Trump federalizing DC police, deploying National Guard in capital crime crackdown

[Hans Blaster]

Trump calls for RICO charges after protesters shouted at him in DC restaurant: 'She started screaming!'​

Trump was asked during a news conference in the Oval Office about an incident that occurred last week, where protesters shouted at him and members of his cabinet while they dined at a local Washington, D.C. restaurant.

During the news conference, Trump said he's asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to "look into" charging protesters and agitators under federal racketeering statutes.

"She was a paid agitator, and you have a lot of them, and I've asked Pam [Bondi] to look into that in terms of bringing RICO cases against them. Criminal RICO."

"They should be put in jail," Trump said. "What they're doing to this country is really subversive."

Oh, they should definitely look into if anyone pays "Code Pink"...

 

[essentialsaltes]

Troops in DC encounter few crises, but plenty of walking and yard work​

For nearly a month, Guard members hailing from D.C., Louisiana, West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, South Dakota and Georgia have donned their Army fatigues to help combat what President Donald Trump’s administration has called “intolerable risks” to federal government functions in Washington.

More than a dozen Guard troops who spoke to Military Times on the condition of anonymity in recent days view their current deployment as “part of the job” but say they simply haven’t seen “emergency” levels of crime since being assigned to the D.C. mission.

“Have I seen [an emergency]? I’d better not answer that,” one Guard member said, shaking his head. “Besides people falling off the steps, not really.”

Some troops walking around the nation’s capital said they feel like an experiment, a “test force” to see if this type of deployment could be replicated elsewhere.

[in re beautification] A National Park Service official told Military Times on Thursday the service had lost between 130 and 180 national capital region employees, in addition to manpower loss due to the administration’s freeze on maintenance contracts.

“There is this little bit of irony about the fact that the administration did all these cuts, and then went to the buyouts, and now the National Guard started kind of making up for that,” said the official.

Cutting 130 to 180 employees from the D.C. parks would have likely saved millions of dollars for American taxpayers, but the savings amount to a fraction of what the Guard deployment will end up costing over the course of multiple months.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I SAID TRUMP WANTS TO EQUATE PROTESTS WITH CRIMINAL RACKETS

Deputy AG Blanche says 'organized' Trump protesters could face criminal investigations​

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said people who noisily protest President Donald Trump could face criminal investigations if their actions are tied to organizations that seek to inflict "harm, terror or damage" on the president.

"Is it sheer happenstance that individuals show up at a restaurant where the president is trying to enjoy dinner in Washington, DC, and accost him with vile words and vile anger? And meanwhile, he’s simply trying to have dinner," Blanche said in an interview on CNN.

[As I understand it, they made reservations, but I don't think that counts as 'organization' in any criminal sense. nor is it harm/terror/damage]

Trump, when asked Sept. 16 about Bondi's remarks about "hate speech," lashed out the reporter who asked the question, Jonathan Karl of ABC News.

"We should probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. [This too is not harm/terror/damage] It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart," Trump said to Karl. "Maybe they'll come after ABC."

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of three justices who make up the court's liberal bloc, weighed into the debate over free speech on Sept. 16. “Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, `That law school failed,’” she said at event on civic education.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A federal grand jury refused to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer, and grand jurors refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent.

Trial starts in (misdemeanor) assault case against D.C. man who tossed sandwich at federal agent​

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, said he expects the trial to last no more than two days “because it’s the simplest case in the world.”

[Defense lawyer points to Jan6 pardons and assault case dismissals to argue this is selective prosecution.]

 

[Valletta]

Trial starts in (misdemeanor) assault case against D.C. man who tossed sandwich at federal agent​

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, said he expects the trial to last no more than two days “because it’s the simplest case in the world.”

[Defense lawyer points to Jan6 pardons and assault case dismissals to argue this is selective prosecution.]

She needs to handle it the same way she will when people start throwing sandwiches at her.

 

[wing2000]

She needs to handle it the same way she will when people start throwing sandwiches at her.

Is that a threat?

 

[Hans Blaster]

She needs to handle it the same way she will when people start throwing sandwiches at her.

Why would any one even know who she is? (The only "she" I can find in this story is the defense lawyer, who is not named in the post.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Trial starts in (misdemeanor) assault case against D.C. man who tossed sandwich at federal agent​

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, said he expects the trial to last no more than two days “because it’s the simplest case in the world.”

[Defense lawyer points to Jan6 pardons and assault case dismissals to argue this is selective prosecution.]

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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.'
They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.
"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.
"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box.