President Donald Trump’s navy occupation of Washington continues to descend into an embarrassing farce with failed prosecutions and Nationwide Guard members caught on trash cleanup obligation.
On Tuesday, Trump mentioned that the occupation was proof that, like a dictator, he can do “anything” he desires and that he intends to dispatch the Nationwide Guard and different federal legislation enforcement to different states. Equally, his administration has mentioned that his actions are justified due to a purported “crime emergency.”
However as Trump was touting his actions, video emerged of the Nationwide Guard members selecting up trash, wearing full fatigues and security vests in Lafayette Park subsequent to the White Home.
The tranquil scene reinforces the truth that crime within the nation’s capital dropped to a 30-year low in 2024 underneath President Joe Biden. Trump has been focusing on the town—which has a major Black inhabitants and a Black mayor—as his administration desperately tries to maneuver consideration away from the Epstein scandal.
Now Trump has pushed for federal forces to hold weapons across the capital, and images depicting troops marching by Washington underneath banners of Trump’s face have strengthened his fascist sentiments.
Armed Nationwide Guard troopers from West Virginia patrol the Mall close to the Labor Division in Washington, the place a poster of President Donald Trump is displayed, on Aug. 26.
However on the bottom, issues aren’t fairly totally in Trump’s grasp, and he isn’t doing significantly better on the authorized entrance.
The notorious notion {that a} grand jury “could indict a ham sandwich” seems to have been disproven by the Trump administration’s sloppy dealing with of crime points in Washington.
On Tuesday, a grand jury rejected the Justice Division’s case towards Sean Dunn, a former DOJ worker who threw a ham sandwich at a federal agent, and refused to indict him.
The rejection echoes the issues the DOJ has confronted in attempting to safe an indictment towards Washington resident Torez Riley, who was accosted for being Black and sporting a backpack. Justice of the Peace Choose Zia Faruqui dismissed the fees, calling the case “the most illegal search I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Blue state governors like JB Pritzker of Illinois and Wes Moore of Maryland have stepped up their rhetoric on the necessity to shield their constituents from Trump’s overreach—and to this point the administration’s fumbles are serving to make that case.
