MAGA Governor Jeff Landry’s pleas for the Trump administration to send federal troops to his state of Louisiana have been slammed by critics.

The Louisiana governor started begging for a National Guard deployment to the state in early September after President Trump weighed sending troops to New Orleans.

Landry has recently upped the pressure by sending a formal request to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday.

Jeff Asher, a crime trends analyst who co-founded AH Datalytics, said, “New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970.”

“This is a wholly unnecessary stunt,” he wrote in a Monday post on Bluesky.

Data from the Real-Time Crime Index supports this, showing nearly a 23 percent decrease in year-to-date murders compared to last year.

Landry said in an interview w

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