This is just a bunch of bs. I’m sorry I live in DC. Miller is simply making stuff up. I mean I do believe DC is marginally safer now. But this version of DC where moms are coming out of their bunkers for the first time and everyone is rapturous is just a lie. It’s not a small one… https://t.co/7PkMF0PJ9q
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 26, 2025
On second reading, I realized that Goldberg meant "I'm sorry but I live in D.C." Evidently, crime is not not quite as bad in the District as Trump, Steve Miller, et al. claim because
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
Assigning members of the Guard to do work that in many jurisdictions is typically done by prisoners or offenders serving a sentence of probation is a misuse of their training and skills and makes them feel like volunteers or criminals being punished. However, on a positive note, these Guard members are not being called to perform police work, for which they are untrained.
Quite the national emergency the President has declared. Had crime there recently spiked or even been on a steady incline over the past few years, the executive order the President signed directed the Attorney General to address "the crime emergency and ensure public order and safety." Despite the many cynics- especially conservatives, but also moderates and even liberals- the reality that violent crime has declined in the District is no insignificant matter.
The declaration of emergency is akin to the President's contention that economically, other countries are "robbing us blind." While Trump frequently complains about himself being the victim, he periodically whines about the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth being taken advantage of. And now, we are being "robbed":
If I didn't win this election, this country was gone- I'm telling you- economically, it was gone. None of these things we're talking about would have happened and the shole world was robbing us blind. Friend and foe, they were stealing our jobs, our money, our factories. They were stealing everything. We would have been a shell. We would have been a bankrupt, broken shell.
Without him, he's lecturing, the country economically "was gone," a falsehood that nonetheless could claimed as a pretext for doing- well, whatever he chose to do. And so now, in a different context, the President has established "specialized units" in the National Guard, specifically rained and equipped to deal with public order issues." CNN finds this "the clearest sign yet he intends to expand the US military's role in domestic law enforcement activities across the country."
After fewer than two months into this term, the President threatened to decrease funding for colleges which permitted what he termed "illegal" protests and deport foreign-born students who participated in them. And soon, "public order" Foreign students- for now.
He isn't entitled to any action he wishes to take- constitutionally. However, he has vowed not to let that stop him.
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." pic.twitter.com/CR2T6Srb5C
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2025
"If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it," saith the President. There need not be an emergency or the USA in crisis. He himself need only believe (or say) that the country is in danger- as it always is to some degree- from crime, protests, foreign enemies, the economy, or anything. Or nothing. As Steve Schmidt says (at 7:50), "There's a tank on a street near you- or maybe it's just coming to you soon. But it's coming."
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