THIS neo-nazi, fascist drippings NOT MY pres drumpf / trump, in another attempt to impose his authoritarian theocratic oligarchy on the United States, is threatening to send troops to Portland, Oregon because he claims Portland is in a state of war with the city government. This from a person ( I will not refer to him as a man, he isn't one ) who pardoned all his treasonous storm troopers who attacked the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. ( following his instructions) on 6 JAN 21. These traitors set up a scaffold with a noose on it and went searching for then NOT MY vp pence in the Capital, chanting 'Hang Mike Pence'. drumpf / trump and his pardoned treasonous fascist mob are also responsible for the deaths of 5 police officers and the injury of 174 police officers due to his insurrection. Nobody, police or civilians, have died from the protest in Portland, there have been injuries on both sides. Some extremist protestors set up a guillotine in Portland weeks ago, it is gone. The fact remains drumpf / trump refused to deploy D.C.'s National Guard or the US Military to defend the US Capital when it was being attacked on 6 JAN 21 but he can't wait to unleash what he hopes will be Sturmtruppen on the people of Portland. These are dangerous times, and we can only hope and pray the US Military leadership remembers they took an oath to our democratic Republic and not to NOT MY pres drumpf trump and not to NOT MY vp vance and not to neo-nazi fascist Sec of Defense petie lola hegseth. From NPR.....
UPDATE: Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals 25SEP25 & ( VIDEO ) Trump cabinet pick Pete Hegseth hit with new allegations of alcohol abuse and misconduct 3DEZ24 & Defense Department slammed for "cringe-worthy" Pete Hegseth meme 4MAI25
Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Ore., to handle 'domestic terrorists'
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for details on Trump's announcement, such as a timeline for the deployment or what troops would be involved.
At a Friday night news conference, Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley warned the public that Trump would try to create chaos. "Don't take the bait," he said.
"Our responsibility is to, yes, express our views. Yes, protest," Merkley said. "But best done at a distance from these federal troops, wherever they might be and whatever they are doing, because their goal is to create an engagement, an engagement that will lead to conflict."
Trump previously threatened to send the National Guard into Chicago but has yet to follow through. A deployment in Memphis, Tennessee, is expected soon and will include only about 150 troops, far less than were sent to the District of Columbia for Trump's crackdown on crime or in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests that turned violent with the troops' arrival. Trump also sent Marines to Los Angeles.
Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for information. Nor did the office of Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said Friday night that the city already was seeing a sudden surge in federal agents, describing armored vehicles and agents arriving on the streets.
"We did not ask for them to come," the Democratic mayor said. "They are here without clear precedent or purpose."
Portland, population 636,000, was the site of long-running and sometimes violent racial justice protests following George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police in 2020. The Trump administration sent hundreds of agents, including from the U.S. Border Patrol, for the stated purpose of protecting the federal courthouse and other federal property from vandalism.
Recent protests have been far more muted and focused on the area around the ICE building, located outside the city's downtown that was the heart of the 2020 protests. The building's main entrance and ground-floor windows have been boarded up and tagged with graffiti.
Some federal agents have been injured and several protesters have been charged with assault. Some demonstrators also say they've been injured. When protesters erected a guillotine earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security described it as "unhinged behavior."
Meantime, city groups and officials have sought to highlight the recovery of the downtown area since 2020.
This summer was reportedly the busiest for pedestrian traffic since before the coronavirus pandemic, and overall violent crime in Portland from January through June decreased by 17% this year compared to the same period in 2024, a recent report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association found. The downtown has seen a decrease in homeless tent encampments that defined the years immediately after the pandemic.
Since the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Trump has escalated his efforts to confront what he calls the "radical left," which he blames for the country's problems with political violence.
Trump, in comments Thursday in the Oval Office, suggested some kind of operation was in the works.
"We're going to get out there and we're going to do a pretty big number on those people in Portland," he said, describing them as "professional agitators and anarchists."
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