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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Trump turns down heat on his threat to use the Insurrection Act: ‘I don’t think there’s any reason right now’

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the possibility he would invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests in Minnesota, just a day after he threatened to use the emergency law to send the military in as part of his administration’s ongoing crackdown on the state.

Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he saw “no reason” to use the act, which was last invoked in the 1990s.

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