I don't think that's his goal here.
His target market for this letter is independent or wobbly voters.
The Left hoped that Trump would be drawn in by the riots and looting, thinking that he would rush in to override the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago in an effort to fix the problem.
But instead, Trump brilliant is using the trouble nationwide and Leftist governors and mayors as foils against which to paint himself as a solution only offered.
In other words, Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot must choose. More devastation...or Trump.
Leftists thought the rioting and looting would be an election issue for themselves (and it would have it Trump had waded into the fray). But now Trump is turning it into an issue for him by telling the voters to choose the conservative way--his way--by comparing it to the problem caused by Leftists locally, at the state level, and nationally.
Good post. The target audience for that letter is every American who thinks Chicago is an irredeemable sh!t-hole ... which is at least 95% of the people in this country.
Good thing I scrolled down to your post, cuz that’s exactly what I was going to say...