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Democrats call Trump's DC police takeover 'a distraction' from Epstein, tariffs and tax bill
Leading Democrats are lambasting Donald Trump’s decision to federalise the DC Metropolitan police department (MPD) and deployment of 800 National Guard troops to the city.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer wrote on X that Trump’s actions are a “political ploy” and an “attempted distraction” from the president’s “other scandals”, seemingly referring to the ongoing Epstein files saga that plagues the administration.
Schumer went on to write:
If he actually cared about the people of DC, he’d demand the House finally release the billion dollars of DC’s funding they’ve been sitting on for months.
Meanwhile, speaker emerita Nancy Pelosi offered a similar criticism, but also citing the president’s inaction during the January 6 attack.
Donald Trump delayed deploying the National Guard on January 6th when our Capitol was under violent attack and lives were at stake. Now, he’s activating the DC Guard to distract from his incompetent mishandling of tariffs, health care, education and immigration — just to name a few blunders.
Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who has frequently been the subject of Trump’s ire (the president even repeatedly referred to Pritzker as “incompetent” during yesterday’s press conference), snapped back on social media. He wrote that Donald Trump has “no authority to take over Chicago” and even goaded the president: “By the way, where are the Epstein files?”
Other leading voices in the party like Pete Buttigieg – former transportation secretary – doubled down in a video posted online. Buttigieg said that Trump was only taking over the police department “to solve his own political problems” and get his base “thinking and talking about something other than his refusal to open up the Epstein files, because he’s mixed up in them”.
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