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Yes, not a single city that he uttered was located in a red state......


And people are either too dumb to understand what's going on here, enjoy watching the side show or don't care because trump is the one doing it.

A quick GoogleAI search yielded this:

Here's a more detailed look at some of the cities with high crime rates:
St. Louis, Missouri: This city has the highest homicide rate per 100,000 people, according to Newsweek.
Memphis, Tennessee: Consistently ranks high in violent crime statistics, including homicides.
Baltimore, Maryland: Has a high rate of homicides and other violent crimes.
Detroit, Michigan: Experiences high rates of violent crime, including homicides.
Cleveland, Ohio: A city with a high rate of violent crime, including assault and robbery.
Kansas City, Missouri: Has a high rate of violent crime, particularly in certain neighborhoods.
New Orleans, Louisiana: Has a high homicide rate and also faces challenges with property crime.


Trump won Missouri, Tennessee, Michigan (though it's usually a 'blue' state), Ohio, and Lousiana in 2024. The only one on this list that's in a 'blue' state per the 2024 election is Maryland, which is also the only city mentioned in the part Pit quoted.

And they all have black mayors

I had no idea. That adds a new dimension to things.

Just the presence is a deterrent. More eyes looking.

Would you prefer that they were dressed out in battle gear? Anybody can detain a bad actor. If walking in groups like pictured, they look capable of detaining people. I would also suspect there is an armed officer of some sort in close proximity.

The report also said they won't be armed "in most cases" which means that some will. To me that means in a group of three, two will be unarmed, one will.

I suspect it will depend on what post to which they are assigned. Some carry less risk than others.

I would prefer if they are only being used as a distraction, or a deterrent as you claim, that trump not use our military members in such a fashion. Pretty much like in L.A. They stood around with nothing to do while trump used them as a political tool.

I haven't seen a single Guard member armed in all of the footage I have seen so far. Not a single one.

So who is it you think is going to commit a blatant crime in front of a group of National Guard members? Exactly like a group of cops. So that's your answer? Just flood our cities with National Guard troops so people don't do anything right in front of them? Seriously? Get ready because you'll have to come up with excuses why trump is doing this in other cities. And not only that, but only cities in blue states. And not only that but excuses why he is ignoring to do the same thing with cities that have a higher crime rates in red states.

You have a lot of BS to make excuses for coming your way. You best be getting a head start.

Cold cut: Justice Department fires employee accused of throwing Subway sandwich at federal officer

The suspect, Sean Charles Dunn, was charged with felony assault Wednesday.

A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C., was an employee of the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday.

"I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony," Bondi said in a post on X.

The accused Subway sandwich slinger, Sean Charles Dunn, worked in the international affairs section of the criminal division at the Justice Department, a DOJ source told NBC News.

An attorney for Dunn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The encounter happened Sunday night, when Dunn began beefing with CBP officers who were patrolling near a Subway sandwich shop on U Street, prosecutors said in a court filing. The officers appear to have been in the area as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to ramp up law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

Dunn, who was brandishing what appeared to be a wrapped footlong sandwich from the fast food staple, "stood within inches" of one of the officers, and yelled “F--- you! You f-----g fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city,” the filing said.

A now-viral video shows the suspect then throwing the sandwich at the chest of the officer, who appeared to be wearing bullet proof vest.

Dunn then "attempted to flee on foot" but was quickly apprehended, the filing said.

It also said Dunn acknowledged what he'd done to a D.C. police officer while his arrest was being processed. “I did it. I threw a sandwich,” the filing quotes him as saying.

It’s unclear what kind of sandwich he was carrying. It was described simply as a “sub-style sandwich” in the court filing.

Dunn was hit with the felony charge on Wednesday.

"If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you," Bondi said in her social media post.

She also called Dunn "an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ."

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said in a video statement posted on X Wednesday that the suspect thought the Subway strike "was funny."

“Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer. And we’re going to back the police to the hilt. So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else,” Pirro said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...e-accused-throwing-subway-san-rcna225039



Felony assault? And people who assaulted cops with flag poles, crushing one cops head in a doorway and actually assaulted over 100 cops were pardoned. #trumpsamerica

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maddow-blog-republicans-tout-domestic-154832559.html

I don't normally post from blogs which is why I only used a direct quite from Downing.

I just wanted you to know that I did see some armed National Guard troops yesterday. Which makes things even worse.

