Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump's DC Takeover Continues

At WokeSpy, Kash Patel’s FBI Hits the Ground Running with Trump’s Plan to Clean Up Washington DC. John Sexton at Hat Hair sees the National Guard Deployed in Washington, DC (and the Left is Lashing Out). From Common Defense, Troops, Tough Leadership, and a Plan to Restore Safety in America's Front Yard Expected Mid-Week. Liz Peek observes Democrats Officially the Pro-Crime Party. Christian Collins @CollinsforTX, "173 House Democrats backed a Washington, D.C. law to REDUCE penalties for: - Murders - Sexual assault - Robberies - Carjackings - Home invasions Democrats are pro-criminal, and it’s why they are against Trump's efforts to make the Capital safe again." At Da Mail, Anderson Cooper explains the clever trap Trump has set for Democrats after announcing DC crime crackdown that has infuriated liberals. End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Black business owner laughs in the face of a reporter who says crime is down: “Trump's absolutely right”" At NYPo Rich Lowry opines Washington, DC, has only itself to blame for Trump’s law-and-order takeover. From Fox, Trump warns he may bypass Congress with national emergency to keep DC police control beyond 30 days. "President Trump seeks congressional extension of 30-day federalization of capital police as arrests top 100 people." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " BREAKING: Tom Homan just announced that DC’s illegal alien Sanctuary City status has been REVOKED under President Trump’s federalization. Oh, they are going to lose it over this. “D.C. under federal control is not going to be a 'sanctuary' city. We're working with the police hand-in-hand — and when we encounter a criminal illegal alien, they'll be turned over to ICE." GREAT NEWS. Restore the capital." Dan Greenfield at FrontPage, D.C. Cops Only Caught 32% of Armed Robbers. Pop Times, DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon Becomes Target of Robbery Attempt as DC Crime Escalates. Also at WokeSpy, Dark-Money Donors, Including George Soros, Pump $20 Million Into DC Anti-Trump Protest Movement. Drew Berquist sees Nancy Pelosi Gets Egg All Over Her Face When Former Capitol Police Chief Responds to Her J6 Post. From Ace, Trump, Pentagon Plan for Rapid-Deployment National Guard Force to Stop Democrat Rioting, "Well they didn't say "Democrat rioting" but is there any other kind? Oh right, there was four hours of people milling about amiably in the Capitol. Just like Germany in 1953. Or whenever. I don't know history good." Insty, THIS IS WHAT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS LOOKS LIKE: @instapundit @instapundit ""Incel?" Wasn't Big Balls literally protecting his girlfriend? Seems potentially libelous." Quote Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze, "This is the Democratic Party operative who started the border agents on horses whipping migrants that the entire media ran with that made it all the way to the White House and they still take him as being credible."

John Sexton at Hat Hair, NBC News: Here's the Texas Dems' Exit Strategy. Ace, Confirmed: Democrat Runaways to Return to Capital Now That Beto's Bribe Money Has Been Cut Off, "I mentioned this as an update to a post last night but now it's confirmed. Now that they have to pay for hotel and travel out of their own pockets, these Selfless Servants of Socialism have decided that all they really wanted to do was to "raise awareness about gerrymandering."" At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.25 (Early Evening Edition), Twitchy: Texas Democrats Cave & Will Return To Texas This Weekend.

ET, US Deficit Grows to $291 Billion in July Despite Record Tariff Revenues "Trump’s tariff windfall hit a new record—but it wasn’t enough to offset higher spending, driven in part by high debt servicing costs." Thanks to Jerome Powell. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Jerome Powell Says He Won’t Lower Interest Rates Until He Can Be Sure It Won’t Help Trump https://buff.ly/DEaFAPp." TNP, Trump Strikes Deal With Nvidia, AMD: Share of China Chip Sales Will Go to U.S. Government. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.25 (Evening Edition), Watts Up With That, How Jerome Powell Played Biden’s Climate Games While Inflation Ran Rampant.

A video at Hat Hair on Understanding Putin's Face Off With Donald Trump. Sundance at CTH claims Zelenskyy, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Poland, Finland, the E.U. and NATO Coordinate Pressure Campaign Against President Trump.

Matt Margolis at PJM sees Exposed: How Hillary Planned to Reward Schiff for Undermining Trump, CIA Director? From the Pop Times, Jim Jordan Explains Why Whistleblower Against Adam Schiff is Credible. Matt Vespa at TownHall, We Won't Get Caught: The Latest Russian Collusion Doc Involving Adam Schiff Is Nuts. Clandestine @WarClandestine, "These allegations from the Dem whistleblower are WILD. Schiff called a staff meeting, told everyone he was going to leak classified intelligence to harm Trump, someone pointed out that’s treason, other staffers said not to worry about it because they won’t get caught… WHAT?!" Sundance at CTH, DNI Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies 2016 Clapper Email to Adm Mike Rogers Telling NSA Director, “That’s OUR story, and We’re Sticking to it”… Matt Vespa, James Clapper: Everyone Just Get in Line on the Russian Collusion Hoax...Screw the Usual Process.  Ace cites Just the News: James Comey Got His "Friend" Hired by the Government and Given a Top Secret Clearance So That Comey Could Leak to Him and Have Him Leak to Reporters. "Actually, that much, I think, was already known. But it's hard to write a headline about the new stuff. John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy: "Comey's media mole told FBI he shaped Russia narrative, needed 'discount' to deny leaking intel. The FBI confirmed illegal intel leaks but rounded up no offenders. Declassified memos have unmasked Comey's secret media conduit, a law professor whom Comey put on the government payroll." Sundance also has Kash Patel Sends John Solomon Declassified Information on James Comey’s Leak Operative, Daniel Richman and Matt Taibbi Says His FBI/DOJ Sources Are Seeking Big Indictments in Russiagate. Kevin McCullough at TownHall says Lock Him Up! Lock Her Up! Lock All Of Them Up! At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.25 (Early Evening Edition), Twitchy, Schifftier Than We Thought! From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.25 (Evening Edition), Director Blue: Risky Schiffness, American Greatness: Report: Dem Whistleblower Repeatedly Warned FBI About Adam Shift’s RussaGate Leaks, American Thinker: The ‘Scarf Administration’ of Barack Obama, Comey’s Last Moves – Spying on a President, Setting the Trap, & Lying About It, The Geller Reports Democratic Whistleblower Reveals Adam Schiff Approved Classified Leaks to Target President Trump.

