The crisis unfolding in Los Angeles isn't about immigration enforcement or civil unrest — it's about a president deliberately manufacturing confrontation to expand his authority.

President Trump's illegal deployment of Marines and threats against state officials represent a calculated strategy to bait opponents into escalating responses that justify even greater executive overreach. The real emergency isn't in California's streets; it's in the Oval Office, and it demands an immediate, coordinated response from every level of American government.

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Trump's plan in Los Angeles is becoming clear: violate the law brazenly, provoke pushback, then use that pushback to justify further lawlessness. His deployment of Marines without invoking the Insurrection Act violates the

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