Thwarted by a court from deploying the Oregon National Guard to Portland, and facing a legal challenge to his gambit of flying in the California National Guard, President Donald Trump has turned to Texas.

The president is sending members of the Texas National Guard to Oregon, Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement late Sunday night. Kotek said the Oregon National Guard was alerted today that 400 of their counterparts in Texas would soon be deployed to Oregon, Illinois “and other locations throughout the United States.”

The deployment represents yet another escalation of Trump’s determination to place at least part of Portland under military control, and comes less than 24 hours after 200 members of the California National Guard touched down in Portland to crack down on what Trump has fals

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