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Trump doesn’t have the power to take over police departments in other cities apart from Washington

Donald Trump threatened to send active-duty military personnel into America’s third-largest city to quell what he described as out-of-control crime at the hands of a liberal mayor and Democratic-run city and state governments.

Speaking in the Oval Office Friday to reporters, Trump was boasting of positive crime numbers in the District of Columbia since he seized control of the capital’s police department earlier this month.

He claimed the national guard soldiers tasked with patrolling some of Washington had been doing an “incredible job working with the police” and said his solution for the capital — uniformed soldiers and roving patrols of federal agents who have largely been conducting immigration arrests of delivery drivers according to government statistics — would soon be sent to “another location” to “make it safe.”

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah he fucking looks like he's dying soon.

What dumb fucking goofball, he meets Putin face to face, gives him that bare naked palm to shake, then a week later he's like "Oh I feel sick I think I might be dying".

You dumb shit, of course you're dying, one of the toxic dicks you been licking secreted KGB venom you stupid dumb asshole.

"Awww I just wanted to kiss a KGB man, now my cankles are swelling with fluid and I lost a lot of weight."

Yeah bitch, you got poisoned!

Meanwhile the dems are all like "Did ya see Gavin Newsome say something, he's not like the other Democrats!"

....shiiiiiiiiieet.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My amateur read would be that Trump is far more useful to Russia alive as the credulous creature he is than dead. Letting Vance carry on the MAGA legacy would be risky for Putin's ambitions, so long as Trump is handily disrupting any hope of Ukrainian self determination, why rock the boat?

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they've been fighting, seems like that's what's being said. Trump slowly realizing he's being lied to. Better a stable person than someone who might actually nuke if he gets cranky enough (the big baby). Also, Russia probably just wants the flex - I think autocrats see the revolving door of democracies as a weakness.

Hell, maybe Putin saw the stealth bomber got paranoid and got "the guy" to slap that shit into his hand just incase.

All I know is that you meet that guy, you wash your hands straight away.

[–] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You don't shake his hand in the first place. Why would you shake a war criminal's hand?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why would Putin poison him when he’s doing everything Putin wants.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

are you sure it's not spelled sheeeeeeeiit?

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s German pronunciation

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

excuse me bussygyatt, why did you name yourself that

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

i thought it was funny at the time.