US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, calling the Democratic-run midwestern city a “hellhole” ravaged by gun crime.

“We’re going in,” the Republican president told reporters, while hinting that he would also send soldiers to Baltimore, another Democratic-run city.

Trump denied charges he is strictly targeting cities run by his political opponents for his anti-crime campaign and his crackdown on undocumented migrants.

“I have an obligation,” he said, citing Chicago crime statistics. “This isn’t a political thing. I have an obligation when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets.”

Trump, who already sent National Guard troops into the streets of Democratic-run Washington last month, declin

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