Jun 09, 2025 7:14:54 pm
“This is exactly what Donald Trump wanted. He flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard. The order he signed doesn’t just apply to [California] “It will allow him to go into ANY STATE and do the same thing.” California Governor Gavin Newson.
THE INSURRECTION ACT of 1807 is the U.S. federal law that empowers the president of the United States to nationally deploy the U.S. military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal government of the U.S. The Insurrection Act provides a statutory exception to the Posse Comitatus Act (1878) that limits the president’s deploying the U.S. military to enforce either civil law or criminal law within the United States. – Wiki –
THE WHITE HOUSE – January 20, 2025
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby proclaim:
America’s sovereignty is under attack. Our southern border is overrun by cartels, criminal gangs, known terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers, unvetted military-age males from foreign adversaries, and illicit narcotics that harm Americans, including America. This invasion has caused widespread chaos and suffering in our country over the last 4 years.
b) Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
HITLER’S BIRTHDAY: There was serious concern that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act on April 20, 90 days after he first announced the proclamation on January 20. I still remember posting about it, as 4:20 has multiple meanings. Most people think of Marijuana, while others think about Hitler as it coincides with his birthday.
The day came and went without much fuss, yet it set what is happening now in motion. If the protests spread or escalate, Trump will assume absolute power. The courts won’t be able to stop him, I’m not sure what will. He has militarised the police and given them wide ranging powers. Plus he will protect and indemnify them.
Read the Executive Order of April 28, 2025. STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS.
DEVIL IN DISGUISE: The administration has not so far invoked the Insurrection Act, which in some circumstances permits the president to use the military to end an insurrection or rebellion of federal power in a state.
An objective analysis of the situation in Los Angeles suggests no such extreme disorder yet. But one top administration official seems to be choosing his language with precision. Domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller posted on X that there were two choices: “Deport the invaders, or surrender to insurrection.”
The echoing of the Insurrection Act by a powerful administration figure who claims an “invasion” of migrants justifies Trump’s use of emergency and all but unlimited executive power is probably not a coincidence. The president doubled down in a Sunday Truth Social post, claiming “violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking” federal agents. Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
KING OF CHAOS: There are concerns protests could spread to other major US cities. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says his home city could be next.
“I believe it’s going to get worse and it’s going to be New York,” Cuomo tells Bloomberg Radio. He adds that Trump’s decision to deploy to the National Guard against Newsom’s wishes was part of the president’s formula to create chaos.
Keep an eye on Chicago.
WTF UPDATE: President Donald Trump said he would support arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom and called the rioters in Los Angeles ‘insurrectionists.’
‘I would do it,’ the president said when asked about Newsom daring his administration to arrest him.
‘I like Gavin Newsom, he’s a nice guy but he’s grossly incompetent, everybody knows it,’ the president added.
Trump had even harsher words for the demonstrators.
‘The people that are causing problems are professional agitators and insurrectionists,’ he told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. ‘They’re bad people. They should be in jail.’
The president did not respond to a question as to whether or not he’d invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which allows for the use of federal troops on domestic soil to quell a rebellion. Emily Goodin for DMail.
UPDATE – MARINES DEPLOYED – Tuesday 10 June: US President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of the National Guard – and now Marines – to Los Angeles, in response to the protests.
Let’s take a look at the numbers:
4,000 National Guard troops have been mobilised since the beginning of the protests. Nearly 2,000 members are currently operating in the city, and on Monday Trump called up another 2,000 troops.
More than 700 Marines based in California have also been mobilised, in an order from Trump announced on Monday. They could arrive as early as Tuesday evening.
It seems the role of the Marines and the National Guard troops will be to protect federal property and personnel, such as the immigration agents involved in the raids on Friday that started all this.
This is an escalation.
The prospect of the Marines on the streets of Los Angeles, which is a highly unusual situation, has sent shivers through many communities across this sprawling city. BBC
WAKE UP – A BLATANT ABUSE OF POWER AND UNMISTAKABLE STEP TOWARDS AUTHORITARIANISM: In a post to his Truth Social account, Trump says LA would be “obliterated” without him. “The very incompetent ‘Governor,’ Gavin Newscum, and ‘Mayor,’ Karen Bass, should be saying, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR.'”
Trump told reporters he thought it would be “great” if Newsom was arrested. Newsom responded on social media, calling it an “unmistakable step toward authoritarianism”. Earlier, when Trump border czar Tom Homan threatened the same thing, Newsom didn’t mince his words: “Arrest me,” he said. “Let’s get it over, tough guy.”
‘If they spit, we will hit’. Trump accused Newsom of inspiring the riots and spitting in the faces of the National Guard.
“I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before,” he said in a Truth Social post.
DERANGED FANTASY OF A MADMAN: Newsom says Trump is acting like a dictator. In a post on X, Newsom says Trump’s activation of Marines in LA is a “deranged fantasy”. He continued by saying Trump is a “dictatorial president. This is un-American.” Newsom tells Trump to ‘grow up’.
