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Donald Trump: “If we didn't do it, there wouldn't be a Los Angeles. It…”

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Trump and Abbott Respond to Nationwide Immigration Protests with Military Deployments

Published | Video Starts at 04:07

… hundreds of Marines to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob and some of the radical left. They say, oh, that's not nice. Well, If we didn't do it, there wouldn't be a Los Angeles. It would be burning today, just like their houses were burning a number of months ago. Generations of army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and Third World lawlessness here at home like is happening in California. (04:07–04:14)

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Asserts that without military deployment, Los Angeles would be burning.

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