Residents poured into the streets demanding answers, but what they got instead was a military response — ordered directly by Donald Trump.

Over the weekend, the former president deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area. And when the situation didn’t cool down? He doubled down.

By Monday night (June 9), another 2,000 troops had been sent in. And if that wasn’t enough, the Pentagon added 700 U.S. Marines into the mix.

But Trump wasn’t done.

“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We’ll see,” he warned during a press briefing on Tuesday.

Used before

He’s referring to the Insurrection Act of 1807, a rarely used but powerful law that allows presidents to send active-duty military into American cities to