By Jesse Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA— District Attorney Larry Krasner ramped up his criticism of President Donald Trump during an appearance on CNN Wednesday night in which he denounced plans to send National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago and other cities and offered Philadelphians advice for what to do should a deployment happen here.

He praised Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for vigorously — and so far successfully — pushing back on the president’s plan to send federal troops to that Democrat-controlled city and told news anchor Kaitlan Collins during an episode of “The Source” that Trump “always chickens out.” To reinforce the point, Philadelphia’s top prosecutor actually clucked.

In light of Trump’s troop deployments in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles thi

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