Stephen A. Smith says Dem leaders egos getting in way of accepting Trumps help on crime

ESPN commentator Stephen A.Smith argued Thursday that Democratic figures opposing President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in their cities are motivated by ego and fear of losing power.In an interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show,” Smith told the host that Democratic leaders, including Illinois Gov.

J.B.Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, refuse to work with Trump because it would damage their image to cooperate with the president.“When you take those things into account, there’s no denying that there’s egos that are involved, there’s people that’s worrying about their power being usurped, there’s also people worried about maintaining power because, if any way they come across as cooperative and willing to work with the president, that they’re going to alienate their party,” Smith told Cain.Trump has signaled his intention to send federal troops into Chicago to address the city’s violent crime.

In a Truth Social post shared Tuesday, he wrote, “At least 54 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, 8 people were killed… Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet.I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC.

Chicago will be safe again, & soon.MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”Washington, D.C., has seen a decrease in reported crime in recent weeks after Trump ordered the deployment of the U.S.

National Guard and expanded federal law enforcement presence in the city last month.Trump’s calls for similar federal intervention into Chicago have sparked pushback from Pritzker and Johnson.The governor has said there is no crime emergency in Chicago and that Trump is “attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families.”He also called Trump’s idea “unconstitutional” and “un-American.”Johnson wrote on X last month, “What the President is proposing would be the most...