Rod Blagojevich: ‘Most Chicagoans Have Common Sense,’ They Would Welcome the National Guard

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Jenkins: “President Trump making it his mission to make America safe again following his federal takeover in Washington, D.C. as he hints at sending the National Guard to Chicago next.”

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Trump: “We’re going to make our country very safe. We’re going to make our cities very, very safe. Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent, and we’ll straighten that one out probably next.”

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Jenkins: “Former governor of Illinois, blagojevich, joinings us now to react. Thank you for taking time. How would you feel if you were still governor when you see what President Trump’s doing in D.C., over 700 arrests, many guns taken off the street, violent criminals, some illegal aliens. Quite a cleanup. As a resident of D.C., obviously, you know, we like seeing that sort of thing. How would chicagoans feel about this?”

BLAGOJEVICH: “I think most chicagoans would welcome this. In fact, be excited, enthusiastic about it. The fact of the matter is Chicago’s a very dangerous city. Crime is high here, higher than in New York and in Los Angeles, and here’s a fact that’s really chilling. Our mayor tries to say homicides are down in Chicago erik but the fact is up to August the 16th, 254 people have been murdered. When you get up every morning in Chicago, you can say to yourself, someone’s going to be murdered today. And you can honestly say that in 8 out of so cases, 80% of those victims are going to be black. And what’s interesting about our governor, pritzker, white, liberal, limousine, rich people who live in upscale neighborhoods, they would never tolerate this if this were happening in their neighborhoods. They’d be shouting for the national gad and screaming – guard. It’s hi to hypocrisy, and there’s a touch of racism.”