Posted on 07/13/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by RandFan
@thehill
#BREAKING: President Trump says federal government may "take over cities" to combat rising crime: "Numbers are going to be coming down even if we have to go and take over cities."
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Lefties will lose their minds, Scarborough will call him Hitler. Meanwhile, he’ll never do it.
how much crime is to much crime?
he’s going to have reference vastly underreported crime to justify that move
Master troll.
He has final authority over every state’s National Guard unless I’m wrong.
If police are just standing by while people are getting hurt and killed, I can understand why they are demoralized but then yeah, Trump should sent the Guard in big time.
Turning into 3rd world, some of these cities
As much as we'd like him to, he can't do it and he won't do it.
That may be...but the mere threat might scare the pants off these dem mayors whose little fiefdoms are being threatened. President Trump didn’t have to lift a finger to shut down CHAZ. All he had to do was threaten to send in the Troops, and BINGO, the mayor takes care of it for him. :-)
Some of the stuff he says seems crazy and bombastic, but it sometimes gets results.
The order should only be temporary for the next four months which will be November 13th.
When rioters are killing people specifically because of their race, that’s too much crime.
It’s not a random occurrence from a nut.
It’s an army of people, many with guns.
I have seen a lot of BLM “marches”
They turn into quite a bit more at the drop of a dime
Annotation: Martial law involves the temporary substitution of military authority for civilian rule and is usually invoked in time of war, rebellion, or natural disaster.
Abstract: When martial law is in effect, the military commander of an area or country has unlimited authority to make and enforce laws. Martial law is justified when civilian authority has ceased to function, is completely absent, or has become ineffective. Further, martial law suspends all existing laws, as well as civil authority and the ordinary administration of justice. In the United States, martial law may be declared by proclamation of the President or a State governor, but such a formal proclamation is not necessary. Although the U.S. Constitution makes no specific provision for the imposition of martial law, nearly every State has a constitutional provision authorizing the government to impose martial law. The power of martial law, once held to be nearly absolute, has limitations; for example, civilians may not be tried by military tribunals as long as civilian courts are functional. Nonetheless, within the bounds of court decisions, a military commander’s authority under martial law is virtually unlimited. Martial law has been declared nine times since World War II and, in five instances, was designed to counter resistance to Federal desegregation decrees in the South. Although a climate of mutual aid has always existed between the military and civilian law enforcement and should continue to exist, Department of Defense personnel are limited in what they can do to enforce civil law. Military personnel cannot be used in surveillance or undercover operations, and they may not be used as informants, investigators, or interrogators unless the investigation is a joint military-civilian operation in which the military has an interest in the case’s outcome.
The Feds already do a lousy job of arresting rioters and perps when they attack Federal buildings. Just enforce current law.
He is setting the liberals up. They are going to scream loudly that Trump doesn’t have the authority and that only the liberals have the authority. This forces the liberals to own the problem.
LOL
Typical Trump! He loves to watch the dangerously stupid left run around with their hair on fire.
Remember how Obama took over local law enforcement.
Can't help it if you are a never Trump RINO snowflake troll.
Will be fun to watch all the Communist “mayors” argue local sovereignty against this.
Isn’t that what we’ve been saying for decades?
The President doesn’t have plenary power over cities in anarchy, it has to go to the State governor first, and should. But beyond that, why can’t the President order in the Guard or even troops? Eisenhower and Kennedy BOTH did it to enforce what, a Supreme Court order?
Will be fun to hear them splutter out our words. Hope they choke on them.
Impractical at any event. But it’s good pdjt calls attention of the entire nation to the third world dangerous big cities the D party has created in our country. Many Americans instinctively stay the hell away from such sheit holes and so don’t know what a horrid mess the Democratic Party machine has made of them
Or make them defend their own refusal to protect the public.
Do you live on the west side of Chicago?
No, you don’t. Your POV may be different.
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