Well, lookee here! The Wall Street Journal did actual journalism, checking police reports in Portland to see whether there was anything to Trump's version of a fiery hellhole. Now, we all knew it wasn't true, but an awful lot of "news" sources treated Trump's insanity as reality. Via the Wall Street Journal:

On Sept. 5, President Trump described ongoing protests in Portland as “unbelievable” and “the destruction of the city.”

Later that day, a sergeant from the Portland Police Bureau filed his daily observations of the demonstrations outside an ICE facility.

“Saw 8 people out front and couldn’t even get one of them to flip me the bird,” he wrote. “Very low energy.”

Daily reports from Portland police in the month leading up to Trump’s decision, on Sept. 27, to send federal troops into

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