Trump Is EXACTLY What the Insurrection Act Tried to STOP

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Washington D.C., Portland, and Chicago — a show of force that raises questions about presidential power and the limits of the law. Chris Cuomo examines how the Insurrection Act of 1807 and the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 were designed to separate military authority from civilian law enforcement, and why those boundaries matter now. Cuomo explains how these laws evolved to prevent political misuse of the military, why modern presidents have avoided invoking them, and how Trump’s approach tests that restraint. He argues that using military power as a political tool risks normalizing force where policy and persuasion should prevail — a shift that could alter the balance between authority and democracy in the United States." Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Support our sponsors: Save more than 50% on term life insurance. Go to http://selectquote.com/chrisc to get started. Go to https://www.drinkag1.com/CCP to get a FREE Frother with your first purchase of AGZ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if President Trump's sending the National Guard around the country isn't about fighting crime,
0:07.3	but it is a crime and it is about stopping you from the ability to fight back against the government?
0:29.1	I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo project. Look, you got to do this analysis slowly, and without being reactionary to just they suck their Nazis, they're fascists, your lefties,
0:35.0	you're radicals, you're violent. That is all for the fringe and for the algorithms and to trick them and to get your clicks.
0:44.6	Doesn't form consensus.
0:46.5	Doesn't connect to where the majority opinion is in this country.
0:49.4	And doesn't help us get to a better place.
0:52.2	But there is an analysis here.
0:55.9	Early on, I believed,
1:03.5	ooh, clever move by Trump. Presidents don't usually talk crime. Why? State issue. Not a lot of funding streams, not a lot of access. We don't have a lot of federal governance or presence
1:09.5	in crime fighting in states, right? State troopers usually is a lot of federal governance or presence in crime fighting in states, right?
1:13.6	State trooper is usually as high as you're going to see.
1:16.1	You know, it's the FBI guys driving around, okay?
1:18.8	So they don't usually touch it.
1:20.1	They talk about it, but they don't touch it.
1:22.5	He touched it.
1:23.7	He said, I'm going to fight crime all over this country.
1:25.8	And I'm going to bring in the National Guard.
1:27.4	Now, people were upset. Why? The law and the policy. it. He said, I'm going to fight crime all over this country. And I'm going to bring in the National Guard.
1:34.9	Now, people were upset. Why? The law and the policy. Why? Well, the policy, show me where it says that intimidation as a standalone is what has brought down crime all over the country, because
1:40.7	we have tons of examples of crime coming down and crime going up.
1:44.6	We know why it happens.
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