I’ll start with this: the guy should be fired and charged. It wasn’t their fault they were ordered to do that.

That being said, the irony of how the admin’s DOJ responded in light of the J6 pardons (including Tarrio and the Oath Keepers guy) is off the charts.

I certainly agree. I'm old enough to remember the way the troops were treated as they came home from the Vietnam war. I found that horrifying. They didn't choose to fight in that war. they were drafted and sent there. These National Guard troops joined to serve our country. They had no idea they would be sent to police American civilians.

My objection is that by no stretch of the imagination was that felony assault. This is nothing but flexing and abusing power. And when you listen to Pirro's quote she makes it quite obvious............

Yeah I find that absolutely mind boggling considering the pardons. What it basically says is “If you assault police, there is zero tolerance…unless you’re doing it for a reason that flatters POTUS, and that includes *checks notes* a 22 year conviction for seditious conspiracy… yeah we can make that go away.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi appoints DEA administrator as 'emergency' D.C. police chief

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back on the order, saying "there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official."

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi further cemented the Trump administration's takeover of D.C. law enforcement Thursday by shifting decision-making authority from its police chief and handing it to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, drawing pushback from the city's mayor.

Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote in a post to X late Thursday that "there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official."

In an interview on Fox News, Bondi had previewed an order by the Justice Department naming DEA head Terry Cole as "emergency police commissioner" of the Metropolitan Police Department, days after President Donald Trump directed the federal government to take control of the local police and deployed the National Guard in an effort to mitigate crime in the nation's capital.

"Effective immediately, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terrence C. Cole shall serve as MPD’s Emergency Police Commissioner for the duration of the emergency declared by the President. Commissioner Cole shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police," the order from the attorney general's office read.

The order means the existing leadership of the D.C. police, including Chief Pamela Smith, will have to receive approval from Cole before issuing any further directives for the department.

Following a meeting with Bondi on Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Smith was serving as "operations lead in working with the federal government and federal forces that will be in the district."

"We are ensuring that our chief of police is the leader and is working with her counterparts that have been named by the president, specifically the director of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Marshals Service, to ensure that any additional officers that we have, and we expect that could range in the hundreds on any given night, will be deployed in the way that helps us drive down violent crime," Bowser, a Democrat, said Tuesday.

But late Thursday, Bowser and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb disputed that Bondi could name Cole as "emergency police commissioner."

In a two-page legal opinion Schwalb wrote to Smith, which the mayor posted on X, the D.C. attorney general says he has reviewed Bondi’s order, and it is his opinion that "the Bondi order is unlawful, and that you are not legally obligated to follow it."

Schwalb on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department. The lawsuit challenges both Trump's initial takeover order and Bondi's Thursday order naming Cole as the emergency police commissioner.

Smith issued an order earlier Thursday allowing local police conducting traffic stops to notify Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents about undocumented immigrants they encounter, a move Trump praised as a "great step" in his effort to "stop crime" in the city.

Despite Smith's directive, Bondi cited on Fox News what she framed as "sanctuary policies" in her decision to supplant the police chief for the duration of Trump's 30-day order.

"They're trying to protect criminal aliens. And what's going to happen if we keep this up, criminals are going to flee to D.C., and we're not going to let that happen," Bondi said. "That's why, at my directive, we have made Terry Cole now the commissioner over the police."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...lice-commissioner-trump-crime-rcna225153

They just keep pushing the envelope.

During the J6 insurrection, Trump said he didn't have the authority to send in the National Guard... Funny, he did it this time.

Damn fool is a liar.. Can't tell if anything he said is true. EVER

Are you F..ing serious... What's with the Epstien Files?

Let me ask you something Peen, Do you excuse the acts of a Pedophile? Come on, DO YOU?

You must because you asked that question.

As for what we are expecting to see, Who knows.. But the very fact the Republicans/MAGAets, don't want it released, tells me they are hiding things . Things that involve children.


You've got damn near every Democrat saying, Release this info,. They don't seem very worried about what we will find.. Maybe Clinton,, Maybe someone else. But republicans are doing about everything they can to hide that info.


Let me throw out a theory.. What if, many of these republicans are being blackmailed by Trump or someone else for instance. Maybe that's why they seem to abandon all reasonable thinking when it comes to trump. Can you imagine for instance if Lindsey Graham was provided young boys for sex acts (recently it was revealed that he is Gay, frankly only a blind idiot didn't already know that) and now they are holding it over him.

