“A Corrupt, Desperate President Corrupting an Agency”: Trump’s Weaponization of DHS Sets Off Alarm Bells | Vanity Fair

Portland has been Senator Ron Wyden’s hometown since the mid-1970s, so he has seen all manner of marches and protests. But as the Oregon Democrat walked the city’s streets last week, talking to locals and working to lower tensions that have persisted since the killing of George Floyd, he encountered a problem he’d never had to deal with before: Heavily armed federal troops wearing combat fatigues, dispatched by President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security, who were stoking violence instead of quelling it by firing rubber bullets and snatching civilian demonstrators.
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