Washington, DC, under the siege


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August 11, 2025

Trump put the capital of the nation under the federal occupation.

People are participating in a march against the Trump administration’s federal seizure of Colombia on August 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

(Kevin Lietsch / Getty Images)

Washington, DC, is already lacking representation in Congress, has no control over its own budget, and it cannot issue laws free from the intervention of Congress. Now, under the Trump administration, the city is heading towards Pantostan’s position. By summoning the fake emergency authorities under the internal base law in the capital, President Donald Trump has effectively enforcement in the province, which led to the delegation of the supervision of the capital’s metro police to the Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi and secured the Minister of Defense Beit Higseth to mobilize the National Guard forces in Washington. The head of the Anti -Narcotics Agency, Terry Cole, will have operational control over the metro police department in Washington as a temporary federal commissioner.

It is clear that the display of shock and strength, similar to brown raids in administration to churches, schools and workplaces in Los Angeles to immigrants who are not documented. “This is the liberation day in Washington, DC,” Trump announced at a press conference on Monday morning. When putting his logical justifications, Trump made a Fox News tour with a set of criminal chaos. Trump insisted, even with the centers of the capital A, “I have become a full city and a complete network.” The lowest 30 -year level in violent crimes and 26 percent reduction More than the prices mentioned in the middle of last year. Trump and his support from the staff of management, legal and security, who share the platform, all of them in the image of Washington as a place where families and tourists have alive.

Trump has always been in the case of the capital under the siege by migratory gangs and violent local criminals, and social myths that depend on punishment like this that fed his general career. In 1989, it was directed Complete page ads in the main newspapers in New York To restore the death penalty in the state for the execution of the curved members of Central Park five. ))

It does not matter that, even because of Trump’s own thinking, his team had no meaning: in addition to the demand for the state’s killing of innocent citizens and unfairly ready, Trump was calling for their execution in a case in which the victim was, while he was subjected to horrific assault, they were actually killed. The goal of Trump’s spells, then, is to create a scene of impunity under which state agents are enabled to act under the AgitPro.

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This was immediately evident as Trump sought to describe the plight of the DC police men under “wake up” and “leftist radicalism”. Trump said that criminals “will resist until hell expelled them.” “It is the only language they understand.” Reinteplation A legend from the peak of the Vietnam war protestsTrump said that the law forces – who seemed to be confused here with the demonstrators during the black life protests in 2020 – “I love spit on the police, and they screaming at them in an inch from their face, spitting in their faces.” Some police reported that they spoke at that time – the demonstrators, in turn, stated that the police were spitting on them – but this specified piece is mainly serving to lead home that federal agents would patrol in the capital under the maximum conditions of impunity. “You spit, and hit us,” Trump announced, stressing that he is in previous police confrontations, “You can see [the police] He wanted to get it. Now they are allowed to do everything they want against hell. “

Of course, there was a blatant omission in Trump’s photography of a criminal life in the capital. Trump and his motivation have avoided the largest direct attack on the Capital Police in the History of the Modern City-the January 6 rebellion in the Capitol in the United States, when they were disgusting weapons, and they wounded many weapons heavier than their saliva, and was injured 140 members of the American metro police and the American Capitol Police. Five police officers He died as a result of the attack. Apparently not deceived, Trump Sorry for more than 1500 riots January 6.

This effect on the divided screen on the blatant sub -text of most of the Maga Doomster speech on violent crime: It is invisible when the heroic allies are perpetrators of the perpetrators and a bitter public emergency summary that requires an unprecedented crowd of federal power when they claim that they are claimed by the residents of the city that are not immune. Once again, Trump was not hidden from a distance. He said: “The average killing in Washington is higher than the rate of Bogota, Colombia and Mexico City – the places you hear about as the worst places on the face of the earth.” Later, he added the seizure bag on other scary centers of chaos in the alleged third world to a roll call, apparently randomly: “Baghdad, the city of Panama, San Jose, Costa Rica, Lima, Peru.” “Do you want to live in such places?” He asked the journalists gathered in terror. Trump added: “If this racist racist is not made behind his strength clear enough, we will get rid of the slums where [criminals] Live, “and congratulated himself again for saying something that was not” political correct. “

On Monday, Trump’s announcement of the White House of overcoming federal emergencies from the delicate air to unify the strong forces. The border repression has relied on a fabricated ghost “invading” the country, which is carried out by illegal immigrants who commit more criminal terrorism. Trump tariff attack – the last “liberation day” announced by the White House – as it was called Powers under the Economic Forces Law in International Emergency Cases. None of these allegations had no reasonable experimental foundations-immigrants committed a violent crime at lower rates of indigenous population in America, and the American economy was not in anything similar to the crisis when Trump first made his wrong group of customs tariffs. At least, the least prosthesis national press can raise the cause of the cause, if all these aspects of public life are very disastrous, then it did not raise the same armed repression during the first Trump administration.

As with the legacy of January 6, the ghost of the national emergency is something that is prepared – or was rejected – to achieve political gains. That is why you no longer hear anything about it Ethical panic to eat pets Which swept the Haiti community in Springfield, Ohio, at the height of the presidential campaign 2024; This is also the reason for the “migratory convoy” that consumed an acre of right -wing news coverage during the mid -term course 2018 She disappeared from the attention of the audience The next day of the elections. The only difference now is that the White House Trump II feels enabled to convert a minute that hates into long -term political directives.

However, daily life in Washington may be an emergency of the permanent federal occupation. Trump has already issued instructions to the federal forces under the leadership of Bondi to dismantle the homeless camps and cut a wide range across the city in search of occasions to bend their muscles. During the weekend, Trump launched 5,000 federal officers in the capital, including 120 FBI agent, as a preview of the upcoming things. Their manual reports indicate the same abuse of power that are now routine under the siege of ICE extending in Los Angeles. like NPR reportsOn Sunday, one of the small traffic has produced an overwhelming display of the most terrifying power to lose sight of its summons: “At one intersection, a simple traffic accident between a car and two sugar came at least ten factors running, and some wearing masks and one carrying a rifle.”

In a separate incident, a metro policeman opened the participating in the “Federal Labor Operation” fire on a pair of armed suspects near the metro facility on Saturday-a dramatic show of force from officers who usually see through metro cars with anything but they are not developed. per A Washington Post a report“Investigative officers in the Internal Security, Alcohol Office, tobacco, firearms and explosives were at the scene, according to the law enforcement official, familiar with the accident.

This initial state of the siege is preparing to be the new natural in Washington – Trump and his family will not stop there. When a reporter asked him about what other cities might fall under the authority of this rocking country, Trump, of course, referred to the cities that harbor large groups of corners. “I will look at New York a short time ago, to see if we need to do so,” Trump replied, adding that similar assessments will be determined “if we will do it in Chicago.” In other words, this administration will go to what you want against hell.

At the moment of the crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.

We began to see one of them formed in the streets and in polling boxes throughout the country: from the campaign of the mayor of New York City Zahran Mamdani focused on the ability to bear costs, to the societies that protect their neighbors from ice, to members of the Senate who oppose arms shipments to Israel.

The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make it: Will it embrace a preliminary and common policy, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with elites and advisers outside the touch that happened to us here?

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Chris Lehman



Chris Lehman is the head of the Capital Office Nation And the editor of a shareholder in Pavler. It was previously editor of the Pavler and New RepublicAnd he is the author recently Money worship: capitalism and Christianity and not making the American dream (Melville House, 2016).

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