DEMS/POLICE: “I mean, we’re sending law enforcement. Portland was totally out of control. The Democrats — the liberal Democrats running the place had no idea what they were doing. They were ripping down — for 51 days, ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it. The level of corruption and what was going on there is incredible. And then the governor comes out: We don’t need any help…’
And if the governor is not going to do something about, we’ll do something about it.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Phase Four Negotiations,” whitehouse.gov, July 20, 2020