PORTLAND — As protests and riots over George Floyd’s murder rocked cities across the country in the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump sent federal law enforcement officers to Portland to quell large nightly demonstrations at the city’s federal courthouse.

Now, five years later, the chaotic and sometimes violent upheaval in Portland and the subsequent clashes between protesters and the federal authorities that followed the deployment in 2020 have become an unflattering part of Portland’s public image, one that many residents are eager to erase.

But for Trump, those weeks appear to have provided a playbook, which he is now following as he moves to send National Guard forces to cities that he argues are out of control. And for many people who lived through that trying time in Portland,

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