Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

At least Hitler had a Reichstag fire as a pretext.

Yes he does, though as Washington DC is an administrative, not a state, it does not have a governor who would be the person nominally in charge of the National Guard units there. I'll leave the actual where-for on how to mobilise and task the NG units there on "presence in aid of the civil power" duties and limitations to a person versed in the practice.

What Trump might have in his mind for the troops tasks more than probably veers way offside to the callout tasks the NG can be legally allotted. I had in mind the thought that he might have feared, in his mind, that while he was away meeting Putin in Alaska that some-one might have made a move against him. His memory is not that bad that he has forgotten that he turned a "peaceful protest" into a mob who tried to help him take over power in Washington DC.

Edit: according to RTE, Trump has taken the Washington DC Police Dept under federal control under a Home Rule act he quoted from. That would deprive the mayor from having any law and order input on what happens to her city.

If Trump doesn't want criminals in DC, does that mean he's going to permanently move back to Florida.

On the Ukraine peace talks front, Michael Weiss, a journalist, wrote a short Facebook item about the differences between Putin and Washington on whom and what would be discussed at the Alaska Meet. It seems Witkoff took up what was told to him by Putin wrong and Putin did not say Russia would swop territory with Ukraine as part of the peace deal. It looks like Witkoff had to backtrack on his statement fast, and accept that Putin is intent on holding onto, at least, Crimea and maybe other parts of Ukraine he sees as strategically important to Russia.

If there's a deal done in Alaska, it'll probably be done without Ukraine being represented at the meeting, so it'll be worth as much as Trump and Putin assign it, like the pacts Putin made with Ukraine in the past, dishonoured at their pleasure. I cant see even something as a face-saver for Trump coming from the meeting, if he even decides to go to it, given the Europeans standing with Zelenskyy.

What motives do you ascribe to this.?

A distraction from JE?

An attempt to look for scapegoats to fuel anger and division on the country?

Is he on a fishing expedition so that he can find illegal immigrants?

An attempt to accuse Democrats of being soft on crime?

Just "look strong"?

(I understand his previous position on Jan6 was that he could not deploy the NG-not that his word stands for anything)

Which is probably why he didn't walk down Pennsylvania Avenue with his peaceful protest fans that day. If things had turned bad for them that day, he would have been in the thick of it.

And the only mention from the investigation was to get them to protect HIM, not the city.

Convicted felon complains about crime, in a city with a historic low crime rate, and in the same city he himself caused a riot in, and then pardoned the criminals who carried out that riot.

Yes ,I should have added that to the list.It was on my mind,of course.They are prodding the Dems and others.

If they don't react they are complicit and if they do react they are marxist revolutionaries(and there is your crackdown accompanied by as many attempts to shift the blame by the liar in chief - eg he "only wants peace")