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We talked for almost 20 minutes, and he barely — this issue never came up.

The Secretary of Defense is now threatening to deploy active-duty Marines on American soil against its own citizens. This is deranged behavior.

This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me.

In dynamic and fluid situations such as the one in Los Angeles, State and local authorities are the most appropriate ones to evaluate the need for resources and safeguard life and property.

If you deploy the National Guard, it’s going to be very incendiary, and things are going to erupt, and that creates a public safety problem.

The level of escalation is completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and unprecedented.

He had absolutely positively no reason to even say that.

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

They yell 'invasion' at the border—but this is the real one: Trump is seizing control of California's National Guard and forcing 2,000 troops into our streets.

This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they're actually needed.

Using the National Guard this way is a completely inappropriate and misguided mission.

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle.
