Trump deployment of troops to quell LA rioters latest page in president's political playbook

President Donald Trump is defending his muscular and controversial moves to tame unrest in the nation's second most populous city.

"If I didn’t "SEND IN THE TROOPS" to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now," the president argued Tuesday in a social media post.

Aiming to extinguish escalating protests in Los Angeles sparked by immigration raids carried out by ICE at his administration's direction, Trump sent in National Guard troops and even mobilized Marines.

Trump broke six decades of precedent by federalizing California's National Guard without the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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