WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that National Guard members will leave Los Angeles “when there’s no danger” — before blasting California Gov. Gavin Newsom repeatedly for allowing violent anti-ICE riots to get out of hand.
“When there’s no danger, they’ll leave,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“You would have had a horrible situation had I not sent them and horrible — you’d be reporting on a lot of death and a lot of destruction that’s not going to take place. I think if you look every night, it got less and less. They were met with very strong force, the bad people, the bad sick people that do what they do.”
Trump said he spoke to Newsom on the phone “a day ago” and told him to “do a better job” with his state.
Since Saturday, the president has authorized a total of 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to counter the unrest that began Friday in response to immigration raids across America’s second-largest city.
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