Trump’s memo referred to the protests as a “form of rebellion.” By invoking the same clause Lyndon B. Johnson once used in 1965 to protect civil rights protesters in Alabama, Trump flipped the script: this time, troops weren’t defending dissent—they were suppressing it.
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