A top adviser to President Donald Trump used an Alabama city as a hypothetical example of how National Guardsmen would be received if they were deployed in red areas.

“When I hear comments from Democrat officials saying that this violence from the left is being ‘provoked’ – their word – by the presence of federal officials. Think about how broken of a sentence that is, right?" Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, told reporters Monday afternoon.

Miller was responding to a question about the National Guard being deployed to several cities across the country when he brought up a predominantly Republican, southeast Alabama city.

“In other words, if tomorrow we went to, say, Dothan, Alabama, and there was a federal building there, and we put 100 police officers in front

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