President Donald Trump has said he is dispatching 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in a “War ravaged” city where police have been unable to stop people from “trying to burn down buildings, including federal buildings.”

“It’s every night, and they’ve done it for years,” Trump told a roomful of reporters in the Oval Office last week.

But his rationale doesn’t stand up to the facts.

“I don’t think it reflects the reality of what life is like in Portland at all,” Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “It appears to be very much being shaped by misinformation on social media and perhaps some major news corporations.”

Five years ago, Portland became a focal point for immense and

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