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Karoline Leavitt Has a 'Journalism' Challenge for CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Portland Mobs

Doug P.
Doug P.  |  2:52 PM on October 06, 2025

If you only listen to Democrats, Portland, Chicago and other blue cities have been crime-free utopias until the Trump administration sent in ICE to enforce federal laws.

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It got so bad in Portland that SecWar Hegseth took action: 

The Portland police have obviously been told to stand down instead up up to the antifa mob:

Now we'll go all the way across the country to Washington, DC and Karoline Leavitt's White House briefing. 

CNN's Kaitlan Collins quoted Democrats and the Portland police chief in her question, and Leavitt suggested what Collins' next assignment should be: 

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It certainly sounds like Leavitt should be showing more videos that some "journalists" might have missed. 

Excellent idea. 

Collins responded to @RapidResponse47 this way:

Portland still has a police department? Well, if not then who would arrest people trying to stop the madness and cover the story (just ask Nick Sortor)? 

And of course the police chief will think everything's fine. That's because apparently he won't go where the mob is: 

Last week, Cammila Wamsley, director of Portland’s ICE office, said the facility has endured more than 100 straight nights of violence, with Portland police largely absent under direction from the mayor and City Council.

"It’s frustrating for us to watch people be attacked on the street and know that we don’t have the authority to be able to really step in unless there’s some nexus to federal law," Wamsley said.

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But we don't expect CNN, of "fiery but mostly peaceful" notoriety, to cover this in any way that might make what the Trump administration is doing seem necessary. 

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