"U.S. President Donald Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Democratic-run cities if judges bar him from activating the National Guard, as he intends to do to provide security on the streets of Chicago and Portland, he said Monday, as tensions escalate over the deployment orders. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump compared the situation in Portland, the largest city in the state of Oregon, to an insurrection. Portland is on fire. Portland's been on fire for years, he asserted."
"The president claims that the city is dominated by the anti-fascist movement (Antifa) which he has declared a terrorist organization and that night after night for months, violent protests have been taking place around the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency charged with enforcing his harsh deportation policy. Therefore, he considers it essential to deploy the National Guard there."
"And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there's no problem, the president added. Asked by a reporter if he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act and under what conditions, the Republican responded that if I had to enact it, I'd do it, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up."
President Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Democratic-run cities if judges block National Guard activations. He intends deployments for security on the streets of Chicago and Portland and compared Portland to an insurrection. He claims Antifa dominates Portland and that repeated violent protests have occurred around ICE offices, arguing National Guard deployment is essential. He criticized a judge for downplaying the problem and said he would invoke the Insurrection Act if people were being killed and courts or local officials blocked action. The Insurrection Act permits presidential deployment of armed forces domestically to quell armed uprisings.
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