President Trump was heading to Camp David earlier on Sunday to huddle with military advisors and others in his administration, in the aftermath of Los Angeles turning into a mishmash of violence and disorder during anti-ICE protests, which began on Friday there. More on his latest comments in a minute, since this needs a little background from Saturday night.
I think it might be useful to show ahead of time, also, how Homeland Security is being as clear as possible about the consequences for anyone causing havoc or working to raise the current unrest in L.A. They are not playing around about attempted assaults on officers and intentional damage to federal property:
As many readers know by now, the president federalized the state National Guard in California Saturday, despite the Democrat governor and local officials failing to step up to quell the chaos. The LAPD leadership also didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory with how they reacted to the reality of things.