On Insurrection Act, Trump says he doesn’t think he ‘needs it right now’ in Minneapolis While speaking to reporters today, Trump said that he would use the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis if he “needed it”.
“I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” he added.
Earlier this week, Trump threatened to invoke the centuries old law, that allows the use of military forces to quell a domestic rebellion or invasion, in response to the protests against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
A reminder that George HW Bush was the last president to use the act during the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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Again, it would fail again.
That’s never stopped him before.
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That’s just because his end goal of having them mow down the protesters still isn’t something that can be done yet without everyone turning against it.
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And by the time the courts had decided that he would have arrested tens of thousands and whisked them away to ICE blacksites. Maybe one or two would get freed due to a media storm, but his administration would continue to hound and harass those few.
Its very obvious the courts don’t stop Trumps regime, and he does whatever fickle thing he wants at the time and talks shit the other 99%.
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Polls. I think it’s polls. He doesn’t care about losing legal battles, but he is afraid of what this action will do to him in the polls.
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My impression is that he is totally out of touch with reality. He thinks something will play well, and then is completely surprised that people hate him for it. Like, he got elected because he was going to be tough on immigration, how dare people complain because he’s tough on immigration? Look, he’s even got a woman —murdered— fatally shot while she was Standing In The Way, that’s gotta count for something, right? Please, clap!
Probably worse. It would end in a civil war.
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