President Donald Trump has publicly voiced his support for the arrest of a sitting state governor.
Speaking to reporters at the White House Monday, the president responded to a question from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy regarding the ongoing back-and-forth between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan.
"Gavin Newsom is daring Tom Homan to come and arrest him," Doocy asked Trump in the video captured by CNN cameras.
"Should he do it?" Trump endorsed the idea, responding, "I would do it if I were Tom."
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Organizers of the protests are calling for June 14 to be a "nationwide day of defiance.
"From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we're taking action to reject authoritarianism"and show the world what democracy really looks like," organizers say on the "No Kings" website.
"We're not gathering to feed his ego. We're building a movement that leaves him behind. The flag doesn't belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. We're not watching history happen. We're making it."
They add that protesters will be "showing up everywhere he isn't"to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings."
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