Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked DHS/DoD Memo Shows: LA "hasn't been perfect" but indicates what's coming "for years to come"

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‘Legal insurrection’ - Stephen Miller on judge blocking Portland National Guard deployment​

Hours prior, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, said there was ultimately no need for troops in Portland, siding with the state’s argument that the president’s attempt to deploy soldiers was “based largely on a fictional narrative” about public safety in the city.

In her Saturday ruling, Immergut agreed that the president is “certainly entitled” to a great level of deference but said that is not equivalent to “ignoring the facts on the ground.”

 

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Hours prior, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, said there was ultimately no need for troops in Portland, siding with the state’s argument that the president’s attempt to deploy soldiers was “based largely on a fictional narrative” about public safety in the city.

Unlike Miller or any of the other Trump lackeys, Immergut *lives* in Portland and *worked* at the Federal courthouse in 2020 when it really was under siege. She knows there arguments about the city are garbage.

 

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The fundamental principles of western democracy are threatened as the lines are blurred

 

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Clearly taking a nasty tone and not being compelling nor smart. The so called pastor should apologize!

 

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... judge temporarily blocks his plan to deploy federal troops in Portland​

District Judge Karin Immergut granted a temporary restraining order Saturdayblocking Trump from sending the [Orgeon] National Guard to Portland, ruling that city and Oregon officials “are likely to succeed on their claim that the President exceeded his constitutional authority and violated the Tenth Amendment” in ordering the deployment.

No, you can't use the CA NG either.

Judge blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon​

A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president mobilized California troops for Portland after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon's National Guard the day before.

But on Sunday, the president moved to send National Guard troops to the state from neighboring California and then from Texas.

Scott Kennedy, the attorney representing Oregon, said he learned of the Texas National Guard mobilization just 24 minutes before the emergency hearing on Sunday night. "It feels a little bit like we're playing a game of rhetorical whack-a-mole here," he told Immergut.

During a hastily called telephone hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted a temporary restraining order sought by California and Oregon.

Immergut, who was appointed by Mr. Trump during his first term, issued her second, more sweeping order late Sunday after she upbraided the federal government's attorney and questioned how the move to send the California and Texas troops to Oregon was not "in direct contravention of the order that was issued yesterday."

 

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Immergut, who was appointed by Mr. Trump during his first term, issued her second, more sweeping order late Sunday after she upbraided the federal government's attorney and questioned how the move to send the California and Texas troops to Oregon was not "in direct contravention of the order that was issued yesterday."

It's like giving directions to a recalcitrant teenager.

 

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From the previous article:

Small protests have been going on nightly outside Portland's immigration processing facility since Mr. Trump's second term began in January. There have been occasional flare-ups, including in June, but for weeks the demonstrations attracted only a few dozen people — until the Trump administration mobilized the Oregon National Guard on Sept. 28 against Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's wishes.

 

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From the previous article:

Small protests have been going on nightly outside Portland's immigration processing facility since Mr. Trump's second term began in January. There have been occasional flare-ups, including in June, but for weeks the demonstrations attracted only a few dozen people — until the Trump administration mobilized the Oregon National Guard on Sept. 28 against Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's wishes.

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That graphic is great. I had a long winded thing I was writing for Facebook about how Trump was manufacturing the crisis, so he could stand there and look like the strong man dealing with the crisis. 1984's "Big Brother" would be so proud. But this simple diagram cuts through hundreds of words to smack it all down as the silly photo-op it is.

I mean - when is Trump going to tear-gas another crowd so he can hold the bible awkwardly in front of a church he never attends? I miss those days.

 

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That graphic is great. I had a long winded thing I was writing for Facebook about how Trump was manufacturing the crisis, so he could stand there and look like the strong man dealing with the crisis. 1984's "Big Brother" would be so proud. But this simple diagram cuts through hundreds of words to smack it all down as the silly photo-op it is.

I mean - when is Trump going to tear-gas another crowd so he can hold the bible awkwardly in front of a church he never attends? I miss those days.

Wasn't that the one where he asked about shooting protesters in the legs but got refused?

 

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Wasn't that the one where he asked about shooting protesters in the legs but got refused?

Probably also - but it's hard to keep up with the way this man's petty outbursts flood the media zone all the time. It seems he famously said it about the George Floyd protests because they triggered his NPD.

Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters​

Mark Esper has written a book about the challenges he faced as Defense secretary in the Trump administration.
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Former Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said President Donald Trump inquired about shooting protesters amid the unrest that took place after George Floyd's murder in 2020. He recounts that incident, and many others, in a wide-ranging interview with NPR's Michel Martin on All Things Considered.
Esper said he stayed in the administration because he worried that if he left, the president would more easily implement some of his "dangerous ideas."
The former Defense chief also said he hopes Trump does not seek the presidency in 2024.
"We need leaders of integrity and character, and we need leaders who will bring people together and reach across the aisle and do what's best for the country. And Donald Trump doesn't meet the mark for me on any of those issues."
Esper said he and other top officials were caught off guard by Trump's reaction to the unrest in the summer of 2020.


"The president was enraged," Esper recalled. "He thought that the protests made the country look weak, made us look weak and 'us' meant him. And he wanted to do something about it.
"We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?' ... It was a suggestion and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as this issue just hung very heavily in the air."

As a young Army captain in the mid-1990s, Esper said he saw the office occupied by the Defense secretary as hallowed ground, a place he hardly dared imagine himself. Yet, there he was 21 years later, serving as President Trump's secretary of Defense; facing challenges he also never imagined.

He wrote about those challenges in a new book, A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times. In it, Esper describes Trump as a volatile, ill-informed leader obsessed with power and self image.
Esper also detailed in his book a campaign by the former president and his then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to deny a promotion to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, whose congressional testimony led to Trump's first impeachment.

Vindman, a Ukraine expert and former official with the National Security Council, testified that he was present during a now-infamous phone call between the former president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which Trump tried to blackmail Zelenskyy for political dirt on Joe Biden and his family. That allegation helped ignite the impeachment effort against Trump.
Esper said he worries about the fallout from Trump's political tactics.

 

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Interesting interview.

Portland is 145 square miles, yet one city block is damaged in protests months or even years ago draw disproportionate attention.

Portland didn't vote for Trump.
That has offended his NPD.
Period.

 

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Trump's use of the National Guard sets up a legal clash testing presidential power​

With litigation piling up, Trump officials have shown disdain for judges and decisions they oppose but so far have avoided the direct kind of confrontation that legal experts say could do real harm.