House Democrat Praises Trump’s LA Riot Response, National Guard Deployment

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) praised President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard personnel to Los Angeles earlier this month, stating that the unrest went far beyond the threshold of a “peaceful protest.”

While speaking with NewsNation, Cuellar correctly pointed out that federal agents came under sustained assault from left-wing mobs in the days leading up to the deployment.

“If there was a peaceful protest, that would have been one thing. But the moment we started seeing images of cars being burned and violence and throwing of bricks, then it changes,” he said. “And then that’s why you start talking about bringing the National Guard in at that particular time.”

Host Blake Burman asked, “So the court said that the President could federalize the National Guard. Do you think you got this one right?”

Cuellar answered in the affirmative. “If those peaceful protests — which they have a right to do that — but those fires that I’m looking at [on] your screen right now, when you see that, that’s not good. And I believe that’s why the National Guard came in at this time,” the congressman added.

“Look, I’m for peaceful protests, but any time you start creating — throwing bricks and hammers and burning cars and it turns criminal, then you’re talking about something that’s very different.”

In a significant win for the Trump Administration, a federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the president’s decision to federalize thousands of National Guard soldiers was valid.

The decision, issued late Thursday night, lets Trump keep control of approximately 4,000 members of the California National Guard who were called up to bring an end to the riots.

The move was quickly condemned by Governor Newsom, who sued to keep control of the soldiers and accused the president of acting “unlawfully.”

However, a three-member panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with Newsom, unanimously concluding that President Trump was within his authority to direct the troops.

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By Trent Walker

Trent Walker has over ten years experience as an undercover reporter, focusing on politics, corruption, crime, and deep state exposés.

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