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Chicago Flip Red Founder Zoe Leigh blew up city and state leaders on Wednesday President TrumpAs violence continues to capture the city of Big Wind, federal help is offered.
She told “Yesterday, you witnessed five useless.”Fox and friends“referring to Democratic Governor JB Pritzker, Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson and other local officials who rebel against Trump at a press conference Tuesday.
Leigh, originally from Albany, New York, described herself as a “suburban kid” until she moved to Chicago in her 20s, and she never dealt with gun violence.
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Chicago Flip Red Founder Zoe Leigh rejected President Donald Trump’s federal help during Wednesday’s “Fox and Friends.” (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images (left); Fox & Friends (right))
She added: “My mother was originally from Chicago and saw the elderly being killed, our children being killed, our mother being killed, our young being killed, we were not getting any help at all… It’s starting to normalize, it’s not normal.”
Chicago Police Department data shows that eight people were killed. More than 50 Injured in a shooting over Labor Day weekend.
Pritzker insisted on refusing to ask the National Guard to be sent to Chicago at a press conference Tuesday, hours after Trump insisted that “we’re going in.”
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Chicago police patrolled downtown in Chicago on August 26, 2025. President Donald Trump is still in federal intervention to mitigate crime in cities despite opposition from Democratic officials. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“I know US President I fell in love with TV, asked me to call him and asked him about the troops. I found it very strange because Chicago didn’t want to be in the army on our streets. I refuse to take part in a reality show,” he said.
Meanwhile, Johnson accused Trump of using gun violence victims to expand his power and insisted that Chicago will continue to have “violence problems” as long as the red state has “gun problems.”
The mayor signed an executive order on Saturday prohibiting local police from working with their federal counterparts while vowing to protect the Constitution, cities and their people.
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The order confirms that Chicago police will continue to enforce state and local laws but will not work with the National Guard or federal agents on patrol, arrest, immigration enforcement or other law enforcement actions.
Li disagrees[s]”By what she calls Chicago’s long-standing “progressive democratic gang” and refusing to accept federal help, accusing its members of “playing politics.”
Anders Hagstrom and Emma Bussey of Fox News contributed to the report.
