National Guard Heads to Portland: Trump is deploying two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard to “war ravaged” Portland to “protect” immigration enforcement officers and government buildings from largely peaceful protesters. A memo from the newly-Christened “Department of War” said the deployment would last 60 days, and compared it to the federal intervention in Los Angeles in June. But unlike in LA, where 700 active-duty Marines patrolled the streets for a month, it does not appear that Trump or Hegseth are currently sending active-duty troops to the state. Oregon’s Attorney General has already sued.
Why Is Trump Obsessed with Portland: Theoretically, he’s doing this because protesters have been giving a local ICE facility an earful for months now. And because of that, Trump had