White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched into a testy tirade against a CNN reporter in trying to justify President Donald Trump’s attempts at sending another state’s National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, over a different version of reality than what’s actually happening on the ground in the city.
Trump keeps insisting that chaos and mayhem are playing out in Portland and that he has the right to send in federalized National Guard troops from California to take control, and that’s after an Oregon judge ruled against his efforts at sending in federalized National Guard troops from Oregon.
Leavitt angrily lashed out at CNN host Kaitlan Collins after Collins asked “which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there if any?”
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