{"id":2531446,"date":"2026-01-08T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-must-send-the-troops-to-mn-or-risk-losing-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:57:38","slug":"trump-must-send-the-troops-to-mn-or-risk-losing-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-must-send-the-troops-to-mn-or-risk-losing-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Must Send The Troops To MN Or Risk Losing The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-must-send-the-troops-to-mn-or-risk-losing-the-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2531446&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>an opinion piece in The Federalist by Jordan Boyd describes the January 7, 2026 shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis-an incident the author says appears on video to show Good allegedly attempting to hit an agent with her vehicle and being shot after making contact. The article recounts immediate unrest around ICE operations, reports of confrontations between demonstrators and federal agents, and Minneapolis Public Schools canceling classes for safety.Drawing on the 2020 riots and their costly aftermath, Boyd argues that federal authorities must act swiftly and forcefully-urging former President trump to deploy troops, use the Insurrection Act if necessary, and pursue full prosecution of anyone who attacks officers or damages cities. The piece criticizes local Democratic leaders, including Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz, for what the author portrays as inconsistent or insufficient responses and accuses activist groups of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >stoking anti-federal sentiment<\/a>. the article frames the incident as a flashpoint that, if not met with strong federal action, could lead to widespread violence and destruction similar to 2020.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Minneapolis might burn, again. <\/p>\n<p>The spark threatening to ignite another round of flames, less than six years after parts of the Minnesota city were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/authorities-id-man-found-dead-in-minneapolis-pawn-shop-burned-in-riots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduced to ashes<\/a> in 2020, flew on Wednesday, January 7 when a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer after she allegedly attempted to run over him with her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage appears to show Renee Nicole Good <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/megbasham\/status\/2009038707815587928?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicksortor\/status\/2008973759097733306?s=42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contact<\/a> with one agent as she ignored the calls of two other federal officers telling her to get out of the car. The contact prompted him to fire off three shots, with at at least one of the bullets <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/2008996934229651488?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">striking through Good&rsquo;s front windshield.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fallout was fast and fierce. Less than 24 hours after the shooting, agitators who had spent the morning hovering over ICE operations, were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disclosetv\/status\/2008996387422392657?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-releases-10-videos-showing-most-egregious-attacks-on-capitol-police-officers\/\" title=\"FBI Releases 10 Videos Showing \u2018Most Egregious\u2019 Attacks On Capitol Pol...s\">assaulting law enforcement<\/a><\/a> with projectiles and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/remarks\/status\/2008999090361958498?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grabbing at federal agents&rsquo; weapons<\/a>. Fears of a larger, more violent response mounted on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Minneapolis unrest erupts as law enforcement respond to ongoing protests over an ICE-involved shooting after an alleged attempted attack on officers. | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericaNewsroom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmericaNewsroom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/adztOH5gfe\">pic.twitter.com\/adztOH5gfe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/2009279469203116184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Minneapolis Public Schools even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/ice-in-minnesota\/minneapolis-public-schools-cancel-classes-ice\/89-557401a0-7b22-4eef-bb90-97cfab57bd6b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canceled classes<\/a> for the rest of the week due to &ldquo;safety concerns,&rdquo; a schedule change that will no doubt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/2009283828330705141?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free up<\/a> more Minneapolitans to join the impending chaos. <\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/03\/opinion\/tom-cotton-protests-military.