Despite his threats to deploy the military across the country, President Donald Trump has revealed the impotence of his administration in actually solving crime, according to a recent analysis.
In a Thursday essay for the Washington Post entitled "Trump's bravado is no match for crooks and rats," columnist Marc Fisher argued that Trump's anti-crime push in the nation's capital has proven that the administration has been largely ineffective in its various goals. He pointed out the various ways in which the D.C. occupation has fallen flat.
"Trump says things, but saying is not doing: Where is the city supposed to put all the arrested people? In its overcrowded jail? And after Trump’s troops arrest so many lawbreakers that crime vanishes from the city, who will prosecute the cases?" Fisher wrote.
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"Who will judge the bad guys? The city’s Superior Court is short 13 judges (out of 62 positions), and the court has a backlog of about 4,000 cases," he continued. "...Who will indict and convict all the wrongdoers? The same grand jurors who on Tuesday rejected charges against Sandwich Man, the guy who threw a salami sub at a federal officer? The same grand jurors who refused to indict a protester accused of assaulting an FBI agent (actually, for pushing the agent’s arm after officers shoved the protester against a wall)?"
Fisher also referenced Trump's goal of criminalizing the burning of the American flag, which he outlined in an executive order earlier this week. However, he reminded readers that "like many of his other executive pronouncements, this one has more gum than teeth: He has zero authority to do such a thing."
"The Supreme Court has made it clear that flag-burning, annoying and offensive as it is, is protected speech, a classic symbolic expression of dissent," Fisher wrote, referencing the 1989 Texas v. Johnson case. He also slammed Trump for offering "shiny but stunningly inappropriate" gifts to D.C. residents, and suggested the city would be better served by Trump simply allowing local law enforcement to have proper autonomy to do their jobs, rather than National Guard troops flown in from thousands of miles away.
"Trump boasts that he’s somehow going to find $2 billion to spiff up the city’s parks," he added. "...This purportedly Republican president also plans to take over Union Station. Apparently, the private sector is the problem, and government is the solution."
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Click here to read Fisher's full column in its entirety.