Newsom wrote on social media earlier, urging people to “WAKE UP!”
“US Marines serve a valuable purpose for this country – defending democracy. They are not political pawns.”
“The Secretary of Defense is illegally deploying them onto American streets so Trump can have a talking point at his parade this weekend. It’s a blatant abuse of power. We will sue to stop this,” Newsom wrote.
Newsom responded on social media, writing “Trump’s border czar is threatening to arrest me for speaking out. Come and get me, tough guy.”
Asked on CNN on Monday night whether Newsom had done anything to warrant an arrest, Homan said “not at this time. Absolutely not.”
WEAKMAN SYNDROME: Donald Trump is talking and acting like an authoritarian as he escalates a constitutional clash with California over his migration crackdown. Much now depends on whether he’s simply talking tough or if he’s ready to take an already-tense nation across a fateful line in his zeal for strongman rule.
In a mind-boggling moment, on Monday, the president of the United States — the country seen as the world’s top steward of democracy for 80 years — endorsed the arrest of the Democratic governor of the nation’s most populous state.
Later, Trump deployed hundreds of active-duty Marines to Los Angeles and authorized the arrival of 2,000 more National Guard reservists after a weekend of unrest that saw clashes with police and burning cars in contained areas of the city. The protests were triggered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps seeking undocumented migrants in a city and state that are epicenters of Democratic power.
California and Los Angeles officials reject Trump’s claims that they have lost control. Trump’s decision to deploy troops despite the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom represented the latest example of his willingness to flex extraordinary executive power — often on questionable grounds — and marked a break with a first term when he was often talked out of his extreme impulses by establishment officials.
A GRAVE NEW CHAPTER: For all Trump’s multiple previous challenges to the rule of law and democracy, a grave new chapter may be opening.
“The president is forcibly overriding the authority of the governor and mayor and using the military as a political weapon. This unprecedented move threatens to turn a tense situation into a national crisis,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said on Monday evening. “Since our nation’s founding, the American people have been perfectly clear: we do not want the military conducting law enforcement on US soil,” Reed said in a statement.
California Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán, whose district encompasses Paramount, just south of Los Angeles, condemned Trump’s mobilizations of troops that she said were not justified by the situation. “This is where I think this is a sign of a dictator,” she told CNN.
Top Trump administration officials are throwing around words like “insurrection.” Not surprisingly, many observers have taken such rhetoric as a sign the White House is prepared to invoke the Insurrection Act — a law that would allow the president to activate troops to put down a rebellion in a state. There is no such revolt in California. Trump’s claims on Monday that his swift action stopped Los Angeles being obliterated are also not true.
CROSSING THE RUBICON: The trajectory of the crisis could now turn on whether Trump follows through on his dictator’s theatrics by crossing lines not approached by modern presidents — notably on the use of troops in a law enforcement capacity.
It may also rely on the restraint of protesters, who would play into Trump’s hands by taking part in more unrest that creates alarming television pictures that can fuel Trump’s dystopian rhetoric.
Creating or escalating a law-and-order crisis or threat to public security and then using it to justify the use of the military on domestic soil would mirror the methodology of tyrannical leaders throughout history.
And hopes of restraint are hardly supported by Trump’s second term so far.
The president has, for instance, invoked highly contentious national emergencies on immigration and trade to unlock rarely used executive powers with no pushback from the Republican Congress.
He’s used presidential authority against what he regards as centers of liberal authority and influence: at Ivy League universities, in the federal government and in the media.
The administration is spoiling for a fight as it lays down a marker in California for other Democratic states where leaders are loath to cooperate with Trump’s deportation purge. It obviously also perceives a political advantage in the president positioning himself as the guardian of public order in a way that allows Republicans to accuse Democrats of defending softer immigration enforcement.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: And Trump may be playing with fire in a city and state where anger over his wild four-month-old presidency is boiling. By inserting troops into such a volatile and tense environment, he’s opening the possibility that flashpoints could ignite and even that tragic circumstances could unfold.
But then again, maybe that’s the point, if the president is seeking a predicate to deploy active-duty troops on the streets of American cities.
Another troubling omen is that Newsom — who, like Trump, relishes public fights — has no incentive to cave to the man he would like to replace as president in 2029.
“This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego,” the governor governor said. “This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.”
With every day that passes in the California public order crisis, the political incentives seem to be driving toward more confrontation rather than a peaceful resolution. Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Tue June 10, 2025
UNNECESSARY ESCALATION: A former National Guard officer has criticised Trump for deploying the force to Los Angeles. The National Guards are “not needed” there, retired Lt Gen Russel Honoré tells the BBC’s Newsday. Honoré calls this “an escalation that’s being perpetrated by the White House to be able to deploy federal troops anytime, anywhere in America.”
Whatever you do, don’t forget that Donald Trump is on the Epstein client list. This is a manufactured crisis to distract WE THE PEOPLE from this hard hitting truth.
STOP STROKING A DANGEROUS PRESIDENT’S EGO. #FDT8647.