Lisa Boothe on National Guard Issue: What Trump Is Doing Is Saving People in the Inner Cities, It’s Not Racist

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BOOTHE: “But yeah, what is racist is defunding the police so more black people are murdered in the inner city. What President Trump is trying to do is to save them, is to save people in these inner cities. That’s not racist, that's lifesaving. That’s being a warrior for them. I will say Washington D.C., I do think the scenario is a little bit different than in Chicago, because if you look at Washington, D.C., the Constitution grants Congress the authority over the city. The president has the authority over the Home Rule Act to lead the Metropolitan Police, the D.C. Police there, and he also has the distinct job of being in control of the D.C. National Guard. Now, if you get into some of these other cities, I don’t know, it’s a little bit more legally dubious, right, it gets to be a little — I know there’s been calls for the president to enact or to invoke the Insurrection Act, like Senator Tom Cotton asked him to do it during the George Floyd riots, but you can argue there was a rebellion or an insurrection happening at the time because cities were being burned down, police officers were being beat up. Like, in that case, that makes sense. So now, I don’t know, I mean, I know he sent in the National Guard in to help some of these ICE agents, which would make sense because they're just more in a facilitating role. So I think it depends how he does this, what’s the legal justification for it. So, I don’t know. What he is doing in D.C., I fully support and it's working, enforcing the law, there's been zero murders in over a week. Elsewhere, I would just like to hear the reasoning."