It’s hard to know how serious President Donald Trump is about the possibility of sending National Guard troops to Portland to confront protesters and “ wipe them out .”

This is a man for whom bluster is like breathing. Many of his musings, threats and diatribes dissolve days after they were uttered. As pundits have noted, the man who penned “The Art of the Deal” has mastered the Art of Distraction , with one outrageous comment after another.

At the same time, it would be foolish to ignore the threat, considering the ruthlessness of his administration’s actions and Trump’s willingness to bulldoze laws and limits that stand in his way. Trump dispatched thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June –an alarming move that a federal judge has since ruled illegal . But that r

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