Trump said he wanted to protect federal immigration facilities against “domestic terrorists”, and authorised the troops to use “full force, if necessary.”
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek speaks in Portland after the deployment of troops to the city. (Picture: Claire Rush/AP)
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, responding to Trump’s order, said: “The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city. The president will not find lawlessness or violence here unless he plans to perpetrate it.”
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, a Democrat, said her office was asking the White House for more information.
The Pentagon did not offer any clarification about whether Trump was deploying National Guard, active duty troops or perhaps a mix of the two, as was the case in Los Angeles earlier this year.
“We’re not going to put up with it. This administration is not playing games,” she said in an interview on Fox News.
On Thursday, Trump told reporters that “crazy people” were trying to burn buildings in Portland. “They’re professional agitators and anarchists,” he said, without providing evidence.
Trump first sought to designate the movement as a domestic terror organisation during the nationwide George Floyd protests.
Reinoehl was then killed by federal and local law enforcement officers during an attempt to arrest him.
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