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bigtree

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Thu Aug 7, 2025, 01:03 AM Aug 2025

This is an arrogantly sloppy false flag event. [View all]

Last edited Thu Aug 7, 2025, 09:01 AM - Edit history (1)

Kristen Holmes @KristenhCNN 2h
NEWS: Trump administration planning for surge in federal law enforcement in DC Thursday & Friday following assault on a well-known former DOGE staffer, sources tell me & @HolmesLybrand

Officers from ICE, FBI, National Guard, along with local DHS agents will be part presence.


earlier report: Attack on former DOGE staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ prompts Trump to threaten to federalize DC
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-doge-employee-nicknamed-big-023217147.html


...so, the pretext for this fascism is ONE assault on a government contract worker?

"Big Balls," who's the former DOGE staffer who was supposedly attacked isn't even a D.C. resident, and wasn't even transported to the hospital. It's not that the assault and theft didn't happen, it's just that nothing in that event should justify the president of the United States occupying the city in any form or fashion other than his, or government's defense.

In no way is the assault of a former contract worker for the government a credible pretext for a federal government takeover of what essentially opperates as a (unrepresented) state.

These 'takeover' reports in the media should begin with the repeated noise from Trump and others in his administration for months now, arguing that D.C. crime rate makes it their imperative to not just take over the police dept, but take over the entire city.

Imagine that.

A city whose residents have zero representation in Congress, already subject to congressional rule on national legislators' will and whim who aren't residents there, under occupation by this republican president's deputized thugs because THEY decide - not the people who live there - that THEY know better than the local elected officials about how to manage what will never be Donald Trump's or any other out of state legislator's own.

...and the crime rate in D.C is going DOWN.

Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and announced by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves.

In addition to the overall violent crime reduction, homicides are down 32%; robberies are down 39%; armed carjackings are down 53%; assaults with a dangerous weapon are down 27% when compared with 2023 levels, with the District reporting the fewest assaults with dangerous weapons and burglaries in over 30 years.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low


And Trump also believes he owns New York City:

"We're not going to have -- if a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to," Trump said in early July, well before his "big balled" opportunistic false flag was attacked and carjacked.

"We could run D.C. We're looking at D.C. We don't want crime in D.C. We want the city to run well," he said. He said his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was working with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser.

While it's true that the mayor of D.C may have been doing everything from abandoning the 'Black Lives Matter' Plaza where the late John Lewis left his convalescence for terminal cancer to stand there proudly in support of the people; to trying to remove sanctuary city provisions which limit law enforcement's cooperation with immigration officials; there isn't a wit of support among the 40% black population for a modern-day plantation master making decisions about where they live in place of whatever little political power they still control.

I get this sense that most Americans are still seeing the targets and victims of this totalitarianism as 'others' who are in some way responsible for their own oppression because of the constant barrage of dehumanizing and profiling lies from the very top of leadership in the nation; portraying us as threats by mere virtue of our dark skin, or ethnicity, or where we live.

Make no mistake. This D.C takeover isn't about illegal immigrants, like the justifications in NY and California; it's about Donald Trump owning the nation's capitol and subjugating the people there to his false and contrived authority over them.

"We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to," Trump said. Not just D.C. or New York City, but all 'places' which roll over to his creeping totalitarianism. We can see how easily Trump has moved from a invented 'national emergency' on immigration, to an opportunistically announced 'emergency' advantaging a simple assault. and robbery, which local police are already handling.

This is an arrogantly sloppy false flag event. But that won't matter a bit as Trump's activated troops spread out around the city that's been southern congressmen's pet paternalistic project for decades, and pretend they're simultaneously protecting residents as well as owning them.
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Paging James O'Keefe madamesilverspurs Aug 2025 #1
He copies/steals everything, now the Reichstag fire, 1936 Olympics UTUSN Aug 2025 #2
No hospital fake deepblue Aug 2025 #3
That doesn't make sense EdmondDantes_ Aug 2025 #8
Has anybody said where he was and what he was doing where he was? ... BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #4
Big Balls alleged assault was lame kkmarie Aug 2025 #7
Thank for the update. BurnDoubt Aug 2025 #14
BS of the highest order Nululu Aug 2025 #5
+1 dalton99a Aug 2025 #10
a Musk diversion bigtree Aug 2025 #15
When you lie all the time, no one believes you. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #6
While Trump claims crime is "totally out of control" in D.C., crime has dropped dramatically bigtree Aug 2025 #9
Violent crime in DC declines, but when it happens it's deadlier MichMan Aug 2025 #16
none of that justifies a federal takeover bigtree Aug 2025 #17
All I know is that I am a hell of a lot safer in my rural small town than in any large city MichMan Aug 2025 #18
that anecdote doesn't trump the actual statistics bigtree Aug 2025 #19
The statistics that show that DC is safer than only 2% of all cities? MichMan Aug 2025 #20
why would that justify a government takeover? bigtree Aug 2025 #21
DC needs to just enforce the laws already on the books MichMan Aug 2025 #22
ha ha bigtree Aug 2025 #23
The Nazi invasion of Poland, the start of WWII, was started on the pretext Wednesdays Aug 2025 #11
I doubt the attempted carjacking charge will go forward Prairie Gates Aug 2025 #12
Big Ball's grandfather was executed by the soviets in 1987 because he was a CIA double agent. Mosby Aug 2025 #13
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