President Donald Trump is on the offensive regarding the anti-immigration law enforcement riots in the Los Angeles area by mobilizing the National Guard in California against the wishes of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), a conflict Trump sees as a political winner.
By becoming the first president since Lyndon Johnson to dispatch the National Guard without a governor’s support, Trump not only sends a message to protesters but also provides himself with an opportunity to move on from last week, which was upended by the public deterioration of his relationship with Elon Musk.
“Trump wants this fight,” Claremont McKenna College politics professor John Pitney told the Washington Examiner from California. “As a young man, he saw how the public sided against the protesters at the 1968 Democratic
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