On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that things in Portland only become confrontational “when the federal agents are starting the confrontation.” And there are “occasional confrontations” the police “can handle like any other occasional confrontation” and “Portland could return to being peaceful” if there weren’t federal officials there.
Merkley said, “[T]he district judge says there’s nothing that approaches [a rebellion]. There have been a few scuffles, mostly instigated by the folks, the federal agents that Trump has sent out there.”
He added, “I was there several times last weekend, the weekend before…
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