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Oregon’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the president had applied a “baseless, wildly hyperbolic pretext” to send in the troops.

Some of his footage was also reviewed by a former chief constable and a former attorney general - the government's principal legal adviser - so they could give an expert view on the evidence.

He has vocally encouraged his attorney general to target political opponents.

The president urged his attorney general last weekend to aggressively go after some of his opponents, naming James Comey among them.

Bailey’s actions as attorney general, according to legal observers, stood apart from the office’s core, nonpolitical duties: defending the state against lawsuits and handling felony criminal appeals.