Gov. Tina Kotek says she spoke to President Donald Trump midday Saturday “as one executive to another,” and told him there was no reason to carry out the plan he announced hours prior to send U.S. troops to protect Portland and its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

“My conversation with President Trump was trying to understand his rationale,” she recalled of the conversation, “and I believe it is based on information that is not accurate today. There are protests here. But it is not what we saw during the pandemic, where we had significant violent protests. I told him that. He thinks there are elements here that are creating an insurrection. I told him there is no insurrection here, and that we have this under control.”

Trump, she said, responded, “Let’s keep talking.”

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