Is trump about to occupy DC?

[Crepitus]

Washington is President Trump's capital city.

Quelling the disturbances there is a lot easier and less expensive than moving the capital to Florida.

The hope is that Washington will soon be as safe as other capitals like Tokyo and Pyongyang

It's a trial run for a "pacification" program.

 

[Crepitus]

/----/ Trump is planning LAW AND ORDER, you buffoon.

tRump doesn't know what those words mean, Chump.

 

[Auld Phart]

tRump doesn't know what those words mean, Chump.

probably better than you.


(but that's not saying much)

 

[Crepitus]

And another thing, i remember being assured that Nancy Pelosi was the only ne who could call out the guard for DC.

What happened to that?

 

[Crepitus]

probably better than you.


(but that's not saying much)

Lol, no.

Just no.

 

[Auld Phart]

Lol, no.

Just no.

 

[theHawk]

This "truth" social post has an ominous tone:

View attachment 1147597

WTF is he planning?

He is planning on making the streets safe again from all the thugs you lefties keep allowing back out on the streets.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Are dembots just finding out DC is a federal district?

They have no clue.

 

[Crepitus]

August 11, 2025
Press Release
Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.:

“In another transparent ploy to distract America from his coverup of the Epstein file, Donald Trump now wants to militarize the District of Columbia to attack crime and clean up graffiti in the capital city despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low in Washington and graffiti seems to be pretty sparse. It is at least heartening to have the President recognize what was obvious to the world on January 6, 2021, which is that he has the authority to call up the National Guard in Washington, D.C. On that day, Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders were literally begging Trump to deploy the Guard to put down the rampaging mob violence that he had incited against Congress, Vice-President Mike Pence and Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police and Montgomery County Police officers (among others) fighting to defend the Capitol. However, this action is four-and-a-half years late and obviously nonsensical today.

“No one in Washington is asking Trump to deploy the National Guard or take over the MPD. This is a phony, manufactured crisis if I’ve ever seen one.

“Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly undermined public safety in our nation’s capital. On his first day, without consulting District leaders or the hundreds of police victims, Trump pardoned and released from prisons and jails 1,600 individuals who participated in the worst mass domestic violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and D.C.’s local police in American history, including several hundreds convicted of beating cops. Then he began firing D.C.’s most experienced career violent crime prosecutors simply because they had prosecuted the cop-beating January 6 insurrectionists whom Trump pardoned. He has named January 6 participants, pro-insurrectionist conspiracy theorists, and election deniers to run the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., the Justice Department, and the FBI.

“In a textbook authoritarian maneuver, the President now invokes emergency powers to militarize the seat of government and override the authority and decisions of D.C.’s elected officials. He of course does nothing to address the statehood petition of the District’s disenfranchised population of 700,000 taxpaying American citizens.

“To be clear, this escalation has nothing to do with fighting crime. President Trump has made clear that he would like to expand these efforts beyond the Capital City, to take over American cities like Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore, where his constitutional and legal authority would be even more dubious.

“I will be introducing a Resolution in the House, pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, to reverse this plainly ridiculous state of local emergency and restore full home rule powers to the Mayor, Council and people of the District of Columbia.”

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin’s Statement on President Trump’s Unprecedented Takeover of Local Police in Washington, D.C.

 

[struth]

August 11, 2025
Press Release
Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.:

“In another transparent ploy to distract America from his coverup of the Epstein file, Donald Trump now wants to militarize the District of Columbia to attack crime and clean up graffiti in the capital city despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low in Washington and graffiti seems to be pretty sparse. It is at least heartening to have the President recognize what was obvious to the world on January 6, 2021, which is that he has the authority to call up the National Guard in Washington, D.C. On that day, Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders were literally begging Trump to deploy the Guard to put down the rampaging mob violence that he had incited against Congress, Vice-President Mike Pence and Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police and Montgomery County Police officers (among others) fighting to defend the Capitol. However, this action is four-and-a-half years late and obviously nonsensical today.

“No one in Washington is asking Trump to deploy the National Guard or take over the MPD. This is a phony, manufactured crisis if I’ve ever seen one.

“Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly undermined public safety in our nation’s capital. On his first day, without consulting District leaders or the hundreds of police victims, Trump pardoned and released from prisons and jails 1,600 individuals who participated in the worst mass domestic violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and D.C.’s local police in American history, including several hundreds convicted of beating cops. Then he began firing D.C.’s most experienced career violent crime prosecutors simply because they had prosecuted the cop-beating January 6 insurrectionists whom Trump pardoned. He has named January 6 participants, pro-insurrectionist conspiracy theorists, and election deniers to run the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., the Justice Department, and the FBI.

“In a textbook authoritarian maneuver, the President now invokes emergency powers to militarize the seat of government and override the authority and decisions of D.C.’s elected officials. He of course does nothing to address the statehood petition of the District’s disenfranchised population of 700,000 taxpaying American citizens.

“To be clear, this escalation has nothing to do with fighting crime. President Trump has made clear that he would like to expand these efforts beyond the Capital City, to take over American cities like Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore, where his constitutional and legal authority would be even more dubious.

“I will be introducing a Resolution in the House, pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, to reverse this plainly ridiculous state of local emergency and restore full home rule powers to the Mayor, Council and people of the District of Columbia.”

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin’s Statement on President Trump’s Unprecedented Takeover of Local Police in Washington, D.C.

I wish you dems were this concerned about Epstein when he was donating to the party and raping girls

Instead you all turned a blind eye.

 

[Auld Phart]

August 11, 2025
Press Release
Washington, D.C. (August 11, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced he would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.:

“In another transparent ploy to distract America from his coverup of the Epstein file, Donald Trump now wants to militarize the District of Columbia to attack crime and clean up graffiti in the capital city despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low in Washington and graffiti seems to be pretty sparse. It is at least heartening to have the President recognize what was obvious to the world on January 6, 2021, which is that he has the authority to call up the National Guard in Washington, D.C. On that day, Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders were literally begging Trump to deploy the Guard to put down the rampaging mob violence that he had incited against Congress, Vice-President Mike Pence and Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police and Montgomery County Police officers (among others) fighting to defend the Capitol. However, this action is four-and-a-half years late and obviously nonsensical today.

“No one in Washington is asking Trump to deploy the National Guard or take over the MPD. This is a phony, manufactured crisis if I’ve ever seen one.

“Since taking office, Trump has repeatedly undermined public safety in our nation’s capital. On his first day, without consulting District leaders or the hundreds of police victims, Trump pardoned and released from prisons and jails 1,600 individuals who participated in the worst mass domestic violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and D.C.’s local police in American history, including several hundreds convicted of beating cops. Then he began firing D.C.’s most experienced career violent crime prosecutors simply because they had prosecuted the cop-beating January 6 insurrectionists whom Trump pardoned. He has named January 6 participants, pro-insurrectionist conspiracy theorists, and election deniers to run the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., the Justice Department, and the FBI.

“In a textbook authoritarian maneuver, the President now invokes emergency powers to militarize the seat of government and override the authority and decisions of D.C.’s elected officials. He of course does nothing to address the statehood petition of the District’s disenfranchised population of 700,000 taxpaying American citizens.

“To be clear, this escalation has nothing to do with fighting crime. President Trump has made clear that he would like to expand these efforts beyond the Capital City, to take over American cities like Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore, where his constitutional and legal authority would be even more dubious.

“I will be introducing a Resolution in the House, pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, to reverse this plainly ridiculous state of local emergency and restore full home rule powers to the Mayor, Council and people of the District of Columbia.”

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin’s Statement on President Trump’s Unprecedented Takeover of Local Police in Washington, D.C.

despite the fact that crime is at a 30-year low in Washington and graffiti seems to be pretty sparse.

crime was at a lower rate during his first term than it is now, and went back up under BIden.

DC Crime Data and Stats - Crime Data and statistics for Washington, DC 2013-2024

www.crimedatadc.com

 

[Crepitus]

I wish you dems were this concerned about Epstein when he was donating to the party and raping girls

Instead you all turned a blind eye.

Oh look, a deflection.

What a surprise.

 

[Auld Phart]

crime was at a lower rate during his first term than it is now, and went back up under BIden.

DC Crime Data and Stats - Crime Data and statistics for Washington, DC 2013-2024

www.crimedatadc.com

how is it fake news, crep?

 

[struth]

Oh look, a deflection.

What a surprise

What am I deflecting from? You are the one that brought up Dem donor Elstein

 

[saveliberty]

Given that crime went up dramatically the last time Trump was in office, and that it took Joe Biden to bring DOWN the national crime and murder rate the last time Trump was President, what makes you think that Trump will do anything to bring the crime rate down in DC?

FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave

Annual figures released Tuesday reflect a 4.5% year-on-year decrease in all violent crime nationally in 2024

www.theguardian.com

Trump keeps decrying rampant crime. Here’s how his misleading claim has shifted. (Published 2024)

Former President Donald J. Trump insists that the United States under a Democratic administration is lawless and violent. The facts show otherwise.

www.nytimes.com

U.S. sees sharp decline in murders and other crimes in 2024

The number of murders in the U.S. is declining at a rapid pace. While crime was a central focus of the election, with President-elect Trump alleging it was out of control in many cities, other crimes also saw declines. William Brangham discussed what the data tells us with Jeff Asher, the...

www.pbs.org

Trump Now Citing Murder Stats He Used to Dismiss as 'Fake News' - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump recently boasted that the nation's murder rate has "plummeted by 28%" since he took office. Data supplied by local police departments do show the nation's murder rate is dropping, as it has been for several years. Notably, Trump now seems comfortable with crime data that...

www.factcheck.org

2023 was the highest, Biden was president.

 

[Orangecat]

WTF is he planning?

Cleaning up the crime in DC.

 

[saveliberty]

Historical DC Crime Totals (2013-2024)​

Homicide

Motor Vehicle Theft

Assault w/Dangerous Weapon

Theft/Other

Theft from Auto

Robbery

Burglary

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Offense​

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[th]

2013​

[/th][th]

2014​

[/th][th]

2015​

[/th][th]

2016​

[/th][th]

2017​

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2018​

[/th][th]

2019​

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2020​

[/th][th]

2021​

[/th][th]

2022​

[/th][th]

2023​

[/th][th]

2024​

[/th]​

[td]

104​

[/td][td]

105​

[/td][td]

160​

[/td][td]

136​

[/td][td]

116​

[/td][td]

160​

[/td][td]

164​

[/td][td]

195​

[/td][td]

224​

[/td][td]

200​

[/td][td]

273​

[/td][td]

187​

[/td]​

[td]

2,667​

[/td][td]

3,120​

[/td][td]

2,905​

[/td][td]

2,691​

[/td][td]

2,409​

[/td][td]

2,399​

[/td][td]

2,186​

[/td][td]

3,258​

[/td][td]

3,477​

[/td][td]

3,739​

[/td][td]

6,773​

[/td][td]

5,126​

[/td]​

[td]

2,397​

[/td][td]

2,476​

[/td][td]

2,392​

[/td][td]

2,268​

[/td][td]

1,848​

[/td][td]

1,670​

[/td][td]

1,571​

[/td][td]

1,632​

[/td][td]

1,660​

[/td][td]

1,381​

[/td][td]

1,399​

[/td][td]

1,027​

[/td]​

[td]

12,892​

[/td][td]

14,632​

[/td][td]

14,245​

[/td][td]

14,556​

[/td][td]

14,496​

[/td][td]

14,204​

[/td][td]

15,570​

[/td][td]

10,927​

[/td][td]

10,895​

[/td][td]

10,774​

[/td][td]

13,243​

[/td][td]

12,968​

[/td]​

[td]

10,181​

[/td][td]

11,339​

[/td][td]

11,298​

[/td][td]

12,167​

[/td][td]

10,275​

[/td][td]

11,638​

[/td][td]

10,731​

[/td][td]

8,276​

[/td][td]

8,664​

[/td][td]

7,792​

[/td][td]

7,715​

[/td][td]

6,648​

[/td]​

[td]

3,987​

[/td][td]

3,280​

[/td][td]

3,346​

[/td][td]

2,980​

[/td][td]

2,177​

[/td][td]

2,027​

[/td][td]

2,233​

[/td][td]

1,997​

[/td][td]

2,034​

[/td][td]

2,080​

[/td][td]

3,456​

[/td][td]

2,104​

[/td]​

[td]

3,358​

[/td][td]

3,185​

[/td][td]

2,541​

[/td][td]

2,123​

[/td][td]

1,532​

[/td][td]

1,417​

[/td][td]

1,275​

[/td][td]

1,441​

[/td][td]

1,174​

[/td][td]

1,050​

[/td][td]

1,090​

[/td][td]

1,000​

[/td]​

 

[Auld Phart]

The District has had steadily declining crime rates for 30 years.

The District has had steadily declining crime rates for 30 years.

they wet down nder trump, back up under Biden,

DC Crime Data and Stats - Crime Data and statistics for Washington, DC 2013-2024

www.crimedatadc.com

 

[dudmuck]

Cleaning up the crime in DC.

 

[Orangecat]

Again proving that libtards can't meme.