Barack Obama
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When you have what looks like a deliberate end run around not just a concept, but a law that's been around for a long time, posse comitatus, that says, you know, you don't use our military on domestic soil unless there is an extraordinary emergency of some sort that
When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or- Or a terrorist act.
Or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy.
And that was understood by Democrats and Republicans.
I always try to, I mean, it's almost too easy of a thought experiment.
If I had sent in the National Guard into Texas and just said, you know what?
A lot of problems in Dallas.
A lot of crime there.
And I don't care what Governor Abbott says.
I'm going to kind of take over law enforcement because I think things are out of control.
It is mind-boggling to me how Fox News would have responded.
I mean, there were times where, I remember, there was a moment, I don't remember what year this was, where the military just had regular exercises in Texas, out of one of the bases, Fort Hood.
Ted Cruz and a number of other folks were out there lending credence to the fact that I was preparing for the whole black helicopter, one world government.
I was about to take over Texas.
This is like a sitting US senator.
Retweeting about what's going on with these exercises.