President Donald Trump today said he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to send troops to Portland, Ore., and to protect federal immigration facilities against “domestic terrorists,” saying he was authorizing them to use “full force, if necessary.”

Ordering the latest crackdown on a Democrat-led city, Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.”

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.”

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