Watch Live: Trump presser on DC crime and deploying the National Guard for law enforcement.Sec. 740 of DC HOME RULE ACT: DC IS officially federalized.

[popscottpopscott]

Washington DC is not a state. Unlike "state National Guards", which are typically under a governor’s control unless federalized, the "D.C. National Guard" is always under the authority of the President.
The President delegates this control to the Secretary of Defense, who can then delegate to other military officials (like the Secretary of the Army).
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.. Washington D.C. is not a state, which gives the President more direct control over its law enforcement and National Guard.

Home Rule Act (Section 740): Allows the President to take control of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department during emergencies. Donald Trump invoked this provision in 2025 to federalize the D.C. police and deploy D.C. National Guard troops, despite objections from local leaders. Specifically, it states that if the President determines "special conditions of an emergency nature exist," they can direct the Mayor to provide the MPD for federal use. This control lasts for 48 hours unless the President notifies Congress, in which case it can extend up to 30 days, unless further extended by a joint resolution of Congress.


Did Trump need Congressional approval?
No. As Commander-in-Chief, and due to the special federal status of D.C., the President does not need Congressional approval to deploy the D.C. National Guard. Washington DC is not a state.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Thats what martial law gets you... Too bad we didn't have it on 1/6/21...

Your FEDSURRECTION REICHSTAG FIRE EXCUSE CARD has EXPIRED.
GTFOH

 

[candycorn]

Did Trump need Congressional approval?
No. As Commander-in-Chief, and due to the special federal status of D.C., the President does not need Congressional approval to deploy the D.C. National Guard. Washington DC is not a state.

Somehow on 1/6/21...he had to have approval from Pelosi and the Mayor of DC. At least that was the excuse he gave for not having troops there to contain the vermin he calls his supporters.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Somehow on 1/6/21...he had to have approval from Pelosi and the Mayor of DC. At least that was the excuse he gave for not having troops there to contain the vermin he calls his supporters.

That's on Nancy, and YOU KNOW IT.

 

[candycorn]

That's on Nancy, and YOU KNOW IT.

Well, as your blob is proving now, he didn't need anyone's approval to put the Guard on the ground in DC.

You need to keep your lies straight little man. Now run along.

 

[skews13]

Trump, one of the biggest criminal masterminds in the Country shoots off his yap about crime in D.C. What a joke.

It looks like Dopetard is succeeding in distracting short attention span MAGA dupes like you from his pedo friend Maxwell being transferred to a Texas Club Med. How's her tennis game coming along?

“If he really cared about public safety in D.C., he would release the billion dollars he has held up—and the Republicans have held up—in funding for the local budget. That's all local money that they've put a hold on,” he said. “He would not have pardoned 1,600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office, and he would not have sacked all of these experienced federal prosecutors at the U.S. attorney's office in the Department of Justice and replaced them with literal January 6 participants and lawyers for the January 6 defendants, and other people who are clearly at odds with the actual public safety of people in the District of Columbia.”

The Great Epstein File Distraction gets more desperate by the day.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Well, as your blob is proving now, he didn't need anyone's approval to put the Guard on the ground in DC.

You need to keep your lies straight little man. Now run along.

Spinning, WHIRLING, still descending.
Anyway, the feral freaks in DC are now on notice TODAY.
FAFO MOTHER FUCKERS.

 

[popscottpopscott]

Somehow on 1/6/21...he had to have approval from Pelosi and the Mayor of DC. At least that was the excuse he gave for not having troops there to contain the vermin he calls his supporters.

No candycorn... you are confused.... Trump had instructed Pentagon leaders days before to ensure safety on January 6, but those directives may have been ignored or delayed by senior officials. The President delegates this control to the Secretary of Defense, who can then delegate to other military officials (like the Secretary of the Army). On January 5, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy placed unprecedented restrictions on Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. National Guard, requiring explicit permission for any movement

Transcripts Show President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to "Keep January 6 Safe" Were Deliberately Ignored

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration

cha.house.gov

 

[ColonelAngus]

DC has homeless people living in the middle of roundabouts.

That is bananas.

Just camp out in the middle of the sidewalk. Its cool.

DC looks like one huge REI COOP CONVENTION IS IN TOWN.

https://www.rei.com/c/camping-tents

 

[dudmuck]

Spinning, WHIRLING, still descending.
Anyway, the feral freaks in DC are now on notice TODAY.
FAFO MOTHER FUCKERS.

more distracting from epstein files are you?

 

[SeaMajor7]

Dumb.

 

[dudmuck]

Dumb.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Dumber

 

[Nostra]

LA deployments to cost $134 million and last 60 days, Pentagon says

The cost estimate came during a feisty exchange as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified before the House on Tuesday.

www.defensenews.com

Doesn’t mention they stood around scratching their balls.

Try again.

 

[Nostra]

Crime is down DC. But I'm glad this happening. It has now justified DC becoming a state that will have two Democratic Senators and Congressmen. Which will probably now happen.

So you think we should make them a state just because Dimwingers ran it into the ground to the point it’s not safe to walk the streets?

 

[Hafar1014]

Trump once again has placed democrats in support of crime and not caring about their victims. Is he just smart or are democrats incredibly stupid. Democrats fear they will be exposed as a failure on crime in the cities they control. Blacks will be arrested more than anyone else because they create most of the crime. Democrats cover that up when blacks are the victims of black crime 93% of the time. The destruction of the 2 parent black family is the main cause of crime and poverty and democrats caused that with the welfare state.

 

[candycorn]

No candycorn... you are confused.... Trump had instructed Pentagon leaders days before to ensure safety on January 6, but those directives may have been ignored or delayed by senior officials. The President delegates this control to the Secretary of Defense, who can then delegate to other military officials (like the Secretary of the Army). On January 5, Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy placed unprecedented restrictions on Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. National Guard, requiring explicit permission for any movement

Transcripts Show President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to "Keep January 6 Safe" Were Deliberately Ignored

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration

cha.house.gov

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You’re joking, right?

 

[ColonelAngus]

Miami Police Department was federalized in the 1980s after the Miami River scandal because it was run by a drug cartel and every cop was corrupt.

When the police department has failed the citizens, it is the DUTY OF THE FED TO STEP IN.

Miami River Cops Scandal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[popscottpopscott]

You’re joking, right?

nope...and the fact the guards were authorized by Trump days before but the DC Mayor Bowser and Pelosi's team need to REQUEST the guard before they could step on Capitol grounds. Overseer Pelosi and her ilk , and the Capitol Police were responsible for security at the Capitol... it was their job, no one else's.. they failed... they have the blood of Ashli Babbitt on their hands... J6 should never had been allowed is security was adequate that day..

Let Sund speak for himself while Pelosi piles on the crap
Nancy Pelosi just got RATIO’D by the former Capitol Police Chief after Pelosi LIED and said Trump “delayed” National Guard deployment on J6“When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.”



8/11

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[Clipper]

“If he really cared about public safety in D.C., he would release the billion dollars he has held up—and the Republicans have held up—in funding for the local budget. That's all local money that they've put a hold on,” he said. “He would not have pardoned 1,600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office, and he would not have sacked all of these experienced federal prosecutors at the U.S. attorney's office in the Department of Justice and replaced them with literal January 6 participants and lawyers for the January 6 defendants, and other people who are clearly at odds with the actual public safety of people in the District of Columbia.”

The Great Epstein File Distraction gets more desperate by the day.

And right on cue the MAGA rubes gape at the latest bright shiny object to distract. This week it's D.C., next week it will be something else.

Trump has the dumbasses right under his thumb.