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Statement by the President

This primary source from The White House supports 1 claim across 1 ledger entry.

Publisher
The White House
Published
2020-06-01
Accessed
2026-09-03
Source quality
primary

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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.”

    Paragraph beginning 'If a city or state refuses'

    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. · reviewed 2026-09-03