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Things intensified at DC
DC Trumpian Trumpian control was as comical as it was disturbing. The concept of FBI agents – not trained in police at the street level – Walking on a beat is also Keystone as a sinister cops. The images of mismatched federal agents that cross the quiet streets of Georgetown added to the comedy. The DC resident openly launching a metro sandwich in a federal agent, then spice in the street captured the absurdity of the whole situation, including the impossible position that the police officers put it.
However, combined with the federal presence in Los Angeles and the declared objectives of Trump and his servants to effectively occupy the blue cities-that is to say really black and brown people and their elected officials in the heel in a way of large-scale reality TV-reality TV-Trump’s Gambit DC is also deeply disturbing. Although it can be tempting to wave the demonstration of force as silly and ineffective, the underlying desire towards violence continues to animate Trump and the Maga movement in a dangerous and unpredictable way. It will not end well.
The developments of the day at DC were less comical than the bottom. The Attorney General Pam Bondi affirmed a new level of authority over the DC police, claiming to install Terry Cole, the chief of the Drug Encompement Administration, as “emergency police commissioner” of DC, a commissioner in a way on all the force. She also claimed to publish new directives for the cancellation of previous instructions on the priorities to apply the local police chief.
DC officials immediately rejected Bondi in power. DC prosecutor General Brian Schwalb quickly issued an opinion that Bondi had exceeded the statutory authority which allows the DC police to be used for federal purposes. The mayor of DC Muriel Bowser, who marked a thin line between resistance and acquiescence at the White House of Trump, approved the legal position of Schwalb, which is itself elected.
This morning, Schwalb had brought a federal legal action at DC to block the power capture of Bondi.
Meanwhile, the sandwich saga is starting to take real importance. In an unlikely way, Sean Charles Dunn was an employee of the Doj when he launched the metro sandwich in an officer at the corner of the street. Bondi has since dismissed him. But things become more interesting from there.
Dunn was charged for the first time before the DC Superior Court and released on Monday. American lawyer Jeanine Pirro then reached the case to a crime before the Federal Court. Dunn tried to go to the federal accusations, but around twenty federal officers presented themselves on Wednesday evening at his DC residence to arrest him.
The White House deceived the arrest in an offbeat video, which once again has comical elements. Note the first text on the screen: “West End, DC”. Don’t be afraid. This is the DC part between the White House and Georgetown, filled with hotels, restaurants, bars, law firms and George Washington University. It is only in the world of Maga that DC would inspire the fear and disgust of DC:
The result of yesterday’s hearing was that the judge agreed to release Dunn despite the new crime accusation.
To top a wild day at DC, we learned more from a witness on the submarine in question: Salami.
The Grand Jury of the DC twice rejected the assault against the officer’s affair
The Pirro office asked twice and did not obtain an indictment of the Grand Jury against a woman accused of having attacked an FBI agent during a transfer of ice prisoners last month, said a court on Thursday, Wusa reports.
“Two presentations to the Grand Jury did not return any bill twice,” said judge G. Michael Harvey. “Suggest that evidence is sought, given the norm for the indictment is a probable cause. Suggest that the government may never get an indictment. “
Sydney Lori Reid was charged last month from the same crime against the Sandwich DC launcher.
Glove
A bunch of armed agents from the border patrol massed outside a Los Angeles press conference on the redistribution run by California Governie Gavin Newsom (D), arousing indignation among local elected officials.
The border patrol was ostensibly there for a raid, lat reported, and a person was detained.
But proximity in time and place was more than suspect.
Gregory Bovino, the head of the border patrol who heads for the aggressive application of immigration in southern California, has moved to the stage and said: “We make Los Angeles a safer place here because we have no politicians who can do it.”
Watch of the detention camp
- WAPO: ICE documents reveal a double space for immigrant detention this year, expanding the capacity of the world’s largest immigration detention system from 50,000 to more than 107,000.
- AP: The governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, announced plans for the second immigration detention camp managed by the state which he nicknamed “Depot Depot”.
- TPM’s Hunter Walker: within a fight of the Amerindian tribe against the detention camp “ Alligator Alcatraz ”
Day quote
“What he tries to do is present the best possible image of what he does, even if it means that he must cook the numbers, even if it means that it must distort the data. It is essentially a page of the authoritarian game book.” –Robert Cropf, professor of political science at St. Louis University, on the Trump war against data
Trump judge blocks the anti-dei initiative in education
US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher from Maryland, a Trump’s nominated, canceled Trump’s attempt to eliminate DEI in public schools and universities.
Costco Knuckles under the right wing on the abortion pill
Under the political pressure of the right, Costco announced that he would not exempt the mifepristone abortion pill from his pharmacies. Right groups welcomed the victory decision.
The smallest of men
President Trump called the Norway Minister of Finance last month to put pressure on the Nobel Peace Prize, reported the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.
“Unexpectedly, while the Minister of Finance Jens Stoltenberg was walking in the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called … He wanted the Nobel Prize – and to discuss the prices,” said the newspaper.
Stoltenberg, who was the NATO secretary general during Trump’s first term, confirmed that a call on the prices had taken place but refused to provide more details.
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