Donald Trump has threatened to send the US military to quell protests in Minnesota, in what would be a major escalation in tensions with the state’s authorities a week after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a protester.
In a post to his Truth Social platform on Thursday, the US president said he was prepared to invoke a 19th-century law known as the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops to the Midwestern state.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump said.