The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this article but at a briefing with reporters Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany left open the possibility that the president could invoke the act.
Governors can ask that the federal government send active duty troops to help in cases of civil unrest like the widespread protests plaguing U.S. cities over the last several days. But, so far, no governor has requested active duty troops to assist and instead they have relied on local law enforcement and National Guard soldiers and airmen on state active duty.
But the president could invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty troops without a request from a governor. Those troops would be allowed to conduct law enforcement missions. To invoke the act, Trump would first have to issue a proclamation to “immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time,” according to the law.
POTUS with that response some may say is cause for insurrection...WhiteHouse realDonaldTrump
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Very difficult
No president should ever turn their own military on their populace. That is a dictatorship not a democracy.
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I 1000% guarantee you he has NO idea what the Insurrection Act or the Posse Comitatus Act is.
Yes blame 400 years of white and black hatred on Trump - Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, Obama did nothing for blacks - except take their votes
Oh boy, can’t wait for tianamen square 2
SpeakerPelosi Where is our Congress speaking out against what Trump is doing? Where are the checks and balances? Why are you not stopping him?
VOTE HIM OUT VOTE & VOTE THE GOP OUT TOO THE BALLETS ARE IN THE MAIL THANKS USPS VOTE
He is done.
When U need more distractions $tat a Criminal, a Con Man, a Grifter creates them 👇
He has truly lost
This probably more of a pressure move on the governors to get their states under control. It’s been allowed to go on far too long.
It is strange how so many of the Democrat Governors and Mayors refuse to stop the violence; tacitly supporting the violence.
That’s because DJT doesn’t have the skills to bring about peace or to comfort the grieving citizens of our country. His MO is to try to dominate. There is no message that he is receptive to.
What The Actual Fuck...?... 🇺🇸TheAntifaResistance🇺🇸
I mean no other country wants you on their land. So why not invade your own country ? Right? 😂😂😂😂😂I could not be this Dumb if I spent all my life trying. Respect, I guess, he managed to be good at one thing. BlackLivesMatter JusticeforAhmaudArbery justiceforflyod
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We had numerous chances to get rid of this mutt and you let him go. Now our beautiful country is a joke around the world.
Well people get influenced by their friends.
Ive seen this movie before. You need a scalpel, not a machete.
Coward!
We are just getting out of wars lets let these guys rest. This will all blow over give it another week. All Riot police and National Guard do not act like Idiots and stop Trump from tweeting and stop old white mayors from saying stupid shit and this will all stop.
Stupid man
Good.
NBCNews Trumpocracy is a corrupted, brutal dictatorship that promotes the genocides of Americans TrumpResignNow
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Lol you are such a Karen. Biden doesn’t even know where he is half the time. He was in his basement the last 3 months. What a leader lol
Noooooooo
NBCNews Or they could just encourage the weak authorities in Minneapolis to charge and convict the pigs who killed George with first degree murder. Like they should have done in the first place.
udogumpel In Germany under Hitler this was still called emergency ordinance, with these emergency ordinances he tortured and murdered socialists, communists, democrats and conservatives in concentration camps after the Reichstag fire. Is history repeating itself? dcprotest GeorgeFlyod
NBCNews Just move to russia
NBCNews Trump has shown America that he has no respect for anything or anyone, so it’s no wonder that young people don’t respect anything now. This is what happens when we have leaders that set an example of garbage. The MAGA crowd elected a racist, & now they reap what they’ve sown.
NBCNews realDonaldTrump is crazy enough to make it a CIVIL WAR. He'll do anything to avoid the truth of the upcoming election result. CIVIL WAR will be his result.
mattklewis NBCNews DC is the epicenter of this now. Trump has lit the fuse, and the protesters will only multiply in the coming days. Time for a reckoning, invoke the 25th
NBCNews Is Coldplay playing after the speech at the WH? Because I see more white people out there yelling “don’t shoot” than black people based on the tv coverage.
NBCNews We should hold off. The country needs to see what it would be like with the liberals and socialists in charge for a few days. Nobody to protect them from thugs. We need just a bit more preview.
NBCNews What a coincidence!! Rodney King, 1992...... I wonder are there any times when the troops had to be deployed for, I don't know, say, a John Smith 'incident' or a Jimmy Mac Tavish? Can't think of one off hand.
POTUS WhiteHouse Show him we will MAGA without him at the polls folks
MeetThePress Sedition is what he will charge.
MeetThePress That will be the end of his presidency.
These dems have no clue how to protect the citizens or the business. Someone needs to take charge.
Bring it ony
It’s illegal because there is not the necessity for it!!
NBCNews Donny made it now to fix it and win some votes. Or so the idea goes, Will be fix things or just have thousands killed ?
NBCNews Wrong move. Should order Fed to print another $6 trillion instead. If it worked for pandemic it’ll work for riots
NBCNews He doesn't know what it is.
'Every time something bad happens, people cry out for safety and the government answers by taking more rights away.'
here we go, the Big Boys, and they play rough!! BUT they are our boys and girls. They have ethics unlike cops!
Stealing taxpayer money and starting wars is a Republican policy that has never changed.
Trump is showing time & again what informed, educated Americans knew in 2016, that he’s unfit & incompetent for this job. Sadly however, it’s needlessly costing American lives! Americans must vote this thing out of WH in November!
NBCNews Good. The Dnc approved riots need to end now.
NBCNews Weak president
No matter what the issue, Trump's only focus is reelection and pandering to his base.
He's bound and determined to start a war and kill even more Americans.
