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Brian Tyler Cohen: “The argument could be made that [Trump] wants to inflame…”

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Mayor Karen Bass Discusses National Guard Deployment and Chaos in Los Angeles

Published | Video Starts at 02:49

Yeah. You have burning cars on the street. You have, you know, graffiti everywhere. You have vandalism that's happening, tires that are being slashed. Is that enough? But, I mean, The argument could be made that [Trump] wants to inflame those exact tensions, because the more we're seeing that, the less we're talking about his rift with Elon Musk, the less we're talking about the budget bill. Exactly. But what frightens all of us is what's the end game to that? Yeah. Well, do you have any concern that the end game might be the invocation of the Insurrection act, for example? (02:49–03:00)

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Suggests that Trump may want to inflame tensions to distract from other issues like his rift with Elon Musk and the budget bill.

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