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Mayors and Governors have, within their many duties that pertain to their specific area of responsibility, the duty to decide when and if federal or National Guard should be brought in to assist local law enforcement agencies.

Then, as events progress or digress, Mayors and Governors have thorough knowledge of their own domains, and are well-equipped to assess the levels of law enforcement needed to protect the lives of properties of their constituents.

Later on, those local and state officials will stand accountable to their citizens when election time rolls around.

Bottom line: Trump should send federal security personnel only when requested to do so.

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I can't speak for Chicago, but the protesters in Portland are indeed mostly peaceful. The violence is confined to certain areas, at certain times of the day, and done by certain people such as the Youth Liberation Front. That Portland Police hasn't sufficiently arrested and subdued those folks after all these days is the chief's and mayor's failure.

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I can't hardly stand to watch any news group now. Even the weather is slightly biased!

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Erick, the radical left, the cultural left, the cocktail party left, the media (most it seems), and the bunch f/k/a The Democrat Party, are marching to the beat of a drummer uninterested in the truth or the facts.

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Come on Erick. You've always been a Never Trumper. Hypocrite now?

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I admire your ability to stress the truth, even to be critical of the President and many of the sycophants, yet you also possess the ability to enunciate reality. I believe this kind of balance has only one source whom we both worship.

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One might even consider calling the media "Fake News." But since Trump said that, it is like the apparent benefits of Hydroxychloroquine, which in the minds of Trump critics inflicted with TDS can't even be considered. The media is about as interested in the truth as the majority of the Pharisee's were. But we can always hope that some media sources will eventually find the light of truth, just as Nicodemus found it and the light of truth found the Apostle Paul.

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