Charles Gasparino at NYPo goes Inside the enormous Biden effort to ‘debank’ Trump after Jan. 6.

John Sexton sees Another Trump Win in Court, This Time Over Impounding Foreign Aid. Mike Cantrell at PJM celebrates as Trump Scores Yet Another Yuge Appellate Victory.

Nick Arama at RedState hears Melania Trump Delivers a Big Legal Warning to Hunter Biden, and He'd Better Listen. "During the interview titled "Hunter Biden Returns" with Andrew Callaghan, Hunter claimed that "Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep." But Melania Trump isn't letting that claim go by. Her attorney, Alejandro Brito, has dropped a $1 billion warning on Hunter to retract his statements about her and apologize. The attorney's letter threatened legal action over the "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory" statements."

John Sexton asks Could the Democratic Party Split (or Will It Just Keep Fighting Internally)? At Ace, Nine Months After the Election, the New York Times Realizes That Blue Collar Voters Are Sick of Regime Neoliberalism, "You don't say. Someone's gonna rock a Pulitzer for this!"

From PM, Karen Bass says LA has 'rapid response network' to disrupt ICE arrests "In Los Angeles, we have a rapid response network where everybody is alerted. If you see masked men getting out of unmarked cars, let everybody in the area know." Lock her up! From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Socialists Plot To Attack Federal Agents. "Did you know that obstructing federal agents as they carry out lawful duties is a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code § 1501?" From the Pop Times, ‘Guatemalan Before American’ Rep Delia Ramirez Calls ICE a ‘Terrorist Organization.’

Dave Strom considers the question Are Pravda Media Attacks on Fox News Nothing But Jealousy? Not nothing, there's plenty of partisanship too. Larry Correia @monsterhunter45 "The Daily Beast is literally evil. "Vets plead with Ron DeSantis to stop killing them"? Then you look at it, and it's a DEATH ROW MURDERERS who just happened to have served in the military at some point. No matter how much you hate the media, they deserve worse." Quote Christina Pushaw @ChristinaPushaw, "Notice how this activist slop headline does not mention the heinous murders that these individuals committed to earn the death penalty. x.com/thedailybeast/…" A Driscolly post at Insty, THIS IS CNN . . .

From Twitchy, Court Rules That the Little Sisters of the Poor Provide Abortion Coverage. I thought that was done when the Supes ruled in their favor. Insty, YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT PAINFUL AND EXPENSIVE FOR THEM TO SCREW WITH YOU: Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "They won’t go ahead and leave the Little Sisters the Poor alone because they haven’t been defeated yet, and they haven’t been defeated yet in part because you’ve been helping them you invertebrate sissy joke." Quote David French @DavidAFrench "It’s absolutely insane that this is still going on. How about folks just go ahead and leave the Little Sisters of the Poor alone? x.com/becketfund/sta…" Michael Walsh @TheAmanuensis "@DavidAFrench The very first lesson kids need to learn about the Left is that they will NEVER leave you alone." At Althouse, "The anti [Obergefell] forces will get Thomas and probably Alito. Roberts was strongly against at the time but..." "...has been careful to treat it as legitimate precedent since. Gorsuch usually sides with religious litigants but also wrote Bostock, the most important gay rights decision in years, and Roberts raised eyebrows by joining him. Most people who know Barrett and Kavanaugh believe them to have zero appetite for reopening this issue. Trump isn't pushing for it. . . . Walter Olson, quoted by Ilya Somin, in "Why the Supreme Court is Highly Unlikely to Overturn Obergefell in the Kim Davis Case/My Cato Institute colleague Walter Olson explains" (Reason)."

At Fox, JONATHAN TURLEY: Dershowitz takes on pierogi politics, and Leftist hypocrisy "Legal legend says chef refused service after he wore pro-Jewish T-shirt to Martha's Vineyard farmers market." 

Roger Kimball at Spec World, is happy Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’ "Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions." 

From NYPo, Harvard touts two-time loser Stacey Abrams as ‘political mastermind’ in new seminar taught by radical professor.

Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, MS-13 Member Serving Time For Murder Sues Trump To Be ‘Recognized’ As A Woman. "After filing a number of complaints alleging attempts on his life, Contreras Aguilar took on the name Fendi G. Skyy."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Birds Win! Birds Win! up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.