Crazy right? Of course its crazy. But what if?

And you wanna know "what is it with the Epstein files"? Yikes

D.C. Police Chief Retains Control of City Police After Court Hearing

After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.

The Trump administration backed off one of its most explicit efforts to take control of the Washington police department on Friday, agreeing before a judge to leave the city’s police chief in charge for now.

Under pressure from Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, who pledged to intervene unless the administration retracted its move to insert an ally as the head of the police department, the Justice Department agreed to rescind part of an order on Thursday that had looked to do just that.

In place of the old order, which had given absolute control over the city’s police department to Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, lawyers hastily drafted a revised version.

The judicial threat and lightning negotiation session that followed presented the first major setback for the Trump administration in its rapid campaign to seize control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital. But they left in place most of the structure of the federal takeover, maintaining less intrusive federal oversight of the police department and leaving federal agents and National Guard members free to continue patrolling Washington streets.

The document agreed to on Friday preserved many elements of the order released on Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondi, including authorizing Mr. Cole to “direct the mayor to immediately provide” law enforcement in pursuit of many of the president’s stated goals, including immigration enforcement and removing homeless people from public spaces.

But it cut out a provision naming Mr. Cole the city’s “emergency police commissioner,” a role that appeared to usurp the authority of Pamela A. Smith, the city’s police chief, to command the force and set its priorities.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city’s attorney general, Brian L. Schwalb, hailed the outcome even as lawyers were still racing inside to make the final revisions to Ms. Bondi’s order.

“The local policing of our city sits with the mayor and the chief of police, notwithstanding the government, the president and the attorney general’s efforts to suggest that they had taken control of our police force and put somebody in to run our police,” Mr. Schwalb said. “I’m very gratified that the judge today recognized that that is flagrantly illegal, that it violates the clear language of the Home Rule Act and that, for all intents and purposes, the chief of police remains the chief of police.”

“My sincere hope is that we don’t have to be back fighting over this issue again,” he added.

On social media, Ms. Bondi attacked Mr. Schwalb, who had sued over the Trump administration’s actions, while taking a softer tone toward Ms. Bowser.

“Unfortunately, the DC Attorney General continues to oppose our efforts to improve public safety in Washington, DC,” she said, adding, “We remain committed to working closely with Mayor Bowser, who is dedicated to ensuring the safety of residents, workers, and visitors in Washington, DC.”

The compromise came shortly after Judge Reyes forcefully encouraged lawyers from both sides to reach a short-term truce that would have the federal government temporarily step back from asserting control over policing the city until the court dives more fully into the details of the case next week.

Judge Reyes, a Biden appointee, made clear that her initial reaction was that the Trump administration had gone far beyond the authorities Congress intended in the 1973 Home Rule law granting the city limited self-governance. She told Yaakov Roth, a lawyer from the Justice Department, that she would block the order Ms. Bondi released on Thursday if the provision elevating Mr. Cole were not removed in negotiations.

Washington’s government sued the Trump administration on Friday, arguing that an executive order issued by President Trump on Monday federalizing the city’s Police Department and the follow-up order by Ms. Bondi “far exceed” the president’s authority under the Home Rule law.

In the emergency hearing on Friday, Judge Reyes said she was focused solely on reaching a truce that could last the weekend. While she said the Trump administration’s broader actions using the Home Rule Act appeared unlawful, she effectively punted any discussion on that point to next week.

Judge Reyes emphasized on Friday that she would need to eventually weigh in on Mr. Trump’s claims that crime in the city had reached a breaking point, after each side could research and present evidence, including crime data and the steps the city has already taken this year to work with federal law enforcement in service of the president’s goals. Statistics show that Washington’s crime rate has been falling recently.

She also noted that courts have not, so far, had occasion to scrutinize the bounds of the law, as no president had tested them until now.

“By the way, do we all agree that I’m fortunate enough to be the first person to rule on this section of the Home Rule Act?” she said. “Uh, huzzah.”

Mitchell Reich, a lawyer representing the District of Columbia, told the judge that the case raised “a nest of novel questions” about federal power that needed to be resolved in a more holistic way.

“Oh, I agree with that,” she said.

While the discussion on Friday was mostly confined to Mr. Cole’s authority, Judge Reyes also clashed with Mr. Roth over what he believed the federal government could actually do with the city’s police once it had federalized the force.

