"By Thursday morning, as protests continued to escalate in reaction to the increasingly violent presence of armed federal immigration agents in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Trump issued an ultimatum: either the professional agitators and insurrectionists stand down from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., or he would finally follow through and invoke the Insurrection Act to send in the U.S. military."
"Deploying active-duty soldiers to put down a domestic disturbance has been one of Trump's long-running preoccupations: he's got this big, bad militarywhy can't he use it to show blue America who's boss? In the summer of 2020, as largely nonviolent Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country, it was only the combined objections of Trump's Attorney General, Defense Secretary, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs that stopped him from doing so."
Donald Trump threatened Iran, Denmark, and especially Minnesota protesters, with the gravest threat aimed at Minnesota. He declared “THE DAY OF RETRIBUTION & RECKONING IS COMING” and issued an ultimatum that agitators must stand down or he will invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty U.S. military. Deploying soldiers against domestic disturbances has been a recurrent preoccupation, and a 2020 deployment was prevented by objections from the Attorney General, Defense Secretary, and Joint Chiefs chair. He has repeatedly mobilized the National Guard over local objections and urged generals to treat U.S. cities as training grounds.
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