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Donald Trump backed away from his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act. “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it,” he said, “but if I needed it, I’d use it.”
- A top Trump adviser told Axios that the president is unhappy with the optics from Minnesota: “He wants deportations. He wants mass deportations. What he doesn’t want is what people are seeing. He doesn’t like the way it looks.”
He turned down the heat on Iran, thanking Iranian officials for halting what he said would have been 800 executions.