When they rip down Portland, when they rip down many other cities, you go to Minnesota, Minneapolis, what they've done there with the fires all over the city. If I didn't bring in the National Guard, [Minneapolis] would have been destroyed. When you look at all of the, they took over big chunks of Seattle. I was all set to bring in the National Guard. They heard that, they saw them coming and they left immediately. (42:51–42:56)
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Asserts that deploying the National Guard prevented the destruction of Minneapolis.
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