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.
In short someone informed him that in all likelihood the legal battle will end in a failure
Probably worse. It would end in a civil war.
That’s never stopped him before.
Again, it would fail again.
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 by the time the courts had decided that he would have arrested tens of thousands and whisked them away to ICE blacksites. Maybe one or two would get freed due to a media storm, but his administration would continue to hound and harass those few.
Its very obvious the courts don’t stop Trumps regime, and he does whatever fickle thing he wants at the time and talks shit the other 99%.