Trump threatens to send troops into cities to end violent protests

President Trump said he was prepared to send troops to states if governors failed to quell a growing wave of violent protests as he condemned rioters for acts of “domestic terror.”

“A police precinct has been overrun. Here in the nation’s capitol the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial have been vandalized,” he said during an evening address in the White House Rose Garden on Monday. “One of our most historic churches was set ablaze, a federal officer in California and an African American enforcement hero was shot and killed.