Just finished watching a livestream on TheFP about President Trump’s takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department in DC.
Yes, it’s probably legal. DC is an odd beast. Yes, they elect a mayor and legiaslative functions are handled by an elected city council.
But the judicial system is almost entirely dispatched to the Federal Government.
If things aren’t going well, the Federal government can essentially sack all of the elected leaders. Normally, this would be something the Congress handles, but the Legislative Branch has dispatched so much work to the Executive Branch. There’s important fundraising to do, don’t you know? The Executive can act until we decide we can be bothered to get back to DC.
The NBC affiliate in DC last night was very confused.
Clearly it’s awful, because anything Trump does is awful.
But the MPD Union are in favor?
Sent a news crew to somewhere outside rich Northwest, and the residents are in support of the takeover?
Good high-priced reporting education cannot compute. How is this possible? Doesn’t everybody know how evil he is?
Not sure whether to be dismayed or bemused.