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    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.”

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    Trump threatened to deploy the United States military against unrest in American cities · Explicit conditional threat; the cited statement did not itself execute an Insurrection Act deployment.