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Old 21-01-2021, 15:39   #7
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Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
Going to be interesting how Biden deals with this. Trump sent in the Natonal Guard.
The Capitol is Federal property and the authorities had lost control of it. However, even then it was the Virginia national guard that was the first to be activated, and that was at the request of Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, precisely because Trump delayed authorising the deployment of the DC National Guard (the only Guard directly under presidential control). Virginia is presently controlled by a Democrat governor.

The unrest in Portland isn't comparable in this respect with what happened in DC, and any attempt to use it to contrast Trump and Biden, or tactics dealing with left versus right wing protests, is entirely spurious. This will be dealt with by civilian police, as you would expect in any democracy with a civilian government, unless and until it gets beyond their ability to control.
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