Already, we’ve seen Portland’s local GOP party push Oath Keepers as private security for events—a result of the threats, Multnomah County Republican Party chief James Buchal has said, emanating from the anarchist, antifa elements targeting the city. A legislative aide to a Republican State Representative in Oregon recently served jail-time for loaning a gun to a member of the Three Percenters—a group to which the aide, Angela Roman, also belonged. Perhaps most concerningly, at least one militia member helped police outright arrest protesters in Portland in early June. The militiaman later said he was working at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.
Politico, “How Militias Became the Private Police for White Supremacists”
