From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: It might start there (DC)...but that's not where it will end.
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:31:58 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-08-11 10:46, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-08-11, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> "Pretty soon, you won't have a country anymore"
>>
>> 'President Donald Trump announced Monday he was putting the Washington,
>> D.C. police department under federal control and deploying National
>> Guard on the streets of the nation's capitol, a striking move taken over
>> the objections of local leaders, who say Trump is exaggerating the
>> city's crime problems.'
>>
>> <https://time.com/7308788/trump-washington-dc-national-guard/?itm_source=parsely-api>
>>
>> 'Data show that violent crime in the nationâs capital is down
>> significantly from a peak in 2023. But Trump paints a different picture.
>> Trump described Washington as âone of the most dangerous cities anywhere
>> in the Worldâ in a post on Truth Social Saturday. On Sunday, Trump
>> wrote, âIâm going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it
>> ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will
>> give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.â'
>>
>
> Guess you must have missed this one:
>
> <https://thepostmillennial.com/dc-police-commander-placed-on-leave-over-deliberately-falsifying-crime-data>
>
> "DC police commander placed on leave over 'deliberately' falsifying crime data
> The police union has accused Pulliam of deliberately falsifying the data."\
Even assuming that's true, aren't you just avoiding having to say that
it's wrong for Trump to take over the DC police force?
That's it's wrong for him to say he'll do it in other cities?
Come on, brave guy: you're the one who's always saying how independently
you think!
But here you are snipping a lot of content and attempting to justify the
unjustifiable.