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Donald Trump unleashes Twitter storm after Portland protest death

Posts from a right-wing journalist that claimed to have "exclusive" knowledge of the Portland incident were also retweeted by the president

Dallas : In this June 11, 2020 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion about Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing, at Gateway Church Dallas in Dallas | AP/PTI
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Portland has been the site of protests, often violent, for months, following the killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by police in Minnesota in late May.

Ros Krasny | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm about Portland, Oregon, early Sunday, hours after a man was killed there during clashes between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter demonstrators.

The president retweeted a post using a profanity to describe Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, suggesting only to "Tone down the language," and others in which the original tweeters accused Wheeler, a Democrat, of "war crimes" and of having blood on his hands.

Posts from a right-wing journalist that claimed to have "exclusive" knowledge of the Portland incident were also retweeted by the president.

Portland has been the site of protests, often violent, for months, following