this is a very interesting and extremely clever tactic.

the tds crowd is likely to scream, 'aha! trump is so stupid, you can't do that, the house of representatives controls the purse, and the democrats control the house, and will not listen to bad orange man!'

they are partly right but they don't get the point.

it is true that the house controls the purse. cities have been pressured using defunding before (see: the 21 drinking age) but only congress can do it. house democrats will obviously not do what trump wants, and therefore they will be seen as refusing to pressure the cities to end the riots. the ball is kicked right back into the democrats' faces.

what they want him to do is invoke the insurrection act, so they can scream fascism, despite the fact that their own democrat LBJ invoked it i think four times in the 1960s riots, and typically after only days of rioting.

this was severely detrimental to LBJ's reputation, to say the least. jeeploads of guardsmen with fixed bayonets make good rotogravure. trump obviously is well aware of this bad effect, and does not want to be pressured into invoking the act of 1807.

by refusing to do so, and instead doing this, he is forcing the democrats in congress to take responsibility for ending the riots in the democrat-controlled cities.

and even if he does eventually invoke the insurrection act it will be only because he has been forced to do so by democrat intransigence.

our president is making sure credit is given where credit is due.

the democrat party.

very clever.

this is a very interesting and extremely clever tactic.

the tds crowd is likely to scream, 'aha! trump is so stupid, you can't do that, the house of representatives controls the purse, and the democrats control the house, and will not listen to bad orange man!'

no, they won't. and therefore they will be seen as refusing to pressure the cities to end the riots. the ball is kicked right back into the democrats' faces.

what they want him to do is invoke the insurrection act, so they can scream fascism, despite the fact that their own democrat LBJ invoked it i think four times in the 1960s riots, and typically after only days of rioting.

this was severely detrimental to LBJ's reputation, to say the least. jeeploads of guardsmen with fixed bayonets make good rotogravure. trump obviously is well aware of this bad effect, and does not want to be pressured into invoking the act of 1807.

by refusing to do so, and instead doing this, he is forcing the democrats in congress to take responsibility for ending the riots in the democrat-controlled cities.

and even if he does eventually invoke the insurrection act it will be only because he has been forced to do so by democrat intransigence.

our president is making sure credit is given where credit is due.

the democrat party.

very clever.

this is a very interesting and extremely clever tactic.

the tds crowd is likely to scream, 'aha! trump is so stupid, you can't do that, the house of representatives controls the purse, and the democrats control the house, and will not listen to bad orange man!'

no, they won't. and therefore they will be seen as refusing to pressure the cities to end the riots. the ball is kicked right back into the democrats' faces.

what they want him to do is invoke the insurrection act, so they can scream fascism, despite the fact that their own democrat LBJ invoked it i think four times in the 1960s riots, and typically after only days of rioting.

this was severely detrimental to LBJ's reputation, to say the least. jeeploads of guardsmen with fixed bayonets make good rotogravure. trump obviously is well aware of this bad effect, and does not want to be pressured into invoking the act of 1807.

by refusing to do so, and instead doing this, he is forcing the democrats in congress to take responsibility for ending the riots in the democrat-controlled cities.

and even if he does eventually invoke the insurrection act it will be only because he has been forced to do so by democrat intransigence.

very clever.