White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller laid out the Trump Administration’s reasoning for deploying increased federal assets, and in some cases National Guard and military personnel, to blue cities in order to combat rising political violence coming from the political left.
President Donald Trump has readied plans to deploy National Guard troops to multiple blue cities, including Portland and Chicago, which have been rocked by sustained leftist violence and rioting over the last several weeks.
This past weekend federal agents in Chicago were attacked by far-left agitators who rammed their vehicles into federal convoys. In one instance, federal agents were “boxed in” by multiple vehicles and were forced to open fire on one rioter who was armed with a semiautomatic firearm.
In a shocking turn of events, the Chicago Police Department ordered officers not to respond to the scene as agents were being surrounding by an angry mob. The department has disputed the order, though it has been confirmed by auto-generated police dispatches, the police scanner and multiple department sources.
On Monday, Miller joined CNN to discuss the administration’s response to left-wing violence and the reasoning behind using National Guard personnel. “They are actually, as we speak, trying to overthrow the core law enforcement function of the federal government,” Miller said of the ongoing unrest in Chicago, Portland and elsewhere.
“You keep calling them terrorists, but isn’t that, isn’t that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?” CNN’s Boris Sanchez followed up, to which Miller replied, “No, if anything, I’m understating the severity of the situation.”
“You say that I’m not using the right term. What would you describe-… an organized campaign of violence, fear, intimidation, and doxing, including attacks by sniper, attacks by vehicle ramming. What would you call that, whose sole aim and objective is to disable the functions of an entire federal law enforcement agency, if not domestic terrorism? What other term would apply?”
Sanchez doubled down on describing the rioters as “demonstrators” and argued that the protests outside ICE facilities and federal buildings have largely remained peaceful. “If a Democratic president someday calls the National Guard to a red state over what they see as open rebellion, but is what amounts to a demonstration. That gets rowdy. I mean, is that not a fear?” Sanchez asked.
“They’re posting pictures of their kids because it’s a demonstration. They have a sniper on top of a building firing a high caliber rifle at a nice facility because it’s a demonstration. And they are engaging a vehicle, ramming it-,” Miller responded, at which point Sanchez cut him off to note that National Guard personnel were not being deployed to Texas, where two anti-ICE terrorist attacks have been committed within the last several weeks.
“The National Guard isn’t being sent to Dallas where that sniper was. Because the Dallas Police Department and the governor of Texas. Well, you walked right into that one, have responded to every call for assistance and help,” Miller shot back.
“They gave a stand -down order in Chicago and they gave a stand -down order in Portland. Do you realize that there’s 11 ,000 federal law enforcement officers in Oregon? That’s larger than the size of the FBI. Local and state police are resourced to deal with this kind of riotous assembly, but they have refused. They’ve been given a stand -down order.”
Sanchez once again attempted to downplay the scale of the unrest, stating that dozens of arrests have been conducted over the last several weeks. “We literally have the 911 audio of this stand-down order in Chicago, and we have documented inside of DHS every single unresponded to 911 call over the recent weeks and months,” Miller answered.
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