“Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt on Monday begged President Donald Trump to send troops into New York despite recent stats showing Gotham’s crime rate at a remarkable low. (Watch the video below.)
Ainsley and co-hosts were discussing Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., and threats to deploy National Guard units in other blue cities such as Baltimore, Chicago and New York.
The show played a clip of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson objecting to the possibility. “We are not going to surrender our humanity to this tyrant,” Johnson said in the video. He has also called a military deployment “costly, illegal, and unconstitutional.”
“I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to clean up these cities,” Earhardt said. “I mean, D.C. needed to be cleaned up. It looks like it has been.”
She then pivoted to the city where she works, New York, which could be seen outside the Fox News studio window.
“Fine, you don’t want ’em? Send ’em to New York, please,” she said of the Guard. “Please, Donald Trump, send ’em here. Clean up these streets. I welcome it.”
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One observer, leaning into assertions that Trump is using the troop deployments as a distraction from another issue, thought Earhardt should be making a different plea:
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