"The View" Host Claims Trump Is "Militarizing" National Guard, And "Civil War" Is Coming

�The View� host Sunny Hostin claimed during a Monday broadcast that President
Donald Trump was �militarizing� the U.S. Army National Guard when he deployed
troops to quell the violent protests in Los Angeles, arguing that by doing
so, he would ultimately set the stage for a �civil war.�

Hostin discussed the ongoing protests in Los Angeles � as well as the Trump
administration�s efforts to protect federal agents as the protests got more
and more violent � with her fellow cohosts on the ABC midday talk show, and
they complained that Trump�s plan to deport criminal illegal aliens was the
real problem.

�The Defense Department has the U.S. Marines on high alert right now,� cohost
Whoopi Goldberg began in mocking tones. �Now, you know, is it warranted or
does this sort of escalate the situation? I mean, whatever happened to
state�s rights?�

�I thought that what�s you do, �cause you tell the state that this is what
you�re thinking, you know, you don�t just send people in, you don�t just send
troops in,� Goldberg claimed. �But what do I know, I�ve never run a state?
But I don�t really � when you come in and everyone is � when you go into the
doughnut shop to look for people and you�re dressed in tactical gear, you�re
creating an issue. You�re creating a problem.�

Sunny Hostin decries Trump �militarizing� the National Guard and
claims he�s going to have them start a �Civil War.�
Ignoring the riots and violence, she claims the Guard is there �for
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Hostin jumped in then, claiming that Trump was �militarizing� the National
Guard � despite its existence as a state-based military force since 1636 and
being attached to the United States Army officially in 1933 � by sending
troops to keep the peace after protesters attacked ICE agents and their
vehicles.

�I think what really matters from sort of a long view here is the fact that
he is militarizing and deploying the Guard for the purpose of policing
Americans� protest activity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of assembly,�
Hostin insisted, suggesting that the National Guard had been brought in to
silence the protesters rather than to keep them from damaging more property
and hurting people.

Hostin went on to argue that �an army turned inside� to police the citizens
within the country would ultimately result in �chaos and fascism.�

�And civil war,� she agreed as Goldberg prompted her. �I think that�s the way
we need to look at it because deploying the National Guard is supposed to be
a last resort.�

Hostin then claimed that Trump had promised to deploy the National Guard
anywhere in the country that protests occurred. What Trump has actually said,
on a number of occasions, was that the federal government would step in and
shut down violent riots if and when it became apparent that local authorities
� in this case, Mayor Karen Bass (D-LA) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) �
were either unable or unwilling to do so.