As peaceful protests continue throughout the nation, President Trump declared he’s a “president of law and order” while protestors were hit with tear gas and flash bangs in front of the White House.
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CNN reports President Trump stated from the Rose Garden that he is very committed to enforcing the law and sending out the military to end looting throughout the United States. He says “My first and highest duty as president is to defend our great country and the American people. I swore an oath to uphold the laws of our nation and that is exactly what I will do.” However, Trump also said he will deploy “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers” to end “violent protests.”
This order is called the Insurrection Act, a command initiated in 1807 where the President of the United States deploys military forces throughout the country in times of civil disobedience but this act hasn’t been enforced in 213 years. President Trump reinstated it so he could take photos at a historic church across the street from the White House.
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Earlier today, he held a phone meeting with governors claiming they were not “aggressive” with protestors and said the world is “laughing” at them.
‘What happened in the state of Minnesota, they were a laughing stock all over the world,’