Trump threatening to arrest the Democratic mayor and governor of the state and city he's invaded with military forces.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 1h
FLAG: Trump just said online that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "should be in jail."

“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“I will not back down,” Pritzker wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

Johnson struck back with an apparent reference to Trump’s efforts to win a death penalty verdict against the now-exonerated “Central Park Five,” a group of men convicted as teens of a gruesome New York City sexual assault who were exonerated after spending years in prison and have sued Trump for defamation.

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested,” Johnson said. “I’m not going anywhere.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/president-donald-trump-mayor-brandon-johnson-gov-jb-pritzker-jailed/


Mayor Johnson signed an executive order on Monday in an effort to block immigration agents from using city property during their operations in Chicago.

"We will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority," Johnson said in a press release marking the so-called "ICE Free Zone" executive order.

Pritzker has emerged as a leading critic of the Trump administration as his state faces the president's ire. Trump has compared Chicago to a "war zone," and Pritzker said Sunday in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" that "they’re just making this up."

"Then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone," Pritzker said on Sunday, appearing to refer to federal agents. "And they, you know, get people on the ground are, frankly, incited to want to do something about it, appropriately."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-gov-jb-pritzker-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-jail-rcna236339

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1. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker 1h
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Link to tweet

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