Why Trump Invoking the Insurrection Act Over ICE Protests Would Be So Alarming

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President Donald Trump saw what U.S. forces could do in Venezuela, where he captured that nation’s leader and hauled him to New York on drug and weapons charges. Now Trump is mulling the use of the same military power to quiet the unrest in Minneapolis. It is a potentially stunning escalation by the President over a spiraling scene in which much of the public views his Administration as the instigators.