CNN reported that 700 Marines were being sent while Bloomberg cited at least 500. CNN cited three people familiar who said that the Marines were sent to the city from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California.Greg Abbot did this with the TNG in 2023. It did not go well. The soldiers had nothing to do. Morale cratered. Some went AWOL and went home. Some attempted suicide. Word is they aren’t doing better by the NG this time.
"The deployment of the full Marine battalion marks a significant escalation in Trump’s use of the military as a show of force against protesters," the CNN report said. The sources acknowledged that it's unclear what the mission is.
Marines, like the National Guard, are legally barred from serving as law enforcement.
I don’t expect the Marines to do anything but be professional, but are we going to give them rubber bullets and tear gas launchers? It’s bad enough when cops shoot journalists with rubber bullets. Anecdotal evidence is the protests are peaceful for the most part. But Trump never saw a fire he couldn’t throw gasoline on.
I don’t think anybody needs to back down. But I don’t think they need to burn any more cars, either.
I’m seriously wondering if Stephen Miller didn’t do this via autopen, and Trump hasn’t heard about it yet.Q: Are you going to deploy Marines in California?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 9, 2025
TRUMP: We'll see what happens pic.twitter.com/pkgHMRaLOh
The police casually shooting the foreign reporter knocked another couple hundred thousand overseas tourists from visiting the US in at least the next few years, and a other ten thousand or more foreign students from applying. You cam be sure that clip is being shown everywhere.
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