Mayor tells Trump to ‘stay out of Seattle’ after federal troops ordered to Portland Casey Martin September 29, 2025 / 1:37 pm

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said they are prepared to fight President Donald Trump if he sends the National Guard to Washington. This weekend, Trump ordered the deployment of troops to Portland, a move Harrell called “un-American.”

Standing on the seventh floor of City Hall on Monday morning, Harrell gestured to the bustling streets below and declared, “There is no insurrection here.”

Harrell's message to the federal government was clear: Do not send troops to Seattle as the president has done in cities like Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Harrell, Brown, and other local elected leaders including members of the

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