President Donald Trump said he could announce as early as Wednesday a National Guard deployment to a state and city that wants it, seemingly taking off the table for now his weeks-long threat to use military assets in Chicago to deter crime over the objections of Democratic leaders.

“We’re going to be announcing another city that we’re going to very shortly, working it out with the governor of a certain state who would love us to be there, and the mayor of a certain city in the same state that would love us to be there,” Trump told reporters Tuesday night in touting the results of his federalization of law enforcement and National Guard assets in Washington, D.C. , by dining out at a restaurant.

“We’ll announce it probably tomorrow (Wednesday), and it’s going to be something we will do

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