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I'm sure Trump could have come up with reason BLM protesters were doing something illegal, and needed to shut down their bank accounts.

• klyrs 5y ago
  BLM protests happened in a completely different legal jurisdiction. Trump couldn't invoke the Emergencies Act, because that's a Canadian law.
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  • thesz 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Canad... There were BLM protests in Canada.
    • klyrs 5y ago
      Trump wasn't the president of Canada, was he?
      • swader999 5y ago
        No, he's the USA president.
  • hindsightbias 5y ago
    There was talk about the Insurrection Act. Ties to the Civil War probably made them a little weak in the knees.
    • klyrs 5y ago
      Okay? There was talk about a law in the US that didn't get exercised. Facts and weasel words acknowledged. So what? I really don't understand why people insist on re-litigating the BLM riots, focused on what the American government did or did not do. This is a story about protests going down in Canada, and how the Canadian government is responding to them. The only connection is the huge infusion of American money into this Canadian protest, but instead, folks are doing whataboutism donuts on BLM's lawn. It doesn't apply here. Why are people doing this.
    • rootusrootus 5y ago
      Pretty hilarious how that turned out in the end.