WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was unclear Wednesday about his plans to deploy National Guard troops to cities around the country, seeming to backtrack slightly on sending troops to Chicago while teasing New Orleans as a possible next location instead.

Despite a Tuesday morning ruling from a federal judge in California that called Trump’s use of military personnel for law enforcement in Los Angeles illegal, the president continued to explore further use of Guard units for what he said is crime prevention in other U.S. cities.

But in the face of pushback from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, and other state and city officials in Chicago, Trump said Wednesday he still wanted to send troops to the city, but may be more inclined to call up the Guard in a politically friendlier s

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