Trump: ‘We’ll See’ If Insurrection Act Needed for LA Riots

President Donald Trump, hoping to restore “safety” to riot-hit Los Angeles, demurred on invoking the Insurrection Act to go full force with the U.S. military, but said, “We’ll see what happens.”

“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it: We’ll see,” Trump said in an Oval Office question-and-answer session with the media. “But I can tell you last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible.

“We have, as you’ve seen, it was on most of your networks, people with big heavy hammers pounding the concrete and pounding curbs, pounding and breaking up and handing these big chunks of concrete to people.

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