This past Saturday, Gov. Tina Kotek tried to dissuade President Donald Trump from launching a military mission into Portland based on a perception of the city that, by his own account, had been informed by a television segment.

In a press conference staged on the banks of the Willamette River, Kotek recalled telling Trump that his impression did not reflect the reality on the ground. “He thinks there are elements here that are creating an insurrection,” Kotek said, referring to the nightly protests 2 miles south at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. “I told him there is no insurrection here, and that we have this under control.”

She was not the only Oregonian making such a case to outsiders. Feet away from the press scrum, Michael Wenger and his husband, Jeff Faustman

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