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Posted on 08/15/2025 11:07:42 PM PDT by John Semmens
Using powers authorized by the Home Rule Act, President Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard troops, FBI agents, and other federal law-enforcement officers to patrol the streets of Washington DC. This move has been met with mixed reactions.
Citing a similar protest where Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) called attention to Israeli atrocities against Hamas by banging a pot, Free DC Project Campaign Director Alex Dodds urged supporters to "bang pots and pans every night until this occupation by an invading army is ended. We will multiply Rep. Tlaib's effort by a thousand fold. Everyone in the city will hear our message and rise up against Trump's tyranny."
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) called Trump's move "unnecessary. I have been in Congress for more than four decades and have always felt perfectly safe. I've never been assaulted. I've never been carjacked. The notion that taxpayers should have to bear the cost of unneeded troops and FBI agents patrolling what I've found to be safe streets is wasteful spending." Fox News pointed out that "Sen. Schumer has a full-time security detail that accompanies him wherever he goes in DC."
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) accused Trump "of hypocrisy. Most of the victims of crime in DC are not important people. The nation can easily survive without them. But four years ago when MAGA protesters trespassed inside the Capitol Trump failed to deploy the National Guard. Over 500 of this country's most important government officials were left in great peril." Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund pointed out that "it was Speaker Pelosi who failed to authorize the National Guard troops President Trump requested. But even without these troops every member of Congress was able to run away before they were harmed."
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to introduce a resolution declaring that there is no crime emergency. "Look, DC has been a cesspool of crime for generations," he said. "Between the self-serving sellouts to corporate bribery, insider trading, and nepotism by members of Congress to the vicious murders by criminal gangs, run amok teenagers, and brutal domestic violence the city has been beset by criminality. It is a generations long way of life. Every member of Congress knows this. Trump is naive to think otherwise. The Constitution gave control over DC to Congress. I implore my colleagues to use our constitutional authority and cancel Trump's takeover by simply declaring that there is no emergency."
Brian Schwalb, attorney general for the District of Columbia, filed a suit asking for a restraining order against the federal intervention, calling it "the gravest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced and an affront to the dignity and autonomy of the 700,000 Americans who call DC home."
The @DCPoliceUnion issued a statement supporting Trump's intervention, saying "crime is spiraling out of control. Immediate action is necessary to restore public safety. The reinforcements the President is bringing are needed. Once safety is sufficiently increased the full reins can be returned to the local police."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the President's action, saying "when Washington has a higher per capita murder rate than places like Islamabad, Bogota, and Mexico City I think most people would see the need for improved law-enforcement. Privileged individuals like Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi have bodyguards paid for by the taxpayers. Most DC residents do not. President Trump is trying to see that citizens get a higher level of protection than they have been getting from the Democrats who run the city. Sane people would regard this as a good thing."
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It's nice to know they at least have a pot to piss in so are not doing without.
I always wondered why the Democrats didn't invert an old campaign slogan while trying to decriminalize drugs and push a new anti-war movement:
Some Pot in every Chicken. I'll go stand in the corner now.
68 square miles with a murder rate in the hundreds. 37 previously-arrested murderers walking the streets today.
Sen Schumer (D-NY) called Trump’s move “unnecessary.”
“I have been in Congress for more than four decades and have always felt perfectly safe. I’ve never been assaulted. I’ve never been carjacked. The notion that taxpayers should have to bear the cost of unneeded troops and FBI agents patrolling what I’ve found to be safe streets is wasteful spending.”
Fox News pointed out that Sen. Schumer has a full-time security detail,
paid for by taxpayers, that accompanies him wherever he goes in DC.
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