Trump ramps up tensions in Minnesota with new threat to use the Insurrection Act
After a night of violent confrontations between aggressive ICE agents and protesters in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Donald Trump menaced the state of Minnesota with a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act that could be a prelude to martial law.
Taking to Truth Social early Thursday morning, the president accused Minnesota lawmakers of being “corrupt” and warned them they need to quash protesters confronting armed DHS agents who have been violently grabbing people off the streets and in the their homes and hustling them away to detention centers.
Trump wrote, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for you attention to this matter! President DJT."
Trump’s threat comes as a federal judge is examining a request from the state to compel the president to make the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem stand down as tensions grow out of control.
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