WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.
Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.
Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation’s capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”
Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.
Edit to add archive link: https://archive.ph/2C0cN
Best case scenario? This is just more distraction from the epstein files
Worst case? This is him realizing qanon has turned on him and setting up martial law to protect himself for the next ten terms.
Most likely? A mix of making sure nobody can protest him at any “public” event and photo ops to make himself look strong that will fail even harder than the LA mobilization because there just isn’t room for the national guard to bivvy around DC. Like… they’re gonna be spooning with the unhoused folk in alleyways.
But the most important thing to remember? All those men and women in the National Guard are the real heroes and are going to protect us. And if you say otherwise, you are just a stupid civvy who doesn’t understand that legally they have to follow orders. And if you point out the cognitive dissonance there, no salmon for you.
I feel like it’s him seeing what he can get away with, then escalating when he inevitably gets away with it. Start with the local DC area, expand outward later.
I am expecting congress to do nothing. They already got theirs, so they don’t care about holding the reins of political power. Long as Trump doesn’t bother the elite, it is all good in their eyes.