DHS/PROTESTS: “Homeland Security have done a fantastic job. They went to Oregon a little more than a week ago. The place was a mess. The city, Portland, was just a disaster. You see it, and a lot of people weren’t reporting it right. They tried to pretend it was a protest, as opposed to anarchists and agitators. You understand what I’m saying. It’s a mess.
They went there a short while ago, and they saved a federal courthouse that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. And they put a ring around the courthouse and they saved it. But the group that’s there is basically meant to save buildings, and they were very strong, very powerful. And they didn’t come out too often out of this cocoon that they built in order to save these very expensive, valuable, and psychologically important buildings — right? — like courthouses.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020