President Donald Trump said he would send the U.S. Marines and other branches of the military into American cities “in a heartbeat” if he believed it was necessary, asserting that he has the full legal authority to do so under the Insurrection Act, but has so far chosen restraint.
“If you had to send in the Army or if you had to send in the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat,” Trump said in a Nov. 2 appearance on CBS News’s “60 Minutes.” He was responding to a question about what he meant when he told troops at a naval base in Japan last week that he would be willing to send “more than the National Guard” to U.S. cities if needed.
