Trump's total failure in DC

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AverageOldGuy (2,844 posts)

Trump's total failure in DC

Trump’s stunt – putting FBI agents and National Guard troops on DC streets – is a failure from the start. It’s a big nothingburger. It’s not the streets on fire that Trump hoped for.

If you want to see clear evidence of Trump’s failure, watch the press conferences with the DC mayor and police chief. They are not expressing outrage about the FBI and NG personnel. Instead, they are talking about cooperation while, at the same time, going on with normal police operations.

Trump wanted DC officials to freak out, to pound the podium. Trump wanted DC residents to take to the streets, throwing Molotov cocktails, burning buildings. NOTHING has happened or will happen because everyone in DC from the mayor and police chief down recognizes Trump’s move to be a stunt, a shadow-puppet theater, a big nothing . . . all staged by Trump in hopes of prompting riots.

Furthermore, we all know Trump pulled this stunt in an attempt to draw public attention away from (1) the declining economy, (2) his coming failure in negotiating with Putin about Obama, and (3) the Epstein affair, which will not go away and which just may eventually sink Trump.

My daughter is an attorney living on Capitol Hill. She reported the following today.

Yes, there are FBI agents clearly identifiable because they cruise around in black SUVs or black sedans, all with federal government license plates. They monitor the DC police radio and when they hear an arrest in progress, they run to the scene so they can get on camera “assisting” the DC police.

Smoking weed. Marijuana possession and use is legal in DC provided you possess a small amount, do not sell weed, and use it only for personal consumption. In residential neighborhoods – especially the older DC neighborhoods made up of row houses – it is common for people to sit on their front stoop in the evening, visiting with neighbors, and smoking weed. Over the past two days, FBI agents have freaked out and tried to arrest people for sitting on their front stoop smoking weed. The FBI agents were told to **** off, were informed about the DC law, and they left with their tails between their legs.

The churches. DC streets are crowded. In DC are several very large, well-attended churches, most of them Black churches although a couple of white churches have the same issue: Parking. So, on Sundays, at church time, parking is permitted on both sides of the streets around these large churches, and when church is out, no one interferes with those leaving church. Except this past Sunday, when at one big Black church, a couple of genius FBI agents blocked off the streets and tried to ticket drivers leaving the church and were eventually sent packing after church members explained the local customs and told – not asked – the FBI agents to get the hell out of the neighborhood.

Brown people. Reports are now circulating that the FBI agents are stopping cars with brown people driving or in the car. They demand ID, ask about immigration status, and generally harass people.

800 National Guardsmen. Everyone knows that, with 800 troops coming in, at any given time, there will NOT be 800 Guardsmen on the streets. To conduct 24-hour operations, they will have to work in shifts of about 200 while the other 600 are either off duty or are working on housekeeping chores. At least 25% of the 800 will never set foot on a DC street because their job is to support the other troops – cooks, medics, vehicle mechanics, personnel and finance clerks, and the like.

Face it, this deployment to DC is nothing but a stupid Trump stunt that he has dreamed of since his first term. The reaction by the DC leadership and residents is not what Trump expected and he doesn’t know what to do. But his halfwit, knuckle-dragging, drooling MAGAt supporters just love it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220556558

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