Trump mulls invoking the Insurrection Act and signals he'll send troops to San Francisco [View all]
Source: The Independent
Sunday 19 October 2025 19:45 BST
President Donald Trump strongly suggested that he was preparing to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on dissent nationwide in an interview Sunday while warning that National Guard deployments would take place in San Francisco next.
He spoke in a pre-recorded discussion that aired Sunday on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo about using the power of the federal government to militarize the National Guard in states where he and his team claim that Democratic officials are refusing to cooperate with federal law enforcement and crime-fighting efforts, including the White House’s mass deportation campaign.
During the conversation, he falsely asserted that nearly half of all U.S. presidents have invoked the act. Fifteen U.S. presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act (out of 45 men to hold the position in total).
“Don’t forget, and I haven’t used it, but don’t forget: I can use the Insurrection Act. 50 percent of the presidents, almost, have used that. And that's unquestioned power,” the president told Bartiromo, before making a somewhat garbled point about Democratic state officials: “I choose not to. I’d rather do this [without invoking it]. But I’m met constantly by fake politicians, politicians that think that they – you know, it’s not a part of the radical left movement to have safety.” He also confirmed that he was imminently planning to send National Guard troops to San Francisco, while describing himself as “the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-insurrection-act-troops-san-francisco-b2848159.html
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