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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey

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

A man in a suit at a desk (Trump at the resolute desk) speaks.
Donald Trump during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC on Friday. Photograph: Francis Chung/EPA

Donald Trump told reporters that he might send national guard troops into Portland, Oregon, apparently because he was misled about the scale of small protests there by a TV report that featured video of a 2020 protest wrongly described as having taken place this summer.

“I will say this, I watched today, I didn’t know that was continuing to go on, but Portland is unbelievable, what’s going on,” Trump said. He then claimed, incorrectly, that he had seen video evidence of “the destruction of the city”.

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