(Washington) Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the army on Saturday in a fourth city, Portland, and authorized “the use of force if necessary”, as part of its fight against crime in democratic metropolises.
“I order the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to deploy all the troops necessary to protect Portland ravaged by the war, and our ICE (the immigration police, editor’s note) installations besieged by antiFa and other interior terrorists,” he wrote on his social social platform.
“I also authorize the use of the maximum force if necessary,” he added, without however specifying what he heard there.
While Portland has been experiencing demonstrations against immigration police for several months, the Republican had threatened in early September to send the National Guard to this city in the northwest of the United States, the largest in Oregon state, also a democrat.
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Two weeks ago, Donald Trump had signed a decree to deploy the military of the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, justifying his decision by a “crime” that rages in this southern city, according to him.
Métropole à Noire Noir, Memphis is led by a Democrat mayor, in a state held by a republican governor.
And after Los Angeles in June, the national guards had been deployed in mid-August in Washington, the federal capital.
Donald Trump also threatened to send federal police and soldiers to Chicago, New York, or Baltimore.
On Monday, the American president also signed a decree classifying the “Antifa” movement, which brings together groups claiming to be anti -fascism, as “terrorist organization”.
