Trump on Insurrection Act: ‘I would certainly invoke it’
President Trump on Tuesday said he would “certainly” invoke the Insurrection Act to respond to the demonstrations on the streets of Los Angeles over his immigration policies, if he deemed the move necessary.
“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We’ll see,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “But I can tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible.”
When asked what would lead him to decide an insurrection is taking place, Trump said that in certain areas of Los Angeles last night “you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible.”