Karen Bass Suffers Meltdown Over Trump ‘Invading’ L.A.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Donald Trump “invaded last June with federal troops for no reason at all to intimidate a whole sector of our population, Latino immigrants.”

Bass said she was “horrified that the president would basically say that another country is perfectly fine to take out or to attack our city and our sister city two hours away.” She said the role of the president is to protect and defend the American people.

“He went to war with Iran, and he basically said, it’s okay, that it’s a small price to pay to attack 3.8 million people in the nation’s second largest city,” she said. “I was horrified by those comments.”

She then tied those remarks to last year’s federal deployment. “But then again, we are the city that he invaded last June with federal troops for no reason at all to intimidate a whole sector of our population, Latino immigrants.”

Bass said the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops was meant to get the public used to military intervention in cities. “I think that when our city was invaded by the Marines and and 4000 National Guard troops for no reason at all, that that’s all part of the plan to get the U.S. public to acclimate to military intervention in our cities,” she said.

“I said from day one, I thought L.A. was an experiment and this was going to spread around the country. We saw that that was the case,” she added. “Now, maybe the next time it happens, Americans won’t be so outraged because they’ve seen so many cities have federal intervention from the military. It’s a misuse of the military and irresponsible words.”