President Trump has insisted he made a “great decision” in deploying the National Guard to tackle the Los Angeles protests, claiming the city faced total destruction if he had not intervened.
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“If we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated,” Trump posted on Truth Social in his first public comments on the crisis on Monday.
Gavin Newsom responded to Trump’s comments at the White House suggesting that the California governor should be arrested by accusing the president of marching America “toward authoritarianism”.
“The president of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting governor,” Newsom posted on X after Trump said that Tom Homan, the “border tsar”, should arrest him. Newsom dared Homan to arrest him earlier today.
“This is a day I hoped I would never see in America,” Newsom went on. “I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”
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