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What if —and I am just wondering here— what if the Administration is securing DC before it makes a really controversial move? Like arresting someone near the top of the political food chain?
Suppose you were planning something like that, and you wanted to preclude the otherwise inevitable violent protests in the Nation’s Capital. What better way to prepare than in advance by loading up DC with military, national guard, FBI, and tons of other resources under direct federal control, that might otherwise seem like overkill to handle a few mobs of unruly teenage gangsters?
(Obviously, the useless Metro Police wouldn’t be any help. They’d wave through those kinds of protests. They’d never ever shut them down, citing the First Amendment and the right to protest, however “mostly peaceful.” Hence, a surge of federal law enforcement.)
What Trump has rolled out —800 National Guardsmen, plus FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals, and even Park Police, all under centralized federal command— is massive overkill for routine street crime. It’s also expensive: you’re paying for deployments, per diems, temporary billets, and operational integration of multiple agencies. ...
If you were about to make a move on someone high enough up the political food chain to ignite instant unrest, you wouldn’t wait until the crowd was already forming at Union Station. You’d flood the zone first — National Guard, FBI, DEA, ATF, all under a single federal command — so that when the real shoe does drop, the perimeter is already sealed and the city’s protest infrastructure is choked off before it can even get started.
Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is reportedly preparing to retire from Congress at the end of her current term, marking the end of nearly four decades in office and two historic stints as Speaker of the House.
According to an NBC News report, multiple Democratic Party sources say Pelosi, 85, plans to announce her retirement after Tuesday’s elections.
The news has left Democrats bracing for a major shift in leadership.
But Axios noticed the deliciously ironic fact that last year, Pelosi “played a central role in pushing then-President Biden off the Democratic presidential ticket due to his age and fitness to run.”
President Trump spoke plainly, starting with praise. “I think she did the country a great service by retiring,” Trump said. “I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible.” Well. Maybe not that much praise.
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