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.
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.