Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“US President Donald Trump, always looking to distract attention from his many crimes, has deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials in Washington, DC. After his usual wild exaggerations about ‘violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youths, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,’ he moves to impose what is becoming his police state over an overwhelmingly Democratic city. As Trump’s troops fan out across more of the city, they are told to be aggressive, take credit for arrests made by the local DC police force, and arbitrarily interrogate DC residents, for example, people waiting at bus stops, minding their own business. Trump, during his first and current terms, rarely stepped out of his limousine to see what DC is like. He finally visited with a cluster of his police and troops yesterday …” (08/23/25)