2020-07-22
America, here’s the truth about Portland’s protests that the mainstream is hiding - REVOLT. The story presented here: Portland has a long and deeply racist history; the Portland Police Department is an outstanding example of the bad tendencies and practices that are coming to national attention and has been for decades; the Portland mayor (currently Ted Wheeler) is also the police commissioner.
The national argument now occurring between Trump and Portland’s current Mayor Ted Wheeler is not over tactics, rhetoric, or even the views of the nonviolent demonstrators. The argument is about which armed force should have the right to “quell” the protests. The people of Portland see right through this, and it is understandably frustrating to see the Portland mayor lauded in national circles for condemning the presence of Trump’s forces while continuing to work with him in trying to end the protests. Both President Trump and Wheeler want the protests to end, they want credit for ending them. Both of them gas, beat, and arrest nonviolent demonstrators on a nightly basis.
Ted Wheeler is not a good person; he and his police department are working together with Trump and the DHS to attack protestors, while using the moment to posture otherwise. Wheeler’s PD is also, informally, working with armed white nationalist citizens — vigilantes.
Portland voters approved campaign finance limits, and Wheeler continued to violate the law and challenge it in court, accepting huge contributions from wealthy out-of-state donors and disgraced Trump bundler Gordon Sondland. Wheeler is currently in the midst of a re-election bid. The most recent polls show him tied with his challenger from the left Sarah Iannarone, a frequent attendee at Portland’s protests.