Obama never had to invoke the Insurrection Act. He knew how to lead this country. Invoking it makes realDonaldTrump look so weak. Like he can't handle things. Obama wins again!
dcon501 He does that and there reall will be an insurrection.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should FLAT OUT REFUSE trumps ILLEGAL and IMMORAL ORDER.
If trump calls out the army, trump must be removed from office now.
And you know this because you have the contents of his mind playing out on a screen in front of you, I suppose? Stop fear-mongering. Wake up people! This is how they foment hatred and divide our nation!
NBCNews Trump invoking the Insurrection Act will seal his fate as a 1 term president.
Trump wants a RAHOWA.
the gop need to do their job and remove this incompetent stain from office now.
It’s about time.
Oh my but who is down protecting the border from all the Guatemalan mothers and toddlers without shoes?
NBCNews I will do social media management monthly for your facebook business page. Hit the message button and share your requirements before placing an order!
NBCNews why would they need active-duty when the National Guard is just sitting around doing nothing...
NBCNews Everybody saying do it is a dipshit
NBCNews Good..whatever it takes to stop this. You think yy now the Media would care about citizens more than these criminals.
NBCNews Trump is the President of destruction.
Kent State. Ohio.
NBCNews He’s about to go full traitor of the constitution... that’s super unsettling
NBCNews The only insurrection is in the WH. Posse Comitaus Act . Look it up
NBCNews Enough talk... Do it!
NBCNews What will we get for using the military against US citizens besides more debt and a possible long-term conflict? Trump needs congressional approval.
NBCNews Everyone get ready to use this gif a lot in the coming days...
NBCNews Sounds good or people are going to get killed! I have 3 brothers that took all their weapons to my elderly Mother's home to protect her and property!
NBCNews Good...
NBCNews good
Go Donald Trump,invoke the Insurrection Act. your supporters will love it,That's whey they elected you. 'Make America Great Again', and get four more years. Just because Donald Trump disrespect the law, and his supporters defend Trump,Lock blacks up
Watch this former BlackLivesMatter organizer talk about leftists setting them up to get slaughtered; Then watch this stream from last night at the GeorgeFloyd memorial in Minneapolis; Wake up, before it's too late BlackTwitter
Somebody help us
Go ahead, sign it into action. Shoot American citizens, revoke our freedoms, force us to salute Trump's picture, change our money, make us wear the same clothing. Erase our history so it looks like they were all bad people. When will Americans WAKE UP!
Thats the wrong move. He WILL be sorry. That's a guarantee!
Just stay out of it. You’ll just make it worse.
I hope every single military personnel who goes out takes a knee with the rest of them.
He needs to do that ASAP. It’s not protests they are responding to. It’s looting, rioting, and DomesticTerrorism they are responding to. FakeNews trying to glorify what these people are doing.
He lost his right to be critical about China as President Xi love his people and will not turn the guns against his people nor allow his people to perish under Covid-19 virus.
This will end up in a civil war. I was appalled at seeing the National Guard shooting paint at folks standing on their porch in Minnesota last night; appalled at Louisville police shooting pepper bullets at the press. Someone will get killed and when it happens, it'll be 2 late.
The realDonaldTrump presidency: 100,000+ Americans dead, the highest unemployment in 90 years, the highest national debt in US history citizens rioting in the street...and Trump planning to order US troops to attack them. In other words, pretty much what everyone expected.
But he has committed Treasonous Insurrection, even recently. Will they arrest him.first?
It would be illegal to invoke the Insurrection Act. However, there is no one with enough balls to stop him.
While Joe Biden goes out into the community and listens...a true leader. TeamJoe JoeBiden
He's gonna do it. Get ready to say goodbye to the internet to.
Tough talk from a draft Dodger and bully. Militarization of the White House compound. It's his delusional/dystopian fantasy. TrumpLiesAmericansDie ReichstagFire
We will see how much everyone still supports the troops when they are forced by their commander in chief to open fire on their friends/neighbors.
This is how a real civil war starts. Call your senators.
RodneyClaeys Hmm seems he got his mission from Putin today.
This would be a disastrous escalation of events.
Vote for Bernie
He needs to shut up, get off Twitter inciting more protests and let these governors and mayors do their jobs since he clearly can’t do his
Trump is destroying America, the country will never have the same respect again, the world has stopped laughing at trump and his supporters the world is now crying
It's another Democrat trap to blame Trump for ANY/ALL deaths incurred to stop the carnage. Democrat 'Governors' and 'Mayors' want him to do it. It's obvious by their inaction and BS late curfews that aren't being enforced or working. DemocratsTheEnemyWithin
The realDonaldTrump presidency: 100,000+ Americans dead, the highest unemployment in 90 years, citizens rioting in the street...and Trump planning to order US troops to attack them. In other words, pretty much what everyone expected. TrumpDeathToll100K TrumpCrimes
Ummmm yes this is appropriate. This needs to end ASAP.
Shame on you amerika
Considering the cities are incapable of handling it themselves, it’s a about time
Pay attention everyone. This is what he’s been waiting for. TheRickWilson RadioFreeTom SteveSchmidtSES ProjectLincoln
He don’t know what or how to do anything
Trump needs to be removed from office TONIGHT.
This is the RW endgame...
This is on anybody who didn't bother to vote in 2016.
when will The GOP shows its backbone and stop this dictator to save our nation that he has made a mess of
Good “if” true
Hiding in his bunker CellarSissy
Republicans actively considering furrowed brows and wagging some fingers. Cc SenatorCollins
Like the Dictator he is
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