President Trump using the National Guard to get control of crime in the District of Columbia has the Democrats, well, basically defending violent crime. The Dems' latest display of party "priorities" has alarmed even some people on MSNBC.
Among the lefties who are troubled by Trump taking on crime in DC via the National Guard is New York Gov. Kathy Hochul:
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday strongly condemned the prospect of President Donald Trump forcefully deploying the National Guard in New York City, an idea he floated after doing the same in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The governor didn’t say what exactly she might – or frankly could – do in order to prevent such a move, but she suggested that she would keep the state’s National Guard members busy to make it harder for Trump to federalize them.
Speaking to reporters at an unrelated press conference in Queens, Hochul pointed to decreases in major crime in the city over the past several years and praised the work of the New York City Police Department. “If he crosses that bright line and decides that the 32,000 dedicated members of the NYPD are not doing their jobs, (if) he's going to stand there and insult our law enforcement officers, I think there'll be people in outrage over that alone,” she said.
Many Democrats are implying, if not flat-out saying, that deploying the National Guard is an unprecedented abuse of executive power and basically only something a dictator would do.
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As usual, the Dems are hoping everybody's memory started on January 20th of last year as evidenced by this flashback to Gov. Hochul joining the collective brain trust on "The View":
Whoa, there Gov. Mussolini — @FoxNews just dug up this clip of @GovKathyHochul last year bragging about calling in the National Guard to help make NYC's subways safer pic.twitter.com/fDZCZdsly6
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 13, 2025
As usual, it's OK when THEY do it.
HYPOCRITE — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul touted deploying the National Guard to the New York City subway in March 2024, but now Democrats are ATTACKING Trump for doing the same thing in Washington, D.C.
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) August 13, 2025
Sandra Smith: “It’s not like Democrats haven’t been for bringing in the… pic.twitter.com/WS9KcxuD73
Everybody say it all at once:
It’s (D)ifferent when they do it. https://t.co/aC3IfHYf9R
— Kristi (@TheyCallMeNans) August 13, 2025
The Dems should trademark that!
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