NATIONAL GUARD/POLICE: “Kenosha has been ravaged by anti-police and anti-American riots. They have been hit so hard, and we were able to get involved…
My administration coordinated with the state and local authorities to very, very swiftly deploy the National Guard, surge federal law enforcement to Kenosha, and stop the violence. And I strongly support the use of the National Guard in other cities, and the same thing would be happening — if we did that, you’d have the same thing happen in Portland, and it would happen very quickly. It would all be over very, very quickly.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During a Wisconsin Community Safety Roundtable | Kenosha, WI,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 1, 2020