Trump administration sending more federal agents to reinforce Portland courthouse

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July 27, 2020 at 2:24 p.m. CDT

The Trump administration is sending more federal agents to Portland, Ore., as officials consider pushing back harder and farther against the growing crowds and nightly clashes with protesters, vandals and rioters, The Washington Post has learned.

To strengthen federal forces arrayed around the city’s downtown courthouse, the U.S. Marshals Service decided last week to send 100 deputy U.S. Marshals to Portland, according to an internal Marshals email reviewed by The Post. The personnel began arriving Thursday night, the email says.

The Department of Homeland Security is also considering a plan to send an additional 50 U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel to the city, but a final decision on the deployment has not been made, according to senior administration officials involved in the federal response who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.

Such moves would mark a significant expansion of the federal force operating at the courthouse — there were 114 federal agents there in mid-July — though it is unclear how many personnel there now would be relieved and sent home once the reinforcements arrive.

--PayWall--https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/portland-protests-trump-federal-agents-reinforcements/2020/07/27/e8a943ae-d023-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

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1. Bring it on, you loser

Not getting the result you wanted, so you're going to double your efforts? We're ready for you, you waddling toad.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Waddling toad. Bwahahhaa!

Waddling orange toad!

[regnaD kciN]

9. The "result" he wants is major violence from the crowd...

...particularly violence on a level that would justify the use of lethal force in the minds of most Americans. (Remember Kent State.) And I suspect he'll keep ramping up the pressure until he gets what he wants.

[gratuitous]

10. This isn't our first rodeo

And the people getting shot and beaten know what they're there for, just like John Lewis knew what was waiting for him on the other end of that bridge.

[SharonClark]

13. Are you in Portland?

[OneBro]

2. Mr. Make Matters Worse is doing what he does best.

F*ck it up, f*ck it up some more, then blame someone else while simultaneously claiming victory.

[pandr32]

4. He seems determined to shut down all those good people standing together

The media images must be driving him crazier than usual.

[Mike 03]

5. So the U.S. Marshals are involved.

I just read an article that said it was CBP and made no mention of the Marshals.

This is depressing.

[edhopper]

6. Are these the Marshalls that

will remove him from the White House when he refuses to go?

[procon]

7. Trump is looking to kill someone.

He can't increase his militaristic showdown without also producing more violent actions against the protesters. Given his past statements, Trump has already ordered his goons to rough up the civilians and bloody the press corps and the legal observers.

These protesters are at grave risk. It's only a matter of time before one of those federal troops does something stupid.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. He desperately wants someone to die so it can be escalated so

he can do something illegal to interfere with the election, somehow.

Or make the 12th amendment come into play somehow

But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

26 red states

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. Notice they lump "protesters, vandals and rioters" into the same group.

It's like when the Bush administration said we should be afraid of Saddam Hussein because of "chemical, biological and nuclear weapons," knowing that the only word people would pay attention to was "nuclear."

In Portland, there are thousands of peaceful protesters (who Trump calls "terrorists" ), and very few people who fall in the latter two categories. But by lumping the three groups together Fat Donnie has his justification for sending in more federal troops.

[SharonClark]

12. The protesters need to get away from the Federal

Buildings and take the protest elsewhere. Quit play into trump’s hands.

[CentralMass]

14. I agree.

[Blecht]

15. Come here and lead us away to where you think we should be, then

Lots of armchair QBs around here.

[CentralMass]

16. If the city didn't get trashed again back on May 29th. Including

this federal building that is the the now focal point of this mess, and if the fence at that building wasn't stormed every night for ~50 fifty nights. We wouldn't have illegal assemblies declared night after night or federal troops brought in.