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Trump considering a move to invoke Insurrection Act
NBC News ^

Posted on 06/01/2020 3:48:26 PM PDT by MNDude

President Donald Trump could announce as early as Monday night that he’s invoking a 213-year-old federal law that would allow him to deploy active-duty U.S. troops to respond to protests in cities across the country, according to four people familiar with the decision.

The military police forces would come from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and possibly Fort Belvoir in Virginia and could arrive in Washington within hours, these people said.

Trump’s decision to invoke the Insurrection Act, adopted in 1807, to deploy troops comes as his frustrations mount over the protests that have followed the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody last week in Minneapolis. The people familiar with his decision said he was angry Sunday night at the destruction protestors caused in Washington, particularly the vandalization of national monuments

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To: MNDude

https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/carmel-to-sue-minneapolis-to-recover-protection-expenses/

Carmel to sue Minneapolis to recover protection expenses


21 posted on 06/01/2020 3:56:36 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: MNDude
these people said and people familiar with

If you still believe these alphabet "news" sources, well, you should be out participating in the riots.
22 posted on 06/01/2020 3:56:36 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: MNDude

Martial Law is here folks like I have been telling you and rightfully so. He had to do this and this ANTIFA violence is the last straw!!


23 posted on 06/01/2020 3:56:39 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: MNDude

Invoke the ‘Custer’s last stand’ act and let’s get busy.


24 posted on 06/01/2020 3:56:41 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: MNDude

We will see what Trump actually does. He will likely deploy the military for DC which is a no-brainer.

Beyond that ... from a political standpoint it is probably best for each state to clean up their own mess.


25 posted on 06/01/2020 3:56:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Mariner

Regular troops in DC tonight and they will strictly enforce the curfew that starts in 2 minutes.


26 posted on 06/01/2020 3:57:11 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MNDude
Hard for me to decide if this would help or hurt the President in November.Of course order must be restored and if that's what required then it must be done.

There's one thing I'd bet my net worth on....this whole thing is being orchestrated directly from Rat Party Headquarters...just like "Occupy Wall Street".

27 posted on 06/01/2020 3:57:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: oldasrocks
BS this crap has been going on too long !!! 7pm curfew, Troops Deploying, Time to kick demonratcumbags A$$ !!!!

28 posted on 06/01/2020 3:57:18 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: MNDude

Trial balloon to scare the Dem governors into acting like they should and protect the people and their property.


29 posted on 06/01/2020 3:57:54 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: MNDude

He’s doing it THANK GOD..he’s bringing in the military to DC, told all the governors today if they dont do their damn jobs and protect their states he will bring the military to their states too


30 posted on 06/01/2020 3:58:14 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: oldasrocks

The Commie left wants us to be like China, so let’s show them what being like China is all about..cant have it both ways


31 posted on 06/01/2020 3:58:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Wuli

Even in the worst 1960s riots I don’t think the insurrection act was brought out.
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They were confined to an inner city.

This time it really IS insurrection.

The troops will be deployed strategically. They need to break the insurgents and the governors with unarmed NG are incapable of that.


32 posted on 06/01/2020 3:59:17 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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I take back what I said.

Invoke “Insurrection Act” and be the force standing behind the local forces.


33 posted on 06/01/2020 3:59:52 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: oldasrocks

In DC to protect the capitol. OK. Other places let’s wait a couple of hours. The DemS are really Desperate to pin something but people are wise to the Sorocratic Party


34 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:01 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: MNDude

The question is whether the antifa creeps and their allies in the BLM movement and the democrat party have achieved the critical mass necessary to sustain a insurrection. These people are funded, organized and they have numbers. They’re communicating on the dark web and they have a distributed leadership structure. The federal military is a hammer and anybody in their way is a nail. If DJT deploys them to the streets of any city it will not go well.

Dark Days coming folks... Stay Safe, Keep your heads low, Stay out of the way. It’s gonna get hot this summer.


35 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:10 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (God Bless you Rush Limbaugh... We are with you.)
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To: therut

Funny how “Rebellion” is just a small step from Resistance!

Isn’t this what Hillary and Democrats have been pleading for for 4 years? Resist!


36 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:16 PM PDT by Obadiah (Kill the deep state or lose the Republic.)
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To: oldasrocks
Wrong decision. Let the states take care of themselves. If Trump does anything next we will hear he is playing dictator and stopping free expression of people.

The Marxist Media will bad-mouth no matter what he does. He should call out the military for DC, which is a ward of the federal government. He should make the military available for any State that requests assistance.

37 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:46 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Airborne to DC. I think he’s doing it


38 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:47 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: oldasrocks

“Wrong decision.”

He just said a couple minutes ago that he expects the states’ governors to deploy their respective National Guards to stop the insurrection, but if they don’t he will deploy US military troops. He can deploy them anyway in D.C.


39 posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:58 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: MNDude

Um, I know that the left wants Trump to act. But....he needs to act and protect the country and the good people who are being destroyed by this lawlessness.


40 posted on 06/01/2020 4:02:35 PM PDT by dforest
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