Memphis obtains bipartite support for the Trump National Guard’s Crime Plan

EXCLUSIVE: When President Donald Trump announced on “Fox & Friends” that Memphis would be the next objective of his national anti-crime thrust, Senator Bill Hagerty told Fox News Digital that he had been working for a long time to deal with the city crisis.

Hagerty, R-Tenn., Said that he had been concerned about the public security of the Memphians for years and has worked with Governor Bill Lee, Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Thus by certain Democrats in the west of Tennessee, where the inhabitants saw crime continues to skyrocket for those who “walk at ten feet from Beale”.

Trump National guard The announcement is also something that has collected rare bipartite support in the blue city of the red state – while Hagerty also praised the mayor of the Democratic City Paul Young and the member of the Democratic Congress of the Region.

“It is a deep personal prayer to see Memphis become one of the safest cities-it is a big city,” he said, adding that young people and representative Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Have largely supported wider efforts to suppress crime.

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Senator Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., On the left; President Donald Trump, right. (Al Drago / Getty Images)

Young and Cohen united with him, Blackburn and Lee to support the Viper operation – a federal cooperative project for the application of the law mainly involving the FBI which, according to the senator, has led to around 500 arrests of suspects sought since July.

Several reports put the figure in August around 200.

Viper had been “increased” by the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, during the summer, he said, and that the last phase of the effort ended this week-which could explain the moment of Trump’s announcement.

Hagerty said that the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “strengthened” resources in Memphis in recent weeks and have already demonstrated the capacity of federal cooperation of the Lay Staff to successfully pursue criminals “the harshest”.

Patel had previously called Memphis “the capital of homicides in America”.

Fox News Digital contacted Young and Cohen as well as the FBI to comment.

Young Memphis Fox affiliate He agrees with Lee’s comments that effective results on the crime front go through work with federal and federal police.

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On “Fox & Friends”, Trump confirmed Hagerty’s comment that Young and Lee are united through the festive lines on this front.

“What we have demonstrated is an enormous ability to work in collaboration with the local authorities, the state and the federal level to bring all the resources necessary to bear to make a real breach in the situation of the crime,” said Hagerty in this regard.

“President Trump has been satisfied with initial progress and is now willing to help us maximize resources to really control the situation.”

Hagerty also suggested that there could be “instinctive knees resistance to any federal aid” which could be a difficult political dynamic for young people.

Lee Harris, the Democratic mayor of the county of Shelby in which Memphis is seated, alternately castigated Trump – saying that he will use “the troops (to) occupy the communities of Tennessee”.

Harris called the news “disappointing, anti-democratic, and violates American standards and perhaps American laws”.

“In the short term, the President’s incursion will probably cause confusion and fear in many of our communities, especially the most vulnerable. In the long term, the brand of Tennessee communities occupied by federal forces will harm our state’s reputation during generations.”

Harris added that Trump “would cool” personal freedoms like that of protest and that his office will do everything he can to prevent the guard’s “foray”.

Hagerty congratulated the young people, a democrat, for having run for the mayor as a crime falcon, and also congratulated Lee for having planned to send 50 soldiers of state of the Tennessee to help the federal intervention.

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“This next phase, we are working at the moment-but there is no reason to wait,” he said about the potential calendar of federal action.

In a statement to Fox News Digital Friday later, Cohen suggested that his point of view was different from the way he was described, if Memphis has a “crime problem”, he wants to avoid “The Trump Show 2.0”.

“I had hoped that the National Guard would not be deployed here … Memphis is not” a troubled city “, as President Trump said … We have problems that can be” endemic “, but they are the result of centuries of racial discrimination, including slavery that separated families without possibilities of education.”

“Even after their release, they had to face the discrimination of Jim Crow in the south. These are the historical facts.”

Hagerty said that Blackburn, as well as the heads of state of Nashville, also agree that no option should be out of the table for crime repression – adding that ATF and DEA should also be mentioned in the conversation of the National Guard.

While Trump has also targeted Chicago on the application of immigration as well as on crime – with the head of the Gregory Bovino border patrol recently arriving in the city – Hagety was invited to know if the federal intervention he had heard of only concerns crime or also immigration.

“The objective of all my conversations with the White House and the DOJ, the FBI, with the governor, has always been on the crime, and the idea that there could be illegal immigrants linked in that, I will not reduce the fact that there could be some involvement – and I do not mean that the resources we need (available).”

In his appearance on television, Trump suggested that he had chosen Memphis due to winds -contrary to Chicago with “professional agitators” and a local “hostile” local environment, which contrasts with the illustration of Hagety of a largely bipartite consensus in Memphis.