President Trump stated on Tuesday that National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles would remain deployed until authorities deem the area secure, while sharply criticizing California Governor Gavin Newsom for losing control of the violent anti-ICE demonstrations.
“When there’s no danger, they’ll leave,” Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office.
“You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them and horrible — you’d be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction that’s not going to take place. I think if you look every night, it got less and less. They were met with very strong force, the bad people, the bad sick people that do what they do.”
Trump revealed that he had spoken directly with Newsom over the phone just one day prior and urged him to manage the situation more effectively.
“I told him to do a better job,” the president said.
The federal deployment began over the weekend, with Trump approving the mobilization of 4,000 National Guard troops and an additional 700 Marines. The move came in response to the chaos that erupted on Friday following a wave of immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city.
{Matzav.com}
