Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in Minnesota

5 months ago by rss to c/pravda_news

The Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy the US military domestically to suppress civil unrest.

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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DarrinBrunner 27 points 5 months ago

Of course he has, this has been part of the plan from the start. Agitate the masses till they riot, and then declare martial law. Here's the next step in the plan. His immediate personal goal is to cancel the mid-term elections, the GOP's goal is to end the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

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LeninWeave 5 points 5 months ago

Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

Americans such as yourself seem unable or unwilling to face the fact that their country is fundamentally built to enforce the will of a small, powerful class (the bourgeois) over the masses. Their empire rules the whole world and yet it always has to be someone else's fault when the bad things they do to everyone else come home.

Jinping is his given name, by the way. You meant to say Xi.

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RedWizard 7 points 5 months ago

Jinping is his given name, by the way. You meant to say Xi.

Imagine if we called the president, President Donald.

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LeninWeave 5 points 5 months ago

The only Donald I support for president is Duck. soviet-huff

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RedWizard 4 points 5 months ago

THIS Donald Duck?

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