While California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom unduly lets protests boil over into riots, President Donald Trump is taking the initiative to deploy the California National Guard to cool the fracas, according to Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
“I think what President Trump’s trying to do is pretty clear: He’s trying to de-escalate all the tensions that are there,” Lankford told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re watching [scenes of] burning cars in intersections and people waving [foreign] flags at local law enforcement, concrete blocks being thrown at federal law enforcement.”
Despite Newsom’s claims, that is not peaceful protest, and Trump has learned the lesson of Democrat-run American communities that just never learned the lessons of the 2020 George Floyd race riots, according to Lankford.
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