Yes ... get back to law and order. Trump more than once has mentioned to Inslee and the mayor of Seattle -- if they ask for help he will be there. Perhaps you need to take things up with your governor?
BTW the point he made about the jets is only pointing out that the taxpayers are paying for the jets at a much lesser price. I think that's notable since so many complain about the amount of $$ being spent.
3.9 billion is a drop in the bucket of Trump spending. Must be desperate to spend such time on it. And for added attraction just call the guy a dumb SOB.
Seattle is having major issue with the Chad, but we are not the only state that is dealing with rioting and BLM. If he has designated Antifa terrorist and that is what is running the show he has every authority to stop terrorism, and he should. Someone was shot there and the police couldn't even go in. And I would think that these officials aiding domestic terrorism can be brought on Federal charges also. If its BLM, well the entire government is just pandering to them. And Trump is just using Seattle as an example.
So Trump has talked about all the liberal Mayors, Governors..... At this point it is painfully obvious that this is about politics. He is using all of it and even stoking fires to keep it all going so he can talk, talk, talk about it.
Wait, though has he actually designated them terrorist? Seattle is not the only state. People have been beaten and shot and it continues. Maybe it was Trump talking about law and order but not doing it.
And even if he hadn't designated them terrorists he has the authority right now to stop it. And if the Clintons could take down David Koresh in Arizona Trump can stop Antifa and violent rioters wherever they are.
As currently worded, the Insurrection Act allows the president to call up the active military or federalize the National Guard under three circumstances:
At the request of a state. That's how it was most recently used, when Pete Wilson, then the governor of California, asked for federal help in 1992 to control violent protests after police officers were acquitted in the attack on Rodney King.
To enforce federal law. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan ordered the Defense Department to provide military units to help suppress violence at a federal prison in Atlanta. The disturbance was over before the troops arrived.
To protect civil rights. This provision authorizes the president to use the military to suppress "any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy" if local law enforcement is unable to provide sufficient protection. It doesn't require the request — or even the permission — of the state. President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the power to send elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and to federalize the entire state National Guard to enforce court-ordered school desegregation. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson invoked the same authority to enforce other desegregation orders in Mississippi and Alabama.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Congress changed the law, allowing the president to use the provision in cases of domestic violence when public order is disrupted by natural disaster, epidemic or terrorist attack without a request from a state's governor. But Congress revoked that specific authority a year later in the face of widespread opposition from the states.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/what-president-s-authority-send-federal-troops-n1222166But if he doesn't do anything he can talk up a storm at his rallies about liberal governments not doing anything. It would be like shooting himself in the foot to ruin this opportunity before election. Maybe we should wait and see how bad. How much damage can be done for the benefit of the campaign.
