Today’s notice: Rhetoric and reality in Minneapolis. Earmarks cause fussin’ and fightin’ in the House. How Trump finally got his Nobel Prize. And: Guess the letter grade that seven independent Latino voters gave Trump 2.0 so far?
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What are we supposed to think about this? “I think he’s threatened that in other places, other states too. So, we’ll see what happens there,” John Thune told reporters yesterday in the hours after Donald Trump said he was ready to use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to Minneapolis.
Shrug is the common response. Maybe Trump will do what he threatens, maybe he won’t. Probably won’t.
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“I can’t imagine that we’re gonna have tanks in the middle of Minneapolis,” Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican who said he’s broadly supportive of deploying the National Guard to cities, told Emily. “I don’t think we’re gonna have the Air Force flying over the city and all that. I just don’t think that’s gonna happen.”