Overview

• The Oregon Republican Party posted on X, Facebook, and Instagram that President Trump had deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland.
• The photo used was a digital composite traced by The Guardian to a 2008 Getty image of South American riot police and a separate 2017 protest shot from Pexels.
• Details visible in the image, including shields labeled “Policia,” indicated the officers were not from the United States, with context pointing to Ecuador.
• After a journalist flagged the fakery, the party replied, “We’re not reporters, just bad memers,” and the posts and reply were later removed.
• News reports note a federal judge blocked the attempt to send California’s National Guard to Portland, meaning the claimed deployment did not occur.