Former deputy federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy doubled up on Wednesday in an opinion piece urging President Trump to enforce federal law.
“The Constitution says so,” said the Fox News contributor. “Overtime outnumbered.”
McCarthy said Trump’s job under Article II of the Constitution is “to see that the laws are faithfully executed.”
“That is his main job. Basically we miss this a lot because now we have a federal government that has much more than the creators imagined it would. But the president’s job is two main things: one is to enforce the laws and the other, closely related, is national security, ”McCarthy said.
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McCarthy’s comments came after he published an opinion piece explaining why “it is Trump’s constitutional duty to enforce federal law and he should do it,” defending the commander in deploying the federal police chief in Portland.
McCarthy wrote in the opinion piece: “The Constitution says that the President will fulfill this obligation. We are not talking about an option or something that he can do or not do as he sees fit. It is a solemn duty. It is what the boss is executive is all about. “
Portland has been hit by riots and protests for 55 days in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. This month, in response to ongoing violence against federal property and monuments, DHS rolled out federal law enforcement in the city.
McCarthy said Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, is participating in a “terrible political demagoguery” for rejecting Trump’s deployment of federal forces to address the Portland riots.
McCarthy reacted to Wyden’s tweet saying: “My constituents don’t want the best wishes of the Trump administration. They want me to stop trampling on their constitutional rights.”
“When the Democrats are in charge, when they run the administration, what they tell us is that the government is the only thing we all do together, the government is a wonderful thing, the idea that you just sit there while people commit arson and Vandalism against government facilities and sitting idle while people use force against people who are federal agents would be intolerable, “McCarthy said.
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McCarthy added that since Democrats want to compete against Trump as a “Nazi dictator,” they are calling federal agents “troops and a militia.”
“They are federal law enforcement officers and they are always in our big cities.”
