SEATTLE — Seattle and Washington leaders say they’re preparing for the city to be the next target of President Donald Trump’s escalating orders deploying troops to Democratic-led cities.

Slamming Trump’s weekend announcement he’ll send troops to Portland with authorization to use “full force, if necessary,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and state Attorney General Nick Brown said at a Monday news conference they’re readying legal challenges and other steps if Seattle becomes the next target.

Harrell urged Trump to not send troops to the city, saying there is no crisis that justifies putting “armored vehicles, semi-automatic weapons” and military personnel on the streets.

“There is not an insurrection here,” Harrell said, saying Trump’s heavy-handed crackdown on U.S. cities “only serves to

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