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.
In short someone informed him that in all likelihood the legal battle will end in a failure
Again, it would fail again.
That’s never stopped him before.
And yet backed out of Cali when the courts have told him so.
The NG in DC ultimately just did trash collection.
And in Chicago he had the NG stay in barracks before sending them home due to the courts ruling against him.
For a guy that says he will use military force he seems to hold back and let the protest movements win out in the end
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.
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%.
Does whatever he wants and doesn’t get the results he wants.
You are correct in thousands already detained and deported. But Trump’s whole Mass Deportation is to remove all non-citizens (and citizens that are not subservient while we are at it.) but at best could only get what 10% of the undocumented population?
TBC 10% is still a lot (even just one is bad.) but it’s not the grand vision Trump boasts doing.
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.
And yet still doing stuff that makes him look bad in the polls anyways. Unless I missed he finally had a moment out of the red while still playing Supreme Leader
Probably worse. It would end in a civil war.
Honestly I somehow don’t think Trump would mind that