Donald Trump calls for Democrat politicians to be jailed for opposing troop deployment

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, when asked what crimes the President believed the two Democrats had committed, failed to identify any

Governor JB Pritzker has condemned Donald Trump (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

Donald Trump has said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.

The Republican president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for opponents to be prosecuted or locked up — a break from long-time norms as the Justice Department traditionally has tried to maintain its independence from the White House.