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A fiery clip circulating from Newsmax’s Saturday Report showed Rudy Giuliani telling viewers that Portland has been effectively handed over to radical Antifa elements and that local officials have abandoned the city to chaos. Giuliani’s excoriation of left-wing mayors and city councils was blunt and unapologetic, the kind of wake-up call many Americans believe our leaders desperately need.
President Trump answered by ordering federal forces — including National Guard units — to protect ICE facilities and federal property in Portland, arguing that the city has failed to defend basic law and order. The bold move has ignited a national fight over federal authority versus local control, and it underscored a simple truth: when Democrat-run cities coddle mobs, the federal government must step in to protect people and institutions.
Oregon’s governor and Portland’s mayor promptly sued to block the deployment, accusing the White House of a political stunt and claiming there was no emergency justification for troops on the streets. That predictable legal tantrum only highlights the dangerous disconnect between officials who prefer virtue-signaling over protecting ordinary citizens and a federal government that is finally refusing to look the other way.
Conservative journalists and victims of Antifa violence have been laying out a disturbing pattern of coordination between extremist protesters and local powerbrokers, and those allegations are gaining traction even in mainstream conservative reporting. Witnesses and commentators on conservative outlets say federal arrests tied to the demonstrations prove there is an organized element behind the chaos, not merely spontaneous protest.
This moment exposes the rotten fruit of the left’s long Indulgence of lawlessness: cities hollowed out by policies that excuse crime, defund police, and refuse to hold violent actors accountable. Giuliani’s blunt charge that these Democrat leaders have created alternative lawless enclaves isn’t pretty, but it’s the blunt truth Americans who pay the bills and raise families on these streets already know.
Patriots should cheer any leader willing to restore order and defend federal property; softness is invitation to anarchy. If Portland’s leadership won’t do their job, the federal government has an obligation to protect citizens, uphold the rule of law, and demand accountability — and conservatives should keep up the pressure until safety returns. No reasonable person wants soldiers in our streets long-term, but neither will we accept permanent surrendered neighborhoods where radical thugs write the rules.
I searched multiple outlets and Newsmax clips to confirm the exact wording of Giuliani’s remarks as framed in some social clips. I found plentiful reporting on Washington’s deployment, Portland officials’ lawsuit, and conservative commentary on Antifa activity, but I could not locate a verbatim, independently verified transcript of the exact phrase “seceded” attributed to Giuliani in the YouTube clip title; the broader substance of his on-air criticism of Portland’s leadership and the ongoing federal response is, however, well documented.
