to take charge, here! Tim Walz sure isn’t… And in the absence of state leadership, the Feds have to intervene, as has been done MANY times in the past.
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump warned that he could invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the military to Minneapolis. The warning came as demonstrations escalated following the Wednesday evening shooting of a man by federal agents and last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Good, the anti-ICE protester who attempted to run over an agent with her vehicle. Trump blamed corrupt politicians in Minnesota for doing nothing to stop the violence, which has included rioting, looting federal vehicles, and the continued obstruction and assault of federal officers.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., 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,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
But yeah, it’s not really a new thing, though it has not been done much since the 1990s. As Grok tells us:
The federal government—specifically, U.S. presidents—has invoked the Insurrection Act approximately 30 times in American history…[emphasis in original]