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Exclusive: Being President Donald Trump Senator Bill Hagerty announced on Fox & Friends that Memphis will be the next focus of his national anti-crime push, telling Fox News that he has long struggled to resolve the city’s crisis.
R-Tenn. Hagerty said he has been following the public safety of Memphis for many years and has worked with Senator Marsha Blackburn of R-Tenn and some Democrats in West Tennessee where locals see red because the locals have been committing crimes while the criminals continue to be “walking ten feet away from Beale.”
Trump’s National Guard The announcement was also a rare bipartisan thing to gain access to blue cities within the red states – Hagerty also praised the mayor of democratic city Paul Young and the region’s Democratic Congressman.
“It was my profound personal prayer to see Memphis become one of the safest cities – it was a great city,” he said.
National Guard deploys to Memphis, Tennessee, next anti-crime push
Senator Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn. President Donald Trump, right. (Al Drago/Getty image)
Young and Cohen are united with him, Blackburn and Lee to support Operation Viper – A federal state law enforcement cooperation program mainly involves the FBI, which the Senators say has said about 500 wanted criminals have been arrested since July.
Several reports were about 200 figures as of August.
The venomous snake has been “risen” FBI Director Kash Patel He said the latest phase of the effort ended this week – which could explain the timing of Trump’s announcement.
Hagerty said the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) “strengthen” resources In Memphis Over the past few weeks, federal state-local cooperation has proven to successfully pursue the “hardest core” criminals.
Patel previously called Memphis the “Homic Capital of America.”
Fox News Digital contacted Young and Cohen and the FBI.
Yang told Fox Membership in Memphis He agreed with Lee’s comment that working with state and federal law enforcement agencies, effective outcomes in terms of crime are valid.
On “Fox and Friends,” Trump confirmed Hagerty’s comment that Young and Lee were partisan in this regard.
“What we prove is that working with local authorities, working with state and federal levels brings the capacity to all the resources necessary to really get into trouble in a criminal situation,” Hagerty said in this regard.
“President Trump is satisfied with the initial progress and is now willing to help us maximize resources to truly control the situation.”
Hagerty also suggested that while Cohen and Young appeared on board, there might be some “knee resistance to any federal help” that could challenge young people’s political dynamics.
Lee Harris is the Democratic mayor of Shelby County, where Memphis sits, or slams Trump – claiming he will use the “troop” [to] Occupy Tennessee community. ”
Harris called the news “disappointing, anti-democratic, a violation of American norms and possibly American law.”
“In the short term, the president’s invasion could cause chaos and fear in many of our communities, especially the most vulnerable. In the long run, the sign of Tennessee community being occupied by federal forces will damage our national reputation that has been passed down from generation to generation.”
Harris added that Trump will “relax” personal freedoms such as protests and his office will do everything possible to prevent “invasions” from guards.
Hagerty praised the young man, Democrat for running for mayor as a Crime Hawk, and praised Lee for planning to send 50 other Tennessee state police officers to help with federal intervention.
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“In the next phase, we are working on the timing of its timing – but there is no reason to wait,” he said of the potential timing of federal action.
Hagerty said state leaders in Blackburn and Nashville also agreed that the situation of criminal repression should not be excluded – adding that the National Guard dialogue should also mention the ATF and the DEA.
Trump is targeting it too Immigration law enforcement in Chicago In addition to the crimes that recently arrived in the city by Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, Hagerty was asked whether the federal intervention he heard was related to crime or immigration only.
“The full focus of all my conversations with the White House and the FBI of Justice has been on crime and there may be illegal immigration tied to this, I will not discount any participation and I don’t want to say there is no participation…because… [Trump] It’s obvious that he will make any resources we need [available]. ”
Trump advised him to choose Memphis in a television appearance, as the headwinds of Chicago’s “professional agitator” and “hostile” local environment contrasted sharply with illustrations of Hagerty’s bipartisan consensus in Memphis.
