Maddow Blog | Trump's troop deployment to Portland, Oregon, faces immediate pushback in court

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : About a week ago, Donald Trump delivered remarks in which he boasted about the positive feedback he'd received about deploying National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee.
50% : The NBC affiliate in Portland highlighted some highly relevant comments Trump made to NBC News:
49% : The quotes Trump shared were apparently concocted in his imagination, and he presented them as real.
38% : It wasn't the only area of uncertainty: There were also questions as to whether the president was sending National Guard or active-duty troops (or perhaps both), when this might happen, and whatever became of JD Vance's recent assurances that Trump would never deploy troops to an American city without an invitation from state and local officials.
38% : But as important as these angles are, there's a related question hanging overhead: Why Portland? The official line from Trump is that the city is "war ravaged" and "under siege," making it necessary to use troops to protect local ICE facilities.
37% : For that matter, we don't even know for sure whether there will be deployments: Trump claimed on Saturday that he was issuing a directive to the Pentagon, but it's an open question as to whether he was just making this up.
29% : So Trump isn't sure he's right about Portland descending into a lawless hellscape, but he's definitely seen some unsettling images while "watching things on television.

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