After getting off the phone with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Saturday, the president mused over something that had baffled him about the call. Kotek had been "very nice," said Trump. But she was trying hard to convince him not to send in the National Guard, and that just didn't make any sense to him. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'"
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum federalizing 200 members of Oregon's National Guard to deploy to Portland, and the state of Oregon promptly filed suit to stop it from happening.
In a hearing on Fr …
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