Trump says he will send troops to Portland, Oregon : NPR
President Trump arrives at the White House Friday. On Saturday, he said that he would send troops to Portland, Ore.
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Washington – President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would send troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing all the strength, if necessary” to manage “domestic terrorists” while he widens his controversial deployments in more American cities.
He made this announcement on social networks, writing that he ordered the Ministry of Defense to “provide all the troops necessary to protect the Ravae Portland war”.
Trump said the decision was necessary to protect American immigration and customs application, which he described as “besieged against antifa attack, and other domestic terrorists”.
Since the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the republican president has intensified his efforts to face what he calls the “radical left”, which he blame for the problems of the country with political violence.
He deployed the National Guard and the Marines in active service in Los Angeles during the summer and in the context of his takeover of the police in the District of Columbia.
The installation of ice in Portland was the target of frequent demonstrations, sometimes leading to violent clashes. Some federal agents were injured and several demonstrators were accused of assault. When the demonstrators erected a guillotine earlier this month, the Ministry of Internal Security described it as a “disarticulated behavior”.
Trump, in the comments Thursday at the Oval Office, suggested that a kind of operation was in preparation.
“We are going to get out and we are going to do a large number of these people from Portland,” he said, describing them as “professional agitators and anarchists”.
Earlier in September, Trump had described to live in Portland as “like living in hell” and said he was planning to send federal troops because he recently threatened to fight crime in other cities, including Chicago and Baltimore.
“Like other mayors across the country, I did not ask – and I do not need – federal intervention,” said the mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, in a statement after Trump’s threat. Wilson said his city had protected freedom of expression while “attacking occasional violence and the destruction of goods”.
In Tennessee, Memphis is preparing for an influx of troops from the National Guard and, Friday, the Republican Governor Bill Lee said they would be a wave of resources to fight crime in the city.
