Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order

“Responding to interest from President Donald Trump, White House aides drafted a proclamation last year to invoke the Insurrection Act in case Mr. Trump moved to take the extraordinary step of deploying active-duty troops in Washington to quell the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd,” the New York Times reports,

Trump denied that he had wanted to deploy troops in a statement: “It’s absolutely not true and if it was true, I would have done it.”