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Trump Orders National Guard Into Washington, Takes Over D.C. Police

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by FrontRunner, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM.

  1. FrontRunner

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    Trump orders National Guard into Washington and takes over DC police: Live updates

    President Donald Trump said the federal government will take control of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.
    Joey GarrisonTom Vanden BrookCybele Mayes-OstermanJosh MeyerSwapna Venugopal RamaswamySudiksha KochiSarah D. Wire
    USA TODAY

    WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said he will deploy National Guard troops to Washington D.C., as part of an aggressive federal effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.

    "We're taking our capital back," Trump said August 11. "We're taking it back."

    Trump said the federal government would also take control of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department.

    "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse," Trump said. "This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back."

    Trump in an earlier social media post on Aug. 10 said that the homeless in D.C. "have to move out, IMMEDIATELY," but he did not elaborate on how that will be accomplished.


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    Trump suggests crime crackdown could extend to other US cities
    Trump seemed to suggest he could later pursue federal intervention to combat crime in places like Chicago and Los Angeles.

    “We’re not going to lose our cities over this,” Trump said as he railed against what he called rising crime rates. “And this will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick, very quickly.”
     
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    Its just good business for Trump to have control of the MPD prior to staging the next anti-democratic insurection.

    Too many cooks in the kitchen when you're setting up something like that.
     
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  5. JuanValdez

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    Had he done this in his first term, maybe his coup could have worked.
     
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    DC Is suppose to be an A-Politial Zone
    In fact . . this is why it has no Voting power

    If he can do this
    then DC STATEHOOD should be on the agenda

    Rocket River
     
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  7. dobro1229

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    Seems like it should be illegal and the Supreme Court should be weighing in here at some point.

    Regardless its pretty Fascistic to the core. But all you MAGA nuts voted for this guy when he literally campaigned on being a dictator. So I would expect nothing but praise here from the normal MAGA cultists since they voted for this.

    But we all know its just a distraction from the fact that Trump is in the Epstein Files and out in the open working to cover it up by helping out one of the most notorious pedophiles in our history.
     
  8. peleincubus

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    Let's get it boys!

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    I got to say it again Worst Potus Ever
     
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    Now we learn that the crime stats were being manipulated by the police commander... WOW. But not a surprise, given the corrupt nature of DC.

    "A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint," local NBC 4 Washington reports. "The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year."


    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katie...ander-was-cooking-the-books-on-crime-n2661676
     
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    I keep asking this question periodically and nobody wants to answer so I'll ask again:

    Question for the MAGA supporters:

    WHY IS A FASCISTIC CORRUPT AUTOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BETTER FOR ME THAN A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT??


    @Astrodome @bigtexxx @Space Ghost @ostrig @raining threes
     
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    Isn’t this what MAGAts say we need the 2nd amendment for? To fight back against a tyrannical government? Isn’t this what they dream of when they cosplay as soldiers and freedom fighters?

    If this doesn’t wake up the Democratic party, Idk what will. U shouldn’t be thinking about gerrymandering your states, u should be actively doing it. If they try to arrest the TX Dems in Chicago, u absolutely do not let it happen. If u ever get back in power, u put somebody in place who will aggressively prosecute these MAGAt traitors and throw them underneath the jail. U don’t sit on your ass while someone like Merrick Garland does nothing. U tell these red states that if they can’t keep religion and Trump bibles out of school, they don’t receive any funding.

    time to fight fire with fire and stop trying to play a different game…there’s new rules now, either accept them and try to score, or continue losing
     
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    The disinfo about this will come in a tsunami. Every video over the last 40 years of any kind of riot or protest in any city anywhere in the world will be posted as if it just happened in DC. Every arrest by federal officers over that same time span will be posted as if it just happened in DC.
     
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    our democracy is lost
     
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    That's interesting and something that should be investigated (although not by the National Guard).

    Your linked article, nor the original source it quotes, doesn't dispute the fact that homicides are down, though.
     
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    "Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."
    --Attorney General Pam Bondi as Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, two accused rapists, stand by her side and nod approvingly.
     
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    So you are saying that because Madrid has a lower crime rate than DC, the United States must then become a corrupt fascistic autocracy?

    Why do we need to be a fascist dictatorship instead of a democracy? Why is that better for me?

    I'm asking for you guys to make the case. Sell me. Because I've been to DC many many times, and I love it and have never been mugged, or raped. So you are going to have to sell me on why we need to become a dictatorship because of this threat you desperately want to resolve.
     
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    The most conservative city, Jackson, has a murder rate almost triple that. When does the cavalry arrive?
     
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    Its hilarious how shameless you truly are. When Biden was president all you did was spam these forums claiming biden was a facist and big government dictator. Suddenly now you support sending armed police into cities for literally no reason.

    None of you people have any core ideology or morals

     
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