She pushed back on a number of claims Mr. Roth made, including that he could effectively supplant the city’s police chief in setting priorities across the department and steering large numbers of officers into certain neighborhoods or away from their standard work.

Above all, she made clear that she did not believe the law gave the president the power to take control of the city’s police and use the force to pursue objectives that may even violate the city’s own laws and ordinances, like Washington’s law restricting local police cooperation with immigration enforcement.

“It’s antithetical to the notion of home rule,” Mr. Reich said. “Local residents have local control.”

“I agree with you that they’re not allowed to take over the police force, and Mr. Roth, if I gave him truth serum, he’d probably agree,” Judge Reyes said.

After giving lawyers from both sides an hour to make their cases, Judge Reyes stepped away for an hour and a half to let them confer on a resolution to the standoff.

When Mr. Roth returned to confirm that Mr. Cole would assume a more collaborative role for now, and work through the mayor’s office to change the city’s policing policy, she thanked both sides for “very good work on very short notice.”

“I think these are the kind of issues that should be decided between the District and the government, so I’m thankful for you all,” she said. “But again, if I have to step in, I will, OK?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/judge-hearing-dc-home-rule.html

Woops!

Jc

You’d have to be seriously broken to invite fascist thuggery to shoot their redneck mayhem videos in your city.

[quote]Woops![/quote

Woops what?

I see this as two sides meeting an agreement. At least temporary.

In the end, the Feds can take over in DC. It's a district, not a state. They ran it for 150 years.

Even the Judge was happy she didn't have to rule.

I don't care who runs it as long as the Capitol of the USA is run well. Crime is high and the wokesters don't seem to be doing much to correct the problem.

Now maybe they will. I hope so.

Hmmmmmm.....

Mississippi is sending National Guard troops to Washington D.C. Meanwhile several cities in Mississippi have higher crime rates, specifically murder rates, than Washington, D.C. Jackson, Mississippi, has a significantly higher homicide rate than D.C., with a rate of about 78 per 100,000 people compared to D.C.'s 25.5. Additionally, other cities in Mississippi, like Greenville, have also reported higher crime rates than the nation's capital.

Sure Peen, that's what the trump administration is known for. Compromise. They sat down and sang Kumbaya with D.C. officials.

interesting...

Every few years Washington DC makes a push for statehood.

They now have a reason.

Republicans will be totally against it, as it would add 2 more D's to the senate.

DC has more people than Vermont and Wyoming.

Sorry man, that is idiotic...not saying you are. NYC has more people living in the city than many states. Should they become a state?

Washington DC restaurants suffer sharp drop in diners since Trump crackdown

Eating out drops by up to 31% amid federal takeover of policing that Democrats call ‘stunt’ to distract from Epstein

The number of people eating at restaurants in Washington DC has plummeted since Donald Trump deployed federal troops to the city, according to data, as the president’s purported crackdown on crime continues.

Research by Open Table found that restaurant attendance was down every day last week compared with 2024, with the number of diners dipping by 31% on Wednesday, two days after Trump ordered the national guard to patrol Washington.

Trump announced the move on 11 August, claiming that Washington had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people”. His claims contradicted official statistics which show that violent crime in the capital is at a 30-year low.

Data from Open Table shows that the number of people making online reservations dropped by 16% on Monday compared with the previous year. The number fell by 27% on Tuesday and 31% on Wednesday, as military vehicles and armed troops were deployed to the city.

Metropolitan Washington Summer Restaurant week in 2024 was from 12 to 18 August. The 2025 edition of the event, during which diners are generally offered premium experiences at more affordable prices than usual, began on Monday. The data did not immediately make clear to what extent that may have factored into the year-to-year drop.

On Friday, Democrats introduced a joint resolution to end what they described as “egregious attacks on DC home rule”, stating that Trump was overreaching in his actions in Washington.

The Democratic US congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland issued a statement saying Trump’s decision to send the military into the nation’s capital was meant to distract the public from the president’s “close friendship” with the late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Raskin’s statement also alluded to broken promises from the Trump administration to fully divulge all files pertaining to the prosecutions of Epstein and his associate, the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

“The only emergency here is a lawless president experiencing a growing public relations emergency because of his … stubborn refusal to release the Epstein file despite his promise to do so,” Raskin’s statement said.

Other Democrats echoed the sentiment that Trump’s move was an attempt to distract from criticism over Epstein and an economy that was struggling amid the passage of his congressional agenda bill, which included a historic $1tn cut to Medicaid.

“What’s happening here in Washington DC is just a stunt. Donald Trump didn’t like the fact that the walls were closing in on him, that his own base was questioning why he wouldn’t release the Epstein files, why he was protecting very powerful people,” Chris Murphy, the US senator from Connecticut, told NBC on Sunday.

“He didn’t want to talk any more about the fact that our healthcare system is about to collapse because of the cuts that they have made, that premiums are going to go up by 75% on Americans. And so true to form, he just decided to create a new news cycle.”

Murphy added: “He’s just trying to distract from the stories he doesn’t want Americans to be talking about.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/trump-washington-dc-national-guard-restaurants

Trump claims DC dining surge without sufficient evidence after his takeover of DC police

https://wtop.com/dc/2025/08/restaur...lowing-federal-takeover-of-police-force/

Same as it ever was.......

I get what you're saying. I really do. But we both know there's a huge difference here. D.C. has the only large portion of citizens that have no representation in congress. They do have a "non voting" delegate with no power to vote for the people but that's the very definition of a token with no power. As was mentioned, a higher population than at least two states whose citizens do have voting members of congress to represent them.

We also know this is yet another political football. There should be no large group of citizens that have no voting members in congress. That's something we should both be able to agree on. But that is the way this entire thing was set up and it would take congress to change that.

As such the democrats want it changed to give them another vote in congress. Republicans don't want it changed because they don't want the democrats to have another vote in congress.

Meanwhile we have a group of citizens with zero power to be represented by their own government. Every other city in the nation is part of a state and as such has that representation. That's the difference and that's a huge difference. In fact it was a huge difference to our forefathers and an integral part of why we became a nation in the first place.......................

"Taxation without representation is tyranny."

Are these the same stat sources that we declared were cooked prior to the Feds taking over?

In their zeal to blame the D.C. police Chief for forcing the police to file lower charges to skew the numbers, they forgot how that works. The police do not decide what charges an alleged criminal faces.

In the United States legal system, the responsibility for deciding what charges a person faces in court rests primarily with the prosecuting attorney.

The Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory revolved around a US military training exercise in 2015, which some individuals speculated was a covert operation to institute martial law in certain states, particularly Texas. These conspiracy theorists claimed the exercise was a pretext for the federal government, under President Obama, to establish martial law and deploy troops on American streets, according to The Texas Tribune.................

Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says

Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism. A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/0...e-texas-was-fueled-russians-former-cia-/

When they believed Russian propaganda that Obama may deploy troops on the streets of America they were outraged and alarmed.

When trump actually does it they support it. Only it isn't Russia that's feeding them the propaganda this time. It's just one of Putin's buddies.

C'mon ... Back in the day Obama wearing a beige suit was front line Faux News for a whole week. They'd spontaneously combust if Biden or Obama had done a tenth of the crappolla Drumf has pulled.

j/c:

As trump says Biden 50 times a day.

Hilarious by virtue of being incredibly weak. 🤣

And that's the best thing they've managed to come up with since trump came down the escalator in 2015.

National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties

The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.

As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia. The assignment was atypical for these troops, who more often are called on to respond to emergencies or deploy overseas, and it left some questioning if landscaping should be a military mission at all.

“I think it’s nice, as a D.C. resident,” said one Guard member. “But there are different things we could be doing.”

More than 2,200 troops, some from as far away as Mississippi and Louisiana, have been deployed in D.C. since Trump’s declaration of a “crime emergency” here. Ostensibly, they were mobilized to support federal law enforcement and local police, but in recent days those orders have expanded to encompass “beautification” tasks such as trash removal and groundskeeping around the National Mall and other federal property. Service members may work on removing graffiti, too.

Typically, custodial work like this falls to the National Park Service, which was already facing staffing shortfalls when the Trump administration this spring directed additional cuts as it gutted the federal workforce. The service used to have 200 people assigned to maintain thousands of acres of trees and gardens in D.C., and now there are 20, a Park Service official told The Post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...g-duties/ar-AA1LjbtW?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

My neighbor two doors down is in the ANG. I’m going to tell him to put my trash cans out tonight so he can prepare for any potential deployment.

Trump is a dick tater.