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Donald Trump: “They probably had 50 murders in Chicago over the last five…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada

Published | Video Starts at 08:52

As you know, if you look at Chicago, Chicago is a great city where there's a lot of crime. And if the governor can't do the job, we'll do the job. It's all very simple. They probably had 50 murders in Chicago over the last five, six, seven months. Many people were shot. And then the governor gets up and he says, well, we can handle it. They can't handle it. They don't know what they're doing. (08:52–09:00)

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Asserts that Chicago had approximately 50 murders in the past several months.

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