My response to the claim that President Trump has no right to step in and protect Americans from crime:
The federal government, under our Constitution, is charged with upholding the individual rights of Americans. If a state or local government violates the rights of Americans by deliberately not enforcing laws against theft, looting and violent crime, the federal government has every right (and obligation) to step in and protect citizens from the lawless local government, e.g. New York, Chicago, Portland OR, Seattle, San Francisco, L.A., etc. If not, then our Bill of Rights is null and void, and completely meaningless.
Keep in mind that New York City is on the verge of putting into office an open Communist and pro-Islamic terrorist. What do you think President Trump will be forced to do with him?
And as attorney Ed Mazlish pointed out to me on Facebook:
Article IV, Section 4 of the constitution required the Federal Government to guarantee each state a small republican form of government. When local and state officials unleash the anarcho-tyranny you described, the federal government is not merely authorized but required to step in and restore a republican form of government that protects the rights of citizens.
Furthermore, the president’s oath requires him to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic – while not an explicit grant of power, it implicitly requires the president to protect Americans from the kind of domestic criminals the Dems have unleashed in cities and states.
President Trump would be on firm ground using the National Guard to restore order in localities that have enacted lawlessness as a matter of policy.
None of this is about politics, or President Trump. It’s about upholding the individual rights of Americans against a domestic enemy — in this case, the mayors and governors of blue states utterly determined to destroy their citizens’ rights.