Biding his time exactly for what? Till more police departments are disbanded?? So far that's exactly what's happening as they have no opposition. Perhaps when larger groups start to make demands throughout the country, will the 'timing' be right then?
Unfortunately this isn't the first time Trump has backpedaled on issues and waited till it was too late and eventually what he said and failed to do left him completely ineffective.
Not one of these "Autonomous Zones" will fail to become a jackbooted horror. Just watch.
Nut until they do, and enough of them that it cannot be ignored, even by the Media, then any intervention will be used to decry the actions of the Federal Government as the sort of 'fascism' the Communists are protesting.
This has become a game of optics, of strategy, and the Alinskyite principle of using the enemy's rules against them is in play here.
So, also, is the principle of provoking an overreaction that will make the enemy even more evil than you are, making your side the lesser evil, and we know how that plays out among the masses.
Of course protection rackets in the Zone are being denied. Anybody there want to be the first to step forward and say something (and have a tragic accident)? Nope. Didn't think so.
Until the internal resistance starts smuggling out video of what is going on, of oppression by those who claim to be the oppressed, of arbitrary and capricious street punishment dealt out on the spot, of the "law" of the law is what I say it is, nothing really can be done without giving the very criminals doing this the fodder to raise an army. Casus Belli: Waaah!! they won't let us have our way!
Let them steep in their own juices for a while, track any money, in or out, and keep supplies short.
Oh, and declare Antifa a terrorist organization.
It's still Spring, have the roundup in the Fall.