USA. Donald Trump about “paid rebels” in Los Angeles. “They met with great strength”

Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that he would benefit from a law allowing the use of the army in suppressing the riots, if he considers that the country is arising in the country. He also said that the riots in Los Angeles are the work of “paid rebels”.

Donald Trump He commented on protests that have been ongoing for four days against the deportation of immigrants in Los Angeles. Although on Monday he claimed that thanks to sending troops to the metropolis the situation was under control, on Tuesday he assessed that the last night was “terrible”. He described photos of the participants of the riots seen on television to split curbs to throw their pieces at the police.

Trump about riots in Los Angeles: they meet with very high force

– We stopped the disaster – and it looks like a planned disaster (…). They had weapons, they had tools. They had everything they needed. They threw frozen water in bottles, in glass bottles, in officers and soldiers. The word will not be used, but you can also use the word that these are very dangerous people – continued Trump. He added that demonstrators “met with great force and surrendered.”

“And there may be a bit of them tonight, but it seems that there are fewer and fewer, because they meet with a lot of strength,” he said.

Trump said that he would use the Insurrection Act, allowing the use of the army to actively suppress the riots, if he decides that there is actually an armed uprising in the country. At the same time, he claimed that “paid rebels” were involved in protests.

National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles

On Monday, the federal authorities sent about 700 marine infantry soldiers to Los Angeles (Marines) and put them in a state of readiness another 2,000. soldiers of the California National Guard. Their official role is to protect agents of the ICE immigration service and federal buildings, not pacification of start -ups.

California authorities lodged a complaint against this decision to the court, while the governor of this state of Gavin accused Trump of using the army for political competitions, as well as not to disrupt the appropriate conditions for him, as a result of which soldiers must sleep on the floor of federal buildings.

According to Pentagon The cost of sending the National Guard is $ 134 million.

President Trump was asked when he recently talked to the Governor Newsom. He replied that “yesterday”. – I called him to tell him, let him try more. He does a bad job – he said.

The governor himself reacted to these words the same day. “There was no conversation. Even a voice message. Americans should be concerned that the president who deployed infantry to our streets does not even know who he is talking to,” Gavin wrote to News on the website X.

Protests against collapse in other cities

On Tuesday, the president USA He warned that federal forces would react similarly to Los Angeles. – If we did not attack it very much, we would have (riots) throughout the country. But I can inform the rest of the country that if they do it, they will meet with equal or greater strength than here – he announced.

He also warned those who – as he said – “hate the country” and plan a protest during the military parade planned for Saturday in Washington. He announced that he would not give up further mass detention of immigrants and raids on workplaces such as those that provoked violent protests in Los Angeles.

So far, protests against collapse of immigrants have also been held in other American cities, including in San Francisco, Dallas, New York and Atlanta.

The head of the Ministry of National Security (DHS), who appeared next to Trump, condemned the presidential statement Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum on protests. Although Sheinbaum condemned the use of violence “in all forms”, she also made the USA with a “firm” appeal that “all immigration procedures would be carried out with respect for the proper trial, as part of respect for human dignity and the rule of law.”

Learn more:

Tvn24