Trump threatened to deploy the United States military against unrest in American cities
Reporting and findings
- documented
Trump said that if governors did not deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers, he would deploy the United States military and “quickly solve the problem.”
- The White House: Statement by the PresidentParagraph beginning 'If a city or state refuses'
Summary and current status
Explicit conditional threat; the cited statement did not itself execute an Insurrection Act deployment.
People and organizations
- June 2020 threat to deploy the United States military domesticallyconditional domestic military threat
- Donald J. Trumppresident making the threat
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpthreatened domestic military deployment against unrestJune 2020 threat to deploy the United States military domestically