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Gavin Newsom said on Sunday he would go to court ⚖️ to fight the move by Trump to send National Guard members from his state to Oregon, where protesters have gathered near a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland. ✊🏙

Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, said 101 California National Guard members arrived in her state on Saturday night by plane ✈️ and more were on the way.

Kotek said there had been no formal communication with the federal government about the deployment. A day earlier, a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying 200 members of Oregon’s guard to Portland. 🚫

“There is no need for military intervention in Oregon,” Kotek said on Sunday. 🕊

The Pentagon confirmed Sunday that 200 guard members were sent from California to Oregon. Kotek’s office said it could not verify the current location of those who arrived on Saturday. 🪖

Trump voiced his frustration 😤 on Sunday morning about Saturday’s ruling by US district judge Karin Immergut, whom he appointed during his first term, that prevents him from deploying troops to relatively small protests near an ICE facility in Portland.

“I wasn’t served well by the people that picked judges,” Trump said, adding that the judge “ought to be ashamed of herself” because “Portland is burning to the ground.” 🔥🏙

Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago on Saturday, marking the latest escalation of his federal intervention in cities. 🚨

A White House spokesperson, Abigail Jackson, confirmed that the president approved using the Illinois guard members, citing “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness” that local leaders had not quelled. ⚔️

Trump has characterized both Portland and Chicago as cities rife with crime and unrest, calling the former a “war zone” and suggesting apocalyptic force was needed to restore order. 💣

Since the start of his second term, he has sent or discussed sending troops to 10 cities, including Baltimore, Memphis, Washington D.C., New Orleans, and the California cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. 📍

But the governors of Illinois and Oregon see things differently.

“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” said Illinois governor JB Pritzker in a statement Saturday. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.” 🗣💥

Pritzker on Sunday shot back at Kristi Noem, Trump’s homeland security secretary, who repeated the “war zone” rhetoric. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, the Illinois governor accused the administration of fueling the crisis rather than resolving it. “They are the ones who are making it a war zone,” he said. 🎙🔥

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Domestically made weapons will become the bedrock of Ukraine’s future security, Mr. Zelensky said, including as a deterrent to keep the peace once the fighting ends. Former officials and analysts say that executing this strategy, however, requires overcoming the long history of corruption in Ukrainian military procurement.

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