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.

  • manxu@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    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.

    • green_red_black@slrpnk.net
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      1 hour ago

      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