Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland | Donald Trump

Donald Trump, in his statement to journalists on Friday, apparently, a TV report that offers a video recorded during a protest in 2020, a TV report recorded in the city this summer, said the national guard troops can be sent to Oregon because it was misleaded about the scale of small protests outside the immigration detention facility.

“I will say this, I watched today, I didn’t know you continued to continue, but Portland is incredible, what’s going on?” Trump said. Later, he claimed that “the destruction of the city” saw the video evidence.

In fact, a handful of protesters showed outside the southern coast of this year, except for an immigration and customs enforcement facility in a remote area of ​​Portland, but the most dozens of protests, the protest scale, does not resemble the 2020 protests following the killing of George Floyd regularly to the police killed for more than two months.

Are you going to Portland? A reporter asked Trump.

“Well, I’m going to look at it now because I didn’t know it was still going on. This has been going on for years,” the president replied. Later, he explained how he was completely misleading his wrong belief that large -scale protests continued from 2020 onwards.

“We will be able to stop it very easily, but it wasn’t on my list, Portland, but this continues when I watched TV last night,” Trump said.

“Like other mayors in the country, I didn’t want to intervene and I don’t need -” said Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said on Friday. “We are proud to have successfully protected the freedom of expression while addressing the violence and property destruction during the protests in the ice facility in Portland.

The president did not refer to the special news report on which he was based on his impression, but Fox News Publications a report Mixed images of a recent protest in Portland, attended by dozens of protesters on Thursday A viral video clip Christopher David, from 2020 of a protester, was sprayed by a federal agent, which was incorrectly defined because it was wrong in June of this year.

The report focused mainly on a protest outside the facility, with dozens of protesters, who brought a guillotine as a propeller before filled with chemical agents by federal officers.

“These are the terrorists paid,” the president said once again A fundamental conspiracy theory In 2020, his administration was strengthened about anti-fascist protesters.

The President said, “These are paid agitators, these are professional. I watched last night, I’m very good about it. These are paid agitators, radical left groups,” he said.

He claimed that he proved the theory of good printed signs exhibited by some protesters, “These are very dangerous for the agitators and our country, and if we go there, if we go to Portland, they will not delete them. They will go. They will not stop for fighting.

“Like living in this hell, President said, Portland said a fictitious version of Portland, which was not similar to the real city where the fences around the Federal Courthouse, which was the mass protests scene in 2020, and the central police headquarters no longer ride on the windows.

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield threatened to take action if he sent troops to Trump Oregon.

Rayfield, although some threats from Trump administration are new or surprising, this is not that: We have been preparing to respond since Trump returned to the office, ”he said. “California has shown how effective our approach can be to stop federal extreme access. Oregon is a safe place and we plan to keep it in this way. The president may have too many strengths, but he needs to remain on his lane – and if he doesn’t, we’ll keep him responsible.”