President Trump has vowed to bring any rioting or civil unrest during November’s election to a quick end.
“We’ll put them down very quickly. Look, it’s called insurrection,” he said in an interview with Fox News host Jeannine Pirro. “We have the right to do that. We have the power to do that, if we want.”
“We just send in, and we do it very easy. I mean, it’s very easy. I’d rather not do that because there’s no reason for it, but if we had to, we’d do that and put it down within minutes,” he added.
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807 a U.S. President has the right to use the nation’s military forces to quell any insurrection, violence or conspiracy that “obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.”
We’ve previously reported on how Democratic-led groups are planning to spark massive protests in the country should President Trump win reelection, in order to extract degradations in Constitutional norms.
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