Triumphs that the double standard in the protests of the could not be more evident

Washington – President Donald Trump warns those who protest against their unprecedented immigration repression in Los Angeles against police officers and thousands of national guard troops who have deployed there, promising to demand a compensation on anyone who commits violence against them.

“No one is going to spit our police officers. No one is going to spit our military,” Trump told journalists on Monday, before publishing on his social media website: “If they spit, we will hit, and I promise you that they will be more affected than they have been beaten before.

But Trump felt different about the violence against the application of the law when he issued general pardons earlier this year for hundreds of people who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 in an effort to keep it in office after his loss before Joe Biden in the presidential elections of 2020. Their pardons included those convicted of assaulting or interfering with the police officers, approximately approximately police officers. 1,000 non -violent criminals and around 200 people accused of assaulting the police. According to reports, several of the forgiven have been since reacted For other alleged crimes.

“These are hostages. Approximately 1,500 were forgiven. Full brown,” Trump, Trump saying After issuing the pardons on their first day in office.

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Some 140 police officers were injured in the attack on the Capitol, something that Trump has called a “beautiful day” despite being accused of the United States house for inciting an insurrection by spreading lies about electoral fraud.

“His hypocrisy hits you on the face,” Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) Who investigated Capitol’s attack as former chamber member, in response to Trump’s response to Trump’s response to the disturbances of the. “Violence is never appropriate. It was not appropriate on January 6 and is not appropriate in Los Angeles or anywhere else. We need to be consistent in this regard.”

Trump quickly deployed thousands of troops in California during the weekend, including 700 American marines, although there is no request from the state governor, Gavin Newsom, who warned that the actions of the president will further inflame the disturbances. The protests initially began after immigration and customs compliance agents executed raids at an Home Depot store in Los Angeles In the address of the White House.

However, as president on January 6, 2021, Trump did not issue any order or formal request of the National Guard troops to help the besieged police of the United States Capitol that were invaded by hundreds of their supporters.

“On January 6, both the Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress asked Donald Trump to make a statement, to cancel the Maga mafia that invaded the Capitol,” said representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) News themezone. “People asked him to call the National Guard, and he sat there and did nothing, and now he is acting in a situation in which the officials in charge tell him to federalize the National Guard and send to the Marines will only exacerbate a situation that is under control.”

The representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), The speaker of the Chamber at the time of the attack on the Capitol, also criticized Trump for federalizing the National Guard and sending troops to Los Angeles, something that he refused to do when Congress was under attack.

“We beg the president of the United States to send to the National Guard. I wouldn’t,” Pelosi said Reporters on Tuesday. “And, nevertheless, in a contraconstitutional way, he has sent the National Guard to California. Something is very bad with this image.”

Although the Democrats have criticized Trump’s response to protests, Republicans widely host federal intervention in California, even those who have long defended the importance of the rights of states and the ability of local governments to enforce their laws. In 2024, for example, a group of 24 conservative Republicans of the Chamber warned the then president Joe Biden that not the Federal National Guard of Texas, since some Texas Democratic legislators had been urging him to do, to do, to do, saying It would be an “invasion of constitutionally protected sovereignty of Texas.”

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TOSked on Tuesday if Trump is being inconsistent by sending troops to Los Angeles after forgiving January 6, meanwhile, the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (RS.D.) dodged the question completely.

“The problem in front of us is chaos in Los Angeles. Political leadership was not up to the task,” he said at his weekly press conference.

Senator Thom Tillis (Rn.C.), who does not agree publicly with Trump’s forgives from the uproar of January 6, said the Democrats are not consistent in the subject by not condemning violence in Los Angeles.

“I think that the Democrats who feel that the president is wrong when he took the force in a firmer land if they denounce the actions of violence in Los Angeles, Kenosha and Portland,” he said, without specifying which Democrats have refused to speak.

Even Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), A libertarian voice in the Senate, suggested that Trump had the right to federalize the National Guard and send troops to California without the approval of the state governor.

“The Democrats have not been able to have laws and order,” Paul said. “I have always preferred the application of the local law to the federal law, but this is a time when it seems that the state government is resisting enforcing the federal law.”

It is not clear to which federal law the senator refers. Newsom has also condemned violent protesters and urged protesters to remain peaceful.

“The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles, not because there is a police scarcity, but because they want a show,” said Newsom on Sunday.

“Don’t give them one. Never use violence. Speak peacefully,” he added.

Arthur Delaney contributed reports.