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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon (www.theguardian.com)

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Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.

Trump made the announcement on social media, using references to antifascists and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). He claimed that the deployment was necessary “to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our (immigration and customs enforcement) Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists”.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every person along the chain of command here is in violation of their oath, and openly committing an act of treason. Anyone who has taken an oath to defend the country from threats, “foreign and domestic,” is now required by their oath to put these invaders down.

Any military force invading US territory, regardless of if they are themselves US soldiers, is now a legitimate target and civilians have every right to self-defense against them.