President Trump threatened to use the military to end the civil unrest in cities.
“These are not acts of peaceful protest,” Trump said during a brief speech in the White House Rose Garden, referring to the demonstrations and sometimes violent acts that have broken out in dozens of major cities. “These are acts of domestic terror.”
During his speech, Trump said he is an ally of legitimate protesters. Yet as he did so, authorities fired into peaceful crowds across the street from the White House and advanced on horseback, so that Trump could later walk with a phalanx of Secret Service agents to St. John’s Episcopal Church. He held up a Bible for the cameras and posed with Atty. Gen., among others, in front of the boarded-up building, where a fire had been set the previous night.
Trump’s bellicose language and his threat to use the 19th century Insurrection Act to allow deployment of military personnel came after 48 hours in which he had been mostly silent in public, except for his angry Twitter feed. But in private, during a call with governors Monday, Trump called most of them weak and urged them to “dominate” the protesters, according to a person on the call.
A second person with knowledge of the call described the president as “bellicose,” raising the possibility of military action and describing the situation as a war. The message was echoed by Esper, who described the need to “dominate the battlespace,” language normally used to describe far-flung conflict zones instead of American streets.
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