Trump Says Kirk Told Him To Save Chicago In Last Conversation

GLENDALE, AZ — During a memorial service for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk Sunday, President Donald Trump once again said he will soon be sending the National Guard and military into Chicago to remedy crime issues in the city.

"One of the last things he [Kirk] said to me was, 'please, sir, save Chicago.' We're going to do that. We're going to save Chicago from horrible crime," Trump said during the memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

Kirk, 31, a native of Arlington Heights and Wheeling High School graduate, was shot and killed Sept. 10 during a speaking tour stop at Utah Valley University.

Two days after the shooting during an appearance on "Fox and Friends," Trump said he was nixing plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, instead opting to send military troops to Memphis, Tennessee. Since those comments were made, though, the president has said on several occasions that he still intends to eventually do so in Chicago.

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"We're going to very much have Charlie in mind when we go into Chicago, and we'll get that one straightened out," Trump said Sunday. "You have an incompetent governor who thinks it's OK when 11 people get murdered over the weekend. He thinks you don't have any crime when 11 people get murdered and 28 people get shot. They don't have it under control, but we'll have it under control very quickly."

Trump has previously said he would deploy U.S. troops to Chicago, as he did this past summer in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Trump said Kirk was "proud" of what the Trump administration has done in Washington, D.C. and was able to see it first-hand.

"The President's threats are beneath the honor of our nation, but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said recently. "We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump."

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