#insurrection-act

#insurrection-act

Trump said Monday in the Oval Office he hasn't needed to use the Insurrection Act - "so far." But, he added, "we have an Insurrection Act for a reason." He continued, "If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

U.S. President Donald Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Democratic-run cities if judges bar him from activating the National Guard, as he intends to do to provide security on the streets of Chicago and Portland, he said Monday, as tensions escalate over the deployment orders. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump compared the situation in Portland, the largest city in the state of Oregon, to an insurrection. Portland is on fire. Portland's been on fire for years, he asserted.

Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy more troops into Democrat-led cities. We have an insurrection act for a reason. If I had to enact it I would do that, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, adding, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I would do that.

As the commanding officer leading the Marine detachment explained, 'They do not do any arrest, they are strictly there to detain, to wait for law enforcement to come and handle those demonstrators.'