Posted on 07/17/2020 5:29:16 PM PDT by buckalfa
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city after some detained people on streets far from federal property they were sent to protect.
“Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a news conference.
Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said Trump is looking for a confrontation in the hopes of winning political points elsewhere and to serve as a distraction from the coronavirus pandemic, which is causing spiking numbers of infections in Oregon and the nation.
Brown’s spokesman, Charles Boyle, said Friday that arresting people without probable cause is “extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights.”
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Hey Ted, go to he!!.
I agree, but that my FRiend is up to the people of Portland.
Only when it suits them.
“If antifa are terrorists, then they can be treated as terrorists”
More Trump BS. He said he would declare Antifa a terrorist organization I. MAY. It is now July. As usual, it’s meaningless bluster.
Don’t pay attention to what he says. Watch what he does.
Send US Marshalls in. Screw u Teddy.
This answer is the reason they are getting worse. Tippy toe.
That side can loot, burn, kill and the powers it takes to stop it all is illegal without following every step of the law and if a judge does
not like you, he stops you.
These are not normal times ..we have not faced out of control states who want this to go on... and an effort to overthrow our government and take pur President out.
The swamp knows how to insurrect..how to take a power they dont have..
Send the troops in ....
Federal forces to defend federal property, correct action.
Exactly. This strategy worked perfectly with the mayor of Seattle. When it hits the fan in Portland, and it will, it’s the mayor that’s going to feel the heat from his own voters. The more Trump gets involved, the more chances the media has to blame the whole thing on him, not the mayor, where the blame rightly belongs.
“....and I also believe Esper and Milley told Trump to pound sand over the Insurrection Act back on June 2nd....”
Yep. The POTUS has absolutely no military leadership support countering an internal overthrow of the country. Both of those turds need to be gone asap. They’re most likely on Trump’s short list right after the election. Not supporting the POTUS is a death wish to one’s career.
Maybe an informal militia action would not be “frowned upon” by the rest of the country in this case.
Shades of how Trump’s forcing Chicago’s mayor to make a complete public ass of herself?
Asshole can’t control it’s city, but says feds can’t protect fed property..... Get bent dirtbag
The feds ought to arrest the mayor
When you break into a federal courthouse to destroy or vandalize it, it’s a federal crime. We have all watched the mayor of Portland encourage and foster this insurgency, which is anti-Democracy. These insurgents don’t want to protest, they want to create their own country, a country outside of the USA. This mayor is complacent meaning he is now and enemy of the state. So, the federal government has no choice in the matter. Democrat leaders in Oregon are Anti-Democracy and anti-Constitution. The time to act is now before this cancer takes over other cities.
Mayor Ted might be the leader of this insurgency. if so, he might be declared an enemy of the state
So far he’s only protecting Federal property. And the US Marshalls have the ability to detain suspects who are part of the conspiracy to destroy the property
There are no legal issues. The little boy throwing a temper tantrum has no legal effect. Just makes him look like a jackass liberal that he is.
That would have been Obama doing it. Totally different.
Yeah. I’m sure. Lol.
Oh, Lightfoot had that down long before the present crisis.
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