NATIONAL GUARD/PROTESTS: “It’s not our job unless, in case of emergency — which I consider now to be an emergency — it’s not our job to go in and clean out the cities. That’s supposed to be done by local law enforcement…
We’re telling them, right now, that we’re coming in very soon — the National Guard. A lot of people. A lot of very tough people…
So they’re working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive of — of terrorists. And if they do it, I’m going to be very happy. And then, slowly, we can start to leave the city. If they don’t do it, we’ll be sending in the National Guard.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020