Most media reports paint the anarchistic rioters as “peaceful” protesters being victimized by an overreaching federal government – all at President Trump’s direction.

In one report last week, the New York Times provided us with a shining example of what deceptive reporting about the violence in Portland looks like. In a video tweet, they took the word of one of those “peaceful protesters”, who said the protests were “dying down, and then the feds showed up”, as the gospel truth. They also featured other “protesters” talking about how “peaceful” it had allegedly been in Portland until the feds arrived.

Pretty much everything the protesters said in the video is a lie. It has not been peaceful in Portland, not for a long time. The Antifa-led violence in the city has been going on since well before Trump decided federal intervention was necessary to stop the attacks on federal buildings. Also, the violence we’ve seen night after night in Portland is typically instigated by the agitators, not federal law enforcement, as the Associated Press surprisingly documented over the weekend.