'Come and get me': Dem gov dares Trump to make good on arrest threat
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spoke to an MSNBC reporter on the ground in Chicago for protests around the deployment of federal agents to raid the city.
President Donald Trump issued a Wednesday morning demand for Pritzker and the city's mayor to be put "in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers (sic)!”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has claimed that federal agents have been threatened with violence.
"Let's start with the idea that this is a convicted felon," Pritzker said, speaking to Trump's 34-count conviction in a New York court. "I mean, think about that. Who is threatening to jail me? I gotta say, this guy is unhinged. He's insecure, he's a wannabe dictator."
Pritzker then deployed his own tough talk, issuing a warning to Trump, "If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."
Neither Pritzker nor Mayor Brandon Johnson has been charged with any crimes.
Reporter Jacob Soboroff asked Pritzker whether Trump would follow up on the threat.
"Well, you know the expression, 'Trump Always Chickens Out,' TACO," the governor said of the popular acronym. "And I gotta say, he can't — we've done nothing wrong here. And very importantly, it's Donald Trump that is breaching the Constitution, breaking the law. We're taking him to court. And I believe we're going to win."