DOJ IG Details How Close Trump Came To Invoking Insurrection Act in 2020
Source: Talking Points Memo
In June 2020, as demonstrations around the killing of George Floyd reached their peak, Trump administration officials did extensive work laying the groundwork for the President to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to quell the protests, an Inspector General report released on Wednesday found.
The Justice Department’s Inspector General detailed how close Donald Trump and then-Attorney General Bill Barr came on June 1 to invoking the Insurrection Act, which gives the President nearly limitless powers to use the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.
Some FBI officials believed that Trump would invoke the act, and were studying what it would mean for their agency. The D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI Washington Field Office were asked to prepare information showing that civilian law enforcement was incapable of handling the situation, providing the justification for federal troops.
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The New York Times reported the drafts in 2021, and NBC reported on Trump’s interest in invoking the Act in June 2020. But the Inspector General’s report adds new details and perspective on an episode that looms over the chaotic final year of the Trump administration.
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When we say we're fighting against a Trump dictatorship, this is what we mean. This is the evidence
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One of Q45's wet dreams, pulling people off the streets like that. I hope that he looses in a landslide, parting of the seas sized, and then dies in a fit of rage within 24 hours afterward. Problem solved, he'll suffer one of the greatest embarrassments he can imagine and then die some hideous death in full public view.
