‘Someone has paid them’: Donald Trump says that opposition to Los Angeles is being funded; Watch the video
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday made a bold claim that violent demonstrations in Los Angeles were being funded.Speaking to the reporters of the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said, “Somebody financed it. We are going to find out [Attorney General] Palm Bondi and Department of Justice which is this.,The President described unrest in Los Angeles as “peace on peace, on public system and national sovereignty and as a complete-hilt on national sovereignty” and said that people involved were not common citizens, but “rebels were paid.”Trump reiterated, “These are troubleshooters. They are agitators. They are paid.” Trump claimed that something so large would have been planned in the scale and resources during the protest.“Do you think a person walks to a curb and starts taking out the pieces, all the equipment are necessary and start handing it to people to use it as a weapon?” The Maga chief said.The statement after Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 American Marines on the streets of Los Angeles after the days of violent protests from federal immigration raids. The President said that military deployment was necessary to protect federal assets, while critics, including California governor Gavin Newsom and accused them of increasing tension.“This is general knowledge … when there is no danger they will leave. You would have a terrible situation until I sent them.” “You must be reporting about a lot of death and a lot of destruction.”However, California officials say the federal response has spoiled the situation. Mayor Karen Bass declared an emergency situation and imposed a curfew in the downtown LA, citing the loot and widespread property damage of 23 businesses.Newsom, who has taken legal action to block deployment, said, “Trump is changing the US Army against American citizens. The courts should immediately block these illegal functions.”When Trump claimed to talk with Newsom, he was asked to “do better”. The governor denied any such conversation, saying, “There was no call. Not even a sound mail.”Trump later accused Newsom of lying and showed a call log to Fox News, which made a 16 -minute call on 7 June, not on June 9 that he claimed that he had earlier claimed.Meanwhile, journalists covering protests have reported to be tear-gasons, shot with rubber bullets, or abbreviated. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanis condemned the treatment of reporter Lauren Tomasi, calling his experience “frightening”.Trump is allegedly using protests to promote his immigration bill in the Congress, in which the associate has described the moment as a political opportunity for rally support.
