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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The states under siege need to officially activate the militias as well. Our small towns in Arizona are being targeted. The militias are in these towns and are just awaiting authorization from the governor to deploy and work with local LE. Without it they still deploy but as civilians.
Yeah. Right. It’s the protests that are bothering him.
Anarchist looting and rioting and coordinated terror attacks and destruction may be involved too, you think?
I hope he can control this narrative with something more than snarky tweets.
No.
Haven’t you been paying attention?
They set fire to St. John’s church last night.
Don’t you watch the news?
“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.”
not any more, if they ever did.
they are about to be smashed by FBI
FBI knows who they all are.
They will run screaming in terror like the whiny little bitches they are.
Maybe not the best example to drag out of history, especially with US troops going into harm's way.
>> They may think they want it.
Exactly.
He is provoking them.
Showing them who owns the streets of DC.
They really, really screwed up when they vandalized the monuments and you can see POTUS is pissed over it.
I’m in Tucson and we have a 7pm curfew.
7pm curfew?
Where?
Link?
Riots, not protests. To NBC, screw your commie BS.
And the streets of DC will be quiet tonight.
Except for the black vans and armed men whisking away a few select individuals.
It was as live broadcast. Believe it.
I agree. It's only Blue areas that are getting destroyed with the Blue leaders all cheering it on. There's an old military adage: if the enemy is shelling its own positions do nothing.
Trump should just let it burn, wait for the suburban white Democrats and liberal-leaning Independents to cry uncle and beg him for help. Then Trump makes his move. But not until they've suffered enough first.
“you can see POTUS is pissed over it.”
I saw that too. He’s angry, and i hope he’s thinking before striking out in anger.
Agree
His primary duty is insure domestic tranquillity. If the governors and mayors can’t do it then it is up to him.
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