President Trump on Sunday said people participating in protests in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks and praised the National Guard for "a job well done" after deploying them to the city to settle the protests.
"These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED," he wrote on Truth Social early Sunday morning. "Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???"
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday went after President Trump over the deployment of 2,000 National Guardsmen to the Los Angeles area, saying the president "thinks he has a right to do anything."
"He does not believe in the Constitution; he does not believe in the rule of law," Sanders told CNN's Dana Bash of Trump on "State of the Union."
"My understanding is that the governor of California, the mayor of the city of Los Angeles, did not request the National Guard, but he thinks he has a right to do anything he wants," he added. |
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Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the deployment of the National Guard to the Los Angeles area is "going to escalate the situation."
"It's a concern," Barragán told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "I mean, it's going to escalate the situation. People are going to protest because they're angry about the situation, and we have to just reiterate to people to do it peacefully." |
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| Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said President Trump's decision to deploy 2,000 National Guardsmen to the Los Angeles area without a governor's signoff is an effort to "de-escalate" the situation.
"I think what President Trump's trying to do is pretty clear. He's trying to de-escalate all the tensions that are there," he said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." |
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| Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) slammed President Trump's response to the protests in Los Angeles as "hypocritical at best" compared to how he responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
NBC's Kristen Welker asked Booker about his thoughts on Trump deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to the Los Angeles area without a governor's signoff amid protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. Despite the National Guard's deployment, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said there was no unmet need for law enforcement.
"Since years before I was born, law enforcement knows it's good when there's cooperation and coordination," Booker said. "For the president to do this when it wasn't requested, breaking with generations of tradition, is only going to incite the situation and make things worse." |
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