PHILADELPHIA — The White House lambasted Gov. Josh Shapiro this week for opposing President Donald Trump’s deployments of national troops to American cities after the Democratic governor said he’d be prepared if Philly joined Trump’s list.

“Another wannabe Presidential candidate is desperate to get into the news cycle by attacking the President’s highly successful operations to drive down violent crime — this won’t fool the American people and Pennsylvanians who elected President Trump on his law and order platform,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.

Shapiro told reporters at event in Philadelphia earlier this week that the method is “wrongheaded.”

Trump has not threatened to send the National Guard to Philadelphia in the way he has for other U.S. cities like

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