Chicago police have been left scratching their heads over Donald Trump's claim that he met with a "top" officer who told him the city's crime problem could be solved completely in a week.
"How?" Trump told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on Monday. "By being very much tougher than they are right now. They're right now not tough. I could tell you this very long and quite boring story. But when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police. I said, 'How do you stop this? How do you stop this? If you were put in charge — to a specific person — do you think you could stop it?' He said, 'Mr. Trump, I'd be able to stop it in one week.' And I believed him 100 percent," Trump said.
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