DeSantis: Trump Should Have Used Troops Against BLM

Florida Politics reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis has quibbled about whether the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol Riots constituted an insurrection, but he has no such qualms about making a similar declaration about Black Lives Matter protests and how he would have handled them.

“You as the president, you absolutely have the right to prevent this type of rioting. You know, Bush 41 sent people to L.A. in 92. So Trump could have done it. He refused to do it.”

“I think he was worried that the press would attack him. He was concerned about, you know, re-election and everything,” DeSantis said in Ankeny, Iowa on Sunday, suggesting that Trump should have invoked the Insurrection Act and mobilized federal law enforcement and military backups in 2020.

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‘Trump could have done it. He refused to do it.’@RonDeSantis thinks Insurrection Act should have been used against Black Lives Matter protests

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