Trump insults D.C. to get his trial moved. The city rolls its eyes.

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/10/trump-dc-trial-change-of-venue/

The former president cites D.C.’s “filth and decay” as evidence he needs a change of venue. Legal precedent isn’t on his side, and city leaders say his insults are untruths.



The dark imagery invoked by Donald Trump during his brief visit to the nation’s capital last week — “the filth and the decay … broken buildings” — renewed the stereotype of collapsing American cities as a means of calling for his federal indictment to be moved out of the District. It also reignited his hostile relationship with a city he said needed to be taken over by the federal government when he occupied the White House.

Trump rarely ventured out into the District during his four years as president, other than to travel to the downtown hotel that bore his name at the time, and he did not attempt to win the hearts and minds of D.C.’s overwhelmingly Democratic voters through political rallies or meetings with city leaders. He received less than 5.5 percent of D.C.’s popular vote in 2020, and 4 percent in 2016. He and his lawyers cite such numbers in floating the idea of a change of venue for his trial on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election, as well as his idea for a federal takeover of the District, which he again raised on Truth Social in recent days.

“No way I can get a fair trial, or even close to a fair trial, in Washington, D.C.,” the 77-year-old Florida man who summers in New Jersey said last week. “There are many reasons for this, but just one is that I am calling for a federal takeover of this filthy and crime ridden embarrassment to our nation.”

The former president also falsely claimed that homicides in D.C. “just shattered the all-time record” and “other violent crimes have never been worse.”

Nice try

[SouthernDem4ever]

1. His idea of a fair trial is a tribunal of white supremacists

with Marjorie Traitor Green as the judge.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. 'Filth and decay...'

Projecting again.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Republicans like Greene, McCarthy, Gaetz, Jordan, etc., make DC "FILTHY" by their presence.

[niyad]

3. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, orange, RAPIST, TRAITOR**.

[Chainfire]

4. DC improved a great deal when Trump left.

[Hortensis]

5. Good for "the city." Lol, I LOVED his "filth and decay" description.

Just looked since I don't live there -- On the order of 20 million Americans visit DC each year.

[elleng]

7. Ignoramus.

'The Feds' took over the city many years ago.

The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. The Home Rule Act devolves certