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Senate Democrat: Trump ‘playing dictator,’ pushing democracy to ‘brink’
The Hill ^ | 8/11/25 | Miriam Waldvogel

Posted on 08/13/2025 7:15:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) accused President Trump of a “raw authoritarian power grab” after the president moved to federalize the District of Columbia’s police department and call the National Guard to the District’s streets.

“He’s playing dictator in our nation’s capital as a dress rehearsal as he pushes democracy to the brink,” Van Hollen wrote on social platform X.

“And by the way, Trump couldn’t care less about safety in DC or the people of DC. If he did, he wouldn’t have blocked DC from spending $1 billion of its OWN money to fund its OWN police department, schools and more,” the Maryland senator added, referring to a government funding bill that blocked the District from spending already-appropriated funds. “This is flatly about testing the limits of his power.”

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KEYWORDS: agitprop; chrisvanhollen; districtofcolumbia; leftistsource; maryland; miriamwaldvogel; thehill; theshill; trump; vanhollen
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To: DallasBiff

Bkmk


21 posted on 08/13/2025 7:39:02 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: gundog

:)


22 posted on 08/13/2025 7:40:47 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: DallasBiff

Some dictator, hasn’t even arrested a single journalist.


23 posted on 08/13/2025 7:42:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Someone please tell these people to STFU. We have heard enough of their crap.


24 posted on 08/13/2025 7:42:30 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Senate Democrat: Trump ‘playing dictator,’ pushing democracy to ‘brink’”

anything that negatively impacts their constituency of criminals, thugs, gangbangers, bums and other “street people” will ALWAYS be opposed by Democrats ...


25 posted on 08/13/2025 7:48:52 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: DallasBiff

Van Hollen should be jailed. He is threatening an insurrection.


26 posted on 08/13/2025 8:00:54 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: DallasBiff
Pushing democracy to the brink? Well, you guys keep saying he's Hitler, so why is this news?

Wake us up when he invades Poland.

27 posted on 08/13/2025 8:01:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: cuz1961

I’d say let’s all turn this into a game and take a shot every time democrats say ‘threat to democracy’ but we’d all be wasted before 12:30pm.


28 posted on 08/13/2025 8:07:55 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: DallasBiff

Van Hollen would change his tune if he became a crime victim.


29 posted on 08/13/2025 8:18:29 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Cobra64
This jerk has zero self awareness. Someone should tell him he’s a flaming asshole.

I don't care who y'are, that there's funny!

30 posted on 08/13/2025 8:27:24 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

No one cares what democrats think about anything - they’re out of power, out of ideas, and out begging on the street.


31 posted on 08/13/2025 8:31:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat-Superman joined ICE)
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To: DallasBiff

Again with “their democracy”…

Yes, I am calling for an end to “their democracy”.


32 posted on 08/13/2025 8:47:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DallasBiff

Before 1973 DC was under the control of the US Congress. It was designed to be a mini-Switzerland...not taking sides with either political party.


33 posted on 08/13/2025 9:03:32 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: DallasBiff

OMG!!! Free and Fair elections and citizen based census for congressional districting is going to cause CIVIL WAR!!!!! OH NOES!!!!!


34 posted on 08/13/2025 9:09:46 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: DallasBiff

I thought Van Halen passed away.


35 posted on 08/13/2025 9:28:37 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: DallasBiff

Van Hollen sides with the deep state criminals to call their thuggish and thieving form of government Democracy.


36 posted on 08/13/2025 9:44:34 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: DallasBiff

Good. Democracy sucks.


37 posted on 08/13/2025 9:56:05 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: DallasBiff

What’s Trump doing? Trying to put his political opponent in prison?


38 posted on 08/13/2025 9:57:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: DallasBiff

They can shove their “democracy” up their smelly Obama.


39 posted on 08/13/2025 9:58:31 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please pray for my brother Ken)
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To: DallasBiff

A benign Dictator, unlike the malevolent Auto-Pen Usurper they handed US.


40 posted on 08/13/2025 2:05:00 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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