Amy Robach
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If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE 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 your attention to this matter, President DJT.
Correct.
And the last time it was invoked was actually in 1992 in L.A.
with the Rodney King riots.
And so the big point is most of these people,
orders, when you actually put in an insurrection act, it is with the cooperation of the governor.
The most governors, most mayors of whatever local state or municipality, they don't want violence on their streets.
They don't want civil unrest.
So they oftentimes ask
the president, or when this has been used before, it's been almost always in coordination with local officials, not against.
Very, very different scenarios.
The city was burning.
Yes.
And, you know, the president, President Trump, actually threatened to institute the Insurrection Act in George Floyd 2020.
He didn't end up doing it.
But that was far worse in terms of what was happening on the streets and the violence and the looting and the unrest.
That was completely much, much bigger than what we're seeing right now.
I mean, you were there.