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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James Liddell

Conservative podcaster calls for Chicago mayor to be ‘executed’ for not kowtowing to Trump’s takeover

A conservative podcaster has suggested that Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson should face the ‘death penalty’, accusing him of “treason against the United States” for pushing back against Donald Trump’s threats of sending in troops to the city.

After deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles in June and Washington, D.C., last month, the president has repeatedly threatened to mobilize the military in what he described this week as “the worst and most dangerous city in the world”: Chicago.

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