Portland police commander testifies that Trump's federal forces escalated protest violence at ICE facility, contradicting administration claims during bench trial.

It was the second time this week government lawyers had to come clean in court over President Donald Trump’s designs on Portland.

The federal trial in Portland over President Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops to the city continued Thursday, two days after a majority of the judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to reconsider an earlier decision by the court to allow the deployment.