Portland Mayor-elect Keith Wilson speaks during an interview with the Associated Press before being sworn in, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
I need to call out Portland Mayor Keith Wilson’s latest lies.
The Mayor is demanding that citizens volunteer their time to help the homeless — or else, he claims, the Trump “bogeyman” will come.
Let’s start with the facts. Portland and Multnomah County spent just over $500 million of your tax dollars last year on the homeless. That works out to more than $62,000 for every homeless person counted by the county.
Not enough, says the Mayor. He wants you to volunteer even more to help them.
Does that make sense to anyone?
Next, Mayor Wilson threatens “federal intervention” by President Trump.
Wilson knows that’s a lie. Trump did intervene in Washington, D.C., because of its insane crime problem — and it worked. In the last 30 days:
Carjackings are down 85%
Robberies are down 42%
Violent crime is down 25%
Trump has also promised to arrest illegal aliens sheltered by sanctuary cities like Portland and Seattle.
Wilson could tell the truth. But imagine if the Mayor said, “I need Portlanders to pony up more than that half billion because otherwise President Trump plans to crack down on crime in our community and arrest criminal illegal aliens.”
That would make Wilson sound like a fool — so lying remains his only refuge.
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