President Donald Trump, left, called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, center, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to be jailed for "failing to protect" ICE officers on Wednesday. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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The White House then skipped to an audio clip of Pastor Corey Brooks speaking on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" in August, where he noted violent crime wasn’t improving in Chicago and urged the president to send in the National Guard.
"We need to invite President Trump in," Brooks said in the clip. "We invite the National Guard in. … We've had 254 deaths in 233 days, and for anyone in our community to say people are safe, that is an outright lie."
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The focus shifted back to Trump, as he added Chicago "needs help."
"They need help, badly," the president said. "Chicago desperately needs help. We don't want to lose Chicago. We're going to lose Chicago. We want to save these folks. We're going to lose them. We're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore. We're stopping it. One by one."
Law enforcement detains a protester near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, Ill., on Oct. 3. (AP/Erin Hooley)
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Pritzker on Tuesday accused Trump of being a "man who’s suffering dementia," alleging the president "doesn't read," according to The Chicago Tribune.
"This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head," Pritzker said. "He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities."
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"And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing," he added.
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