easley.
Easley hopes the president will visit Chicago and see this for himself.