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2020 op-ed<\/a> that sent the New York Times newsroom into a spiral, Sen. Tom Cotton urged Trump to &ldquo;send in the troops&rdquo; and invoke the Insurrection Act to send in the military to the riot-plagued cities and states that refused to enforce the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won&#039;t Enforce COVID Curfew\">law-abiding citizens<\/a> but will also take more innocent lives,&rdquo; Cotton wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>Yet, it wasn&rsquo;t until July, more than a month after George Floyd&rsquo;s death and Cotton&rsquo;s concerns were begrudgingly published, that the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/portland-protest-us-crackdown-anti-racism-1.5655893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finally deployed law enforcement<\/a> to the cities rioters ravaged. Even then, Trump spent the following weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1299520405871316992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1299520405871316992%7Ctwgr%5E26d692685fab30bec3773172f3c968b2166df259%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fportland-mayor-wheeler-sends-open-letter-to-trump-no-thanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly threatening to intervene<\/a> in Antifa-overrun Portland if Mayor Ted Wheeler failed to &ldquo;get control of his city and stop the Anarchists, Agitators, Rioters and Looters, causing great danger to innocent people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By the time a federal crackdown on the summer of rage commenced, the physical damages total reached the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/09\/16\/george-floyd-riot-damage-could-cost-insurance-companies-upwards-of-2-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions<\/a>, and the cultural consequences were too great to count.<\/p>\n<p>The country and president&rsquo;s tolerance for left-wing lawlessness, after enduring years of violence, rowdy riots, hoaxes, lawfare, and assassination attempts, should be at all-time low. The only way to protect those Americans and the land they love from further rioting, looting, vandalism, and burning is to stop it before it starts. <\/p>\n<p>There is no time this time around for Trump to hem and haw around defiant Democrats, many like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who spent the day of the car ramming <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/07\/walz-and-frey-should-be-arrested-for-inciting-2020-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inciting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/07\/dems-react-to-minneapolis-car-ramming-by-inciting-more-anti-ice-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even more violence<\/a> against ICE instead of demanding order and peace.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the agitation machine is in motion. The same day Good was shot, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andrewkolvet\/status\/2009007739163533820?s=12&amp;t=ymBBBF91jmvr_JmBodw1Ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a> to deploy the Minnesota National Guard against ICE, a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/08\/top-democrats-are-agitating-for-insurrection-and-political-vigilantism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">literal act of anti-federal insurrection<\/a>, under the guise of &ldquo;protecting&rdquo; Gopher State residents. In contrast, Walz <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cernovich\/status\/2009041195717284106?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> in 2020 to invite the help of his state&rsquo;s national guard, which he claimed consisted of &ldquo;19 year-old cooks,&rdquo; with the ongoing Floyd fallout Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump does not act swiftly and forcefully, there is nothing stopping the same politicians, dark money groups, Big Tech companies, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/27\/target-honors-violent-minneapolis-riots-with-mural-of-burning-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">big box<\/a> corporations that endorsed, funded, and bailed out 2020 criminals over the actions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-pledges-orderly-transition-of-power\/\" title=\"President ... pledges orderly transition of power\">local law enforcement<\/a> from doing the same thing mere days into 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The communists who spent the last few days interfering in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cities-offering-sanctuary-deny-it-to-their-own-residents\/\" title=\"Cities Offering \u2018Sanctuary\u2019 Deny It To Their Own Residents\">federal law enforcement operations<\/a> and threatening the safety of ICE agents <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/2009086383076593716?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;have to be crushed, not coddled.&rdquo;<\/a> Failure to do so only opens the door for a mockery of rule of law &mdash; and Trump personally. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/115855701696773990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted to Truth Social<\/a> after reviewing clips of the attack on ICE on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Standing behind and protecting those boots already in the ground in Minnesota means sending in the troops to quell further violence against officers. It also means prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law anyone who attacks those officers or engages in the criminal desecration and destruction of American cities. <\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s too late for Trump to undo the damage that radical violent leftists did to our country in 2020. He does, however, have the opportunity from doing it again in 2026. He just has to take it. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of &ldquo;The Federalist Radio Hour.&rdquo; Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis may erupt again after ICE shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2531447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/55027625476_398ed7ad6d_k-e1767848267405.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32319,60846,41549,5698,50611],"class_list":["post-2531446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-troops","tag-military-deployment","tag-minnesota","tag-national-security-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/55027625476_398ed7ad6d_k-e1767848267405.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531451,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531446\/revisions\/2531451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}