President Trump on Sunday told reporters on Air Force One that he plans to send the National Guard back into Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland “when the crime starts” and floated using the Insurrection Act.
“We’ll go back in, and we may, if we, you know, we’re allowed to, the most powerful thing we have, we haven’t used, the Insurrection Act,” Trump said while discussing his efforts to lower crime in America’s lawless Democrat cities.
President Trump has teased invoking the Insurrection Act and put the military on the streets numerous times to stop violent anti-ICE rioters and deport illegal aliens in sanctuary cities.
Trump slammed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for opposing the National Guard deployment in Illinois and noted that he had saved Los Angeles and nearly eliminated crime in Portland before withdrawing the troops following the Supreme Court’s decision to decline Trump’s bid to immediately reverse a lower court ruling.
“We can go back. We’re allowed to go back in, but we’ll go back in when the crime starts. Look, the crime will soon start because they now know that we’re out, and at the appropriate time, we’ll go back in,” Trump said before threatening the Insurrection Act.
“I’ve always considered it, but we haven’t needed it anywhere. 48% of the presidents of this country have used it. Bush used it, I think, 22 times or something. You know that, right?”
AUDIO:
Trump: We’re not going to pay Illinois with that big slob of a governor that they have that doesn’t want— you know, we brought down crime by 25%. He didn’t do anything. He’s not doing anything, but they want us to leave. He had a day where they had 17 murders, not too long ago, 17 murders and 77 people shot, but 17 died. And then he talks about, “oh, we can handle it.” He can’t handle it!
But we pulled back, and we’ll go in at the appropriate time. But we’re the ones who brought the crime down. We brought it down 20% they didn’t bring it down. Pritzker didn’t bring it down. Same thing with Gavin Newsom; if we didn’t go in to Los Angeles seven months ago, when they had the riots, even the police commission, the head of police said, if we didn’t have the federal government go in, we would have lost total control of the city of Los Angeles, and they would have had to cancel The Olympics.
Reporter: The National Guard, you pulled out the National Guard out of Portland and Los Angeles.
Trump: We did. You know what? You know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime. You know that? But we pulled it out. We had a Supreme Court decision. We can go back. We’re allowed to go back in, but we’ll go back in when the crime starts. Look, the crime will soon start because they now know that we’re out, and at the appropriate time, we’ll go back in, and we may, if we you know, we’re allowed to, the most powerful thing we have, we haven’t used, the Insurrection Act.
Reporter: You’re considering using the Insurrection Act? Where?
Trump: We always did. I’ve always considered it, but we haven’t needed it anywhere. 48% of the presidents of this country have used it. Bush used it, I think, 22 times or something. You know that, right? I mean Bush the elder.
Trump announced earlier this week that he was withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland.
Last month, the Supreme Court declined to freeze a lower court ruling and rejected Trump’s bid to keep Texas National Guard Troops stationed in Chicago to protect ICE agents from leftwing terrorists.
Trump left a future deployment to these cities open, writing on Truth, “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!”
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