President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that if he hadn’t sent National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the last three nights, the city would be “burning to the ground,” comparing the situation to the wildfires that devastated the city last year.
“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now, much like 25,000 houses burned to the ground in L.A. do to an incompetent Governor and Mayor,” he posted on Truth Social.
Trump has ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, to LA, in addition to 2,000 Guard troops sent over the weekend to the city, where protests are raging over immigration laws critics say are breaking up migrant families.
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