Trump Federalizing The D.C. Metro Police Has Nothing To Do With Stopping Crime

President Trump has taken over the metro police in Washington, D.C. by federalizing the local police and calling in the National Guard.

With his usual bombast, Trump claimed it was all about crime:

I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capitol back.

True to form, Trump doesn't let facts get in the way of his claims. In point of fact, crime in the Nation's Capitol is at a 30-year low. 

Of course, this move has nothing to do with crime. After all, there is no bigger criminal than Trump himself.

What this is about is militarizing law enforcement and centralization of authority in the White House. 

Simply put, it's authoritarianism.

And it's only the tip of the iceberg.

Don't be surprised if Trump sees fit to make similar moves in other "Democrat run cities" and threatened to do as much with New York, Balitmore, Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles. I'm sure Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon isn't far from Trump's schemes. 

If New Yorkers elect Zohran Mamdani, I'm sure the Big Apple will be next. As much as I loathe Mamdani, if Trump takes over the NYPD he will never relinquish no matter who the mayor is. 

Once other cities are "federalized" the invocation of the Insurrection Act is sure to follow before the U.S. Constitution is suspended altogether with the acquiescence of Congress, the Courts and, worse of all, civil society.

America, it was nice knowing you.