“It’s anarchy out there,” Trump said last week in the Oval Office, days before announcing the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard for a period of 60 days.
The president is citing daily protests outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to justify the latest of his troop callups in a major city with a Democratic-led government.
“The Radical Left’s reign of terror in Portland ends now,” the White House said in a news release Tuesday announcing the deployment of federal troops to the Pacific Northwest city.
The Trump administration indicated it was sending in additional resources to “crush violent radical left terrorism.”
