Isn't @rainman from Portland?
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President Trump said he was directing the Pentagon to send troops to Portland, Ore., to protect federal facilities, escalating his push to deploy the military in U.S. cities.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Saturday he was ordering Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use the military to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were “under siege from attack by antifa,” a loose network of antifascist protesters that Trump recently called a terror group.
“I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary,” Trump wrote, apparently referring to troops’ authority to use weapons.
The announcement was the latest move by Trump to push the boundaries of domestic use of troops, which has triggered fierce legal debate over the armed forces expanding footprint at home. Trump is also using military bases for migrant detention centers and has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and on the southern U.S. border.
It wasn’t clear whether Trump was calling for sending National Guard troops or active duty forces to Portland. Their mission, he said, was to “protect War Ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities.”
