Minneapolis isn't the first city that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have targeted for aggressive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids; cities ranging from Chicago to Los Angeles have been targeted as well. But Minneapolis has suffered the worst ICE violence, and the fatal shooting of unarmed motorist Renee Nicole Good by agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 continues to generate outrage.
Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the unrest in Minneapolis. And attorney Ty Cobb — who served as a White House lawyer in the first Trump Administration but is now a scathing critic of the president — warned that the tensions in Minneapolis could go from bad to worse if Trump does that.
During a Sunday, January 18 appearance on MS NOW, Cobb compared Trump's two administrations and argued that he is more dangerous now because of the "sycophants and enablers" encouraging his worst ideas.
Cobb explained, "I don't have any recollection of any discussion of the Insurrection Act in my time (with the first Trump Administration). But there were guardrails back then. There were people who could say 'no' to the president. And now, he's surrounded by sycophants and enablers and people who don't say no. I mean, it's just stunning the number of people that have signed on for what's going on in Minnesota and what's going on in Greenland — you know, things that would have never been tolerated in the first 250 years of our democracy."
The attorney continued, "But I do think he wants — desperately wants — to invoke the Insurrection Act. I think it's come upon him a little sooner than he and (White House senior adviser) Stephen Miller and others had planned. I think martial law is definitely in the cards. And it's a way that he'll be able to control the elections."
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