Much of the information about the impending invasion of Portland has been delivered by local elected leaders, not through official White House communication. Trump’s decision to narrow in on Portland and its supposed “Antifa-led hellfire” comes amid a national fixation on left-wing organizations and activists. The incidents listed in the White House press release occurred over an extended period of time and don’t carry a clear organizational throughline. Tuesday’s White House press release focuses solely on the “radical left” without mentioning incidents of right-wing extremism in Portland and elsewhere. In his push to send National Guard troops into Portland, Trump has routinely spouted false information and used inflammatory language to describe protesters.