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BrianKrebs Sep 27, 2025

Next up in the anything-but-Epstein distraction plan: Send troops into Portland.

"President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent."

Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide troops to what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

"Portland has been a target of right-wing politicians for the way it has handled racial-justice protests as well as its homeless population, tolerating encampments in the central part of the city. But Trump will again encounter the dynamic he did when he deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles — a military deployment in a state run by a Democratic governor who objects to the decision and will have grounds to fight it in court."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/27/trump-military-portland-ice/

Trump calls for troops in Portland, escalating use of military inside U.S.

President Donald Trump authorized the use of troops in Portland, Oregon, in a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.

The Washington Post

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Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡Sep 28, 2025

@briankrebs I saw a C-17 military cargo plane land at PDX on Friday before the announcements of federal troops coming to Portland. PDX is a joint-use civilian-military airport with an Oregon Air National Guard base. C-17s are not based here. It looked far enough away that it was probably landing 28R, opposite side of the airport from the ANG base. I didn't think much of it because visiting military aircraft sometimes drop in for fuel on the way somewhere else. But now the timing adds questions.

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Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡

@briankrebs In hindsight, the visiting military aircraft in Portland so far are all completely explained as performers in this weekend's Oregon Int'l Airshow at McMinnville Airport #KMMV. Military performers stage out of PDX because it has more ramp space, longer runways and better security. It's a shame political headlines cast an air of suspicion upon invited guests that the airshow organizers worked so hard to bring here.