NEW ORLEANS —

President Donald Trump is considering sending the National Guard to New Orleans amid his concerns about crime across the nation.

Trump said during a news conference Wednesday that his administration is considering sending troops to New Orleans in addition to Chicago. Advertisement

"So we're making a determination now, do we go to Chicago, or we? 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,” said Trump.

Trump did not say definitively that he would send troops to New Orleans, but he did say he might make his determination in the next few weeks.

"So we're going to be going to maybe Louisiana, and you hav

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