Rumours that #Trump may make an announcement in the Rose Garden later today invoking the #InsurrectionAct.
This 213-year-old law would allow him to deploy active-duty US troops to respond to #BLACK_LIVES_MATTER protests.
If he does, it will not end well. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Military trucks with soldiers have moved into place around the White House.
#Trump is expected to speak soon.
This isn’t the time to escalate an already combustible situation
by deploying soldiers onto streets already bristling with anger.
https://t.co/UHuln0Plu7
#Trump says states should “deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. If any city or state refuses...I will deploy the US military & quickly solve the problem for them.”
This is a dark moment for America & for Americans.
#DearAmerica,
The world’s been watching your President’s erratic behaviour for 4 years with mounting horror & frankly he’s scaring the sh*t out of us.
It used to be funny when he misread the auto cue & pretended he hadn’t.
But tonight nobody’s laughing.
“I am mobilizing all available federal resources, civilian & military, to stop the rioting...& to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, incldg your 2nd Amendment rights."
Civilian & military?
2nd Amendment?
Is he urging MAGA to come out shooting?
“You wanna know what someone’s going to do? Look what they’ve been doing their whole lives.”
@BarackObama warned us.
But even Obama couldn’t have imagined @realDonaldTrump would be this bad.
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