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.
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
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!