Trump ramps up military deployment threats against Dem-controlled state: 'We're on it!'
President Donald Trump reignited his threats to deploy the U.S. military to Minnesota Sunday as protests continue to erupt in Minneapolis following the ICE killing of Renee Good earlier this month.
The president also took a swipe at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) – who’s urged protesters not to become violent and give Trump the pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that would grant him broad authority to deploy the U.S. military to American cities – by repeating a false claim that she’d married her own brother.
“ICE is removing some of the most violent criminals in the World from our Country, and bring them back home, where they belong. Why is Minnesota fighting this? Do they really want murderers and drug dealers to be ensconced in their community?” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
“The thugs that are protesting include many highly paid professional agitators and anarchists. Is this really what Minnesota wants? The crooked Governor and ‘Congresswoman’ Omar, who married her brother, don’t mind because it keeps the focus of attention off the 18 Billion Dollar, Plus, FRAUD, that has taken place in the State! Don’t worry, we’re on it!”
What appeared to be thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest Good’s killing, as well as the large presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, deployed to the city by the thousands by Trump in the wake of the alleged Somali daycare fraud scandal.
Trump has ramped up his threats to invoke the Insurrection Act in recent weeks, warning on Friday that it wasn’t a matter of “if,” but “when” he would be “forced to act” to quash civil unrest in the state.