Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly warned President Donald Trump about his threats to send the National Guard to several additional U.S. cities, including Chicago, saying on her show that “he does not have the constitutional permission to do it” and that she’d side with Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker over Trump if the president sends federal troops to Pritzker’s state.
In a recent episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the former Fox News host said, “We’re watching this happen with Pritzker in Illinois, where Trump is saber-rattling about sending troops next, saying, ‘It’s going to happen.’ That’ll be interesting. I mean, it’s going to be a legal battle because he’s very limited in what he can do outside of Washington, D.C. He got away with sending them to LA, sort of. He just got his hand slapped by a judge.”
“You can’t just send them in to random cities in support of just fighting crime,” Kelly continued. “Like that you really can’t do without the invitation of a governor. So we’re heading for an uncomfortable showdown with Governor Pritzker.”
“We can’t have Trump going in without the invitation of this governor. I’m sorry, but we can't have it. He does not have the constitutional permission to do it,” Kelly, an attorney, said.
“It very clearly is not constitutionally permissible. He cannot do it,” she added. “I really hope he doesn’t do it because I don’t want a world in which I’m siding with Governor Pritzker over President Trump. But I will if he does it because he can’t do it legally.”
