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June 28, 2021

Trump Sought to Use Insurrection Act to Crush Black Lives Matter Protests in 2020
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White House aides drafted a proclamation last June to invoke the
Insurrection Act, as then-President Trump considered deploying thousands
of active-duty troops in Washington, D.C., to suppress the protests that
followed the police killing of George Floyd. That's according to The New
York Times, which reports Trump had to be talked out of the plan to
invoke the Insurrection Act to call in the military.


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