WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump suggested on Sept. 3 that he might federalize the Louisiana Army National Guard and send them to combat crime in New Orleans, the state’s largest city.
Trump made the remarks at the White House during a bilateral meeting with the president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki.
He suggested that New Orleans may be the next city for a crime crackdown, at the invitation of its governor.
“We’re making a determination now: Do we go to Chicago? Do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad,” Trump said in the Oval Office….