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Smokin, point accepted.
This is where reputation is paramount.
As MachIavelli asserted "It's far better the Prince be feared rather than loved."
Were this the case w/Trump, I doubt this urban chaos would have exploded as it has.
I have little doubt the various legal minds behind the scenes have studied the issue, on BOTH sides.
A Prince has the power to pretty much deal with things as they please.
Not so the POTUS.
Short of them operating on Federal Land, or attacking Federal Monuments, there is little Trump can do if a few blocks go up.
No more than he can make blanket rules for the COVID-19 outbreak for small jurisdictions, can he send in the uninvited presence of the National Guard.
If you recall, even hurricane aid, staged outside Louisiana after Katrina, was stalled until the Governor requested help.
So it is with rioters. The regular military is subject to The Posse Comitatus Act, so that's out, too.
The Media may try to make it out that he did nothing, (sort of a Nero fiddling while Rome burned), but legally he could not do anything except on Federal Land and with Federal Buildings and Monuments, and IF HE HAD, you know that the MSM would have been all over him for violating Federal Law and the Constitution, and the new, improved, lemon scented Articles of Impeachment were probably open on someone's machine, waiting for a few blanks to be filled in.
The chaos was paid for, orchestrated, and agitated, and not nearly so spontaneous as it is presented, and not always a product of the people named in the graffiti. Only the useful idiots went in for some looting and burning, caught up in the mob fever.