By Michael Woyton
The felon’s plan to take over the District of Columbia’s law enforcement isn’t just a distraction — #EpsteinFiles — though it comes at a pretty damn convenient time.
Think of the amount of irony there was Monday during a news conference led by a president who himself is a walking crime statistic and was joined by an alcoholic who was been accused of sexual assault, another person who caught driving 119 mph and yet another who took a $25,000 illegal political contribution from the president’s family foundation.
With that scene set, President Donald J. Felon announced the federal government was taking over the Washington, D.C., police department and would deploy National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, ABC News said.
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He said it was “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back.”
To put all this in motion, the adjudicated rapist declared a public safety emergency.
Despite year-to-date crime comparisons showing that overall crime in Washington was down 7 percent, with violent crime down 26 percent and property crime down by 5 percent, the cheating golfer said the capital “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”
For all his bluster about “violent gangs” and “roving mobs of wild youth,” the decision to federalize the police force of the nation’s capital is more than likely because President TACO was upset that one of Elon Musk’s early DOGE hires — Edward “Big Balls” Coristine — was beaten up by a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl in, what police said, was an unarmed carjacking Aug. 4, NBC Washington reported.
The two teens are being held in juvenile detention and another person seen on surveillance is being sought as a person of interest.
Trump’s chest-thumping is only a temporary effort, unless he finds an excuse to up the ante.
According to Politico, D.C.’s Home Rule Act allows a president to use D.C. police for up to 48 hours or up to 30 days if a special message is sent to certain congressional committees.
Any longer that 30 days will require authorization from Congress.
The president does have authority over the National Guard in the District of Columbia.
That he chose to deploy the guard in August 2025 instead of Jan. 6, 2021, when there was an actual riot and attempted takeover of Capitol Hill is the real puzzler.
Oh right. He was more than OK with what the now-pardoned rioters were doing back in 2021. And the District of Columbia is more than 40 percent Black and overwhelmingly Democratic.
There is no doubt in my mind that this latest stunt is strictly an authoritarian move — something he’s lusted for since his first administration.
And if it works in Washington, D.C., he may try out in other parts of the country.
Coupled with the executive order that allows people who are unhoused or have mental health or substance abuse problems to be swept off the streets and institutionalized against their will, this nation could be going further away from having a free democratic society.
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