President Donald Trump dropped an inconvenient reality check on Democrat leaders, warning he could tap “unquestioned power” to counter resistance to his efforts to reduce crime.
Speaking with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” the president addressed the battle to deploy National Guard troops to combat crime in some Democrat cities and the left’s opposition to enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. Trump noted that he could invoke the Insurrection Act but preferred not to go to that extreme.
“We’re gonna go to San Francisco,” Trump responded when asked about deploying federal troops to the California city. “San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then, 15 years ago, it went wrong. It went woke.”
BREAKING: President Trump just reminded Antifa, blue state governors and mayors of one VERY important fact
“Don’t forget…I CAN use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents, almost, have used that. And that’s UNQUESTIONED POWER.”
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“Don’t forget, I can use the Insurrection Act. Fifty percent of the presidents almost have used that. And that’s unquestioned power,” Trump told Bartiromo.
“I choose not to, I’d rather do this. But I’m met constantly by fake politicians — politicians who think it’s not like part of the radical-left movement to have safety. These cities have to be safe,” he insisted.
“Our cities that are Democrat-run — exclusively, just about — are unsafe cities. They’re a disaster,” Trump added.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has openly resisted Trump’s efforts to address rampant crime in parts of Chicago, has previously claimed the president has no legal right to invoke the Insurrection Act.
“There has to be an insurrection in order for him to be allowed to invoke it. Again, he can say anything he wants. But if the Constitution means anything — and I guess we are all questioning that right now, but the courts will make the determination — if the Constitution means anything, the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked to send them in because they want to fight crime,” Pritzker told ABC News’ “This Week.”
The Insurrection Act is a 19th-century law that “allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US,” the BBC noted.
“US presidents can invoke the law if they determine that ‘unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion’ against the government make it ‘impracticable to enforce’ US law ‘by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,'” the outlet continues. “Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants. This includes the National Guard – a branch of the US armed forces traditionally reserved for domestic emergencies and disasters.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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