He is centralising his grip on DC. This is very concerning.
Someone should bus them all to Trump tower or Mar a Lardo
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The legal definition of an emergency is sufficiently vague that this is probably legal, even with crime factually being down in DC, but the idea of using the national guard for ordinary police enforcement should be scary to everyone.
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Seeing as he is enraging his base (Epstein), having some recollection over the weaponry they have, and what they are capable of (1/6), fortifying the whole city against enemies both foreign and domestic seems wise, especially from a complete dolt.
It’s also worth remembering that legally the relationship between (President and DC National Guard) is the same as (Governor and National Guard) in the states and territories due to the District’s constitutional status as territory of the federal government.
I didn’t realize at first that he isn’t just sending in the national guard, but has also become the first President to take control of the DC police.
This article claims Trump is removing the homeless because he didn’t like seeing them on the way to the golf course
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I once dated a Venezuelan woman who went to high school with a bunch of children of OPEC folks. Some of her classmates wanted the government to build walls along the highway so that they wouldn’t have to see poor people when driving from the Caracas airport to their gated communities. That wouldn’t have solved the problem that Caracas is, or at least was when I was there, filled with incredible juxtapositions of extreme wealth and extreme poverty. But hey, if you hide a problem, it doesn’t exist, right?
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While I have no doubt this was one likely reason, when you have a highway from airport to city flanked by favelas, you basically get a shooting gallery.
Very, very dangerous. Rio ended up having to put up walls around the highway from the airport for that reason (shots were being fired at cars)
Caracas is one of the few places that scares Brazilians because its just so dangerous.
Rio even has an app to track shootings now:
This will be the economic lynchpin that sets of the real authoritarian chaos.
Obviously fake news by prior government.
“My new crime counter, McGruff, will change those numbers to higher ones, maybe lower future ones because criminals are scared of me…”
Harvard’s going to capitulate.
WSJ gift link: Harvard, Trump Administration Near Deal for $500 Million Settlement - WSJ
US Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 5:
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Meanwhile, Trump administration:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the recent deal to allow Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to resume lower-end AI chip sales to China, on the condition they give the US government a 15% cut of the related revenue, could serve as a model for others.
“I think we could see it in other industries over time,” Bessent said Wednesday in a television interview on . “Right now, this is unique, but now that we have the model and the beta test, why not expand it?”
GOP constitutional conservatives generally agree that the constitution does not apply to Dear Leader.
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Right.
In this case, someone “with standing” has to sue to get a court ruling. Who has standing? Will that party sue Dear Leader?
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Let’s say somebody challenges their tax and it goes to SCOTUS. SCOTUS overturns the tax and mandates that the government has to pay all the money back to the companies covered under that taxation policy. Cool.
So then the Trump admin goes and shakes down the oil & gas industry. And maybe that works its way up to SCOTUS over the next year. And maybe it’s slapped down.
But there’s never any consequence. Just spin up the next series of illegal actions, by the time the courts shut it down we’ll be two more steps ahead.
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