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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Some dictator, hasn’t even arrested a single journalist.
Someone please tell these people to STFU. We have heard enough of their crap.
“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 ...
Van Hollen should be jailed. He is threatening an insurrection.
Wake us up when he invades Poland.
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.
Van Hollen would change his tune if he became a crime victim.
I don't care who y'are, that there's funny!
No one cares what democrats think about anything - they’re out of power, out of ideas, and out begging on the street.
Again with “their democracy”…
Yes, I am calling for an end to “their democracy”.
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.
OMG!!! Free and Fair elections and citizen based census for congressional districting is going to cause CIVIL WAR!!!!! OH NOES!!!!!
I thought Van Halen passed away.
Van Hollen sides with the deep state criminals to call their thuggish and thieving form of government Democracy.
Good. Democracy sucks.
What’s Trump doing? Trying to put his political opponent in prison?
They can shove their “democracy” up their smelly Obama.
A benign Dictator, unlike the malevolent Auto-Pen Usurper they handed US.
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