As a candidate, Donald J. Trump frequently mentioned the shootings that claim hundreds of lives here each year. As a new president, he threatened on Twitter to “send in the Feds!” if the local authorities did not stop the “carnage.” Five months later, Mr. Trump had another message about the city, as officials here announced a program that deploys more federal agents to address the city’s gun crime.
“Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help,” Mr. Trump wrote Friday morning on Twitter.
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