(Todd A. Smith)
Oh really.
Now, President Donald Trump wants to consider using the Insurrection Act to stop ICE protests in Minneapolis because he wants to stop violence.
However, he did not use his powers to deploy the military on American streets when the violence benefitted him in his attempt to overthrow democracy in 2020 and 2021.
That is why many Americans see past his nonsense and realize that President Trump is only against violence or the threat of violence when it comes from his so-called political enemies.
But he is totally fine with similar or worse violence when it will advance his priorities.
Al Jazeera reported, “United States President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke a rarely used federal law to deploy troops to the state of Minnesota, where protests are being held against two shootings in the city of Minneapolis within a week related to his immigration crackdown.”
On Thursday on social media, Trump wrote, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State.”
The hypocrisy in Trump’s recent Truth Social post is that on Jan. 6, 2021, just like the ICE agents, lawmakers were only doing their job when Trump ignored the evil and violent threats that his supporters were making when they were just trying to certify the election victory of former President Joe Biden.
Also hypocritical is the fact that a convicted felon is lecturing people on following the law.
But back to Jan. 6.
Former Vice President Mike Pence was just fulfilling his constitutional duties when Trump supporters threatened to hang him.
Capital security was trying to their job when some were demonically assaulted by the conspiracy theorists who believe every lie that Trump tells them.
However, he never condemned their violence.
He applauded them, enjoying every bit of the insurrection on a television in the White House.
Trump did not care about people doing their job of protecting American democracy and the will of the American people.
Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act for the rebellion in Minneapolis, while praising and pardoning the insurrectionists from Jan. 6, proves that he only cares about himself and his followers who will risk their lives to aid in his evil desire to rule the world.
If a person or state did not support Trump, he does not even attempt to govern for them.
In essence, Trump is the president of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and not the President of the United States of America.
A good president governs with the entire country’s best interest in mind.
Yes, politicians have always done things to appeal to their voters.
But never before has a president ignored the welfare of at least half of the country like Trump.
Now, even some of Trump’s supporters have grown weary of his divisive governing tactics.
Aaron Blake of CNN wrote, “There is a problem with the Insurrection Act, though, and it’s apparently the same one that has prevented Trump from using it before: It’s drastic. CNN’s Alayana Treene reports White House officials have been concerned about the politics of this idea. It’s the kind of thing you want to be very sure people are ready for and feel is legitimate.
“It seems unlikely Americans feel that way now.
“Indeed, if anything, they seem to think the unrest in Minneapolis is the government’s fault in the first place.
“The big example is, of course, the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent last week. Despite the administration claiming Good was at-fault and even engaged in ‘domestic terrorism,’ multiple polls have now shown Americans strongly disagree.
“They all show people saying that the shooting was not justified or appropriate by between 18 and 30 points. The CNN poll showed registered voters said it was ‘inappropriate’ by a 2-to-1 margin, 56%-26%.”
Honestly Trump’s entire leadership style is inappropriate and those who support it are equally inappropriate and ignorant.
There is no reason to use the Insurrection Act against the citizens of Minneapolis because without Trump’s gestapo tactics, no one would be protesting in the streets in the first place.
The people who protest in Minneapolis, going back to the protests after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, do so because they object to evil, racism and hatred.
It was evil and racism that murdered Floyd.
It was evil that killed Good because her actions did not justify the officer killing her despite what the law might say.
It is racism and evil that has ICE agents harassing people based on the color of their skin or their accent.
But somehow Trump always sides with the people committing racist and evil acts.
Go figure.
Trump’s staff and supporters use words like agitators and rage baiters to describe people protesting his regime’s tactics.
Those are similar words that people like former Birmingham, Ala. police commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor would use to describe civil rights protestors in the 1960s.
When racists are violent, people like Trump and Connor see no problem with their behavior.
But when people are protesting racism like how ICE is targeting people of color, they become troublemakers, terrorists and insurrectionists.
The double standard is blatant regarding race.
And many people still wonder why so many people call Trump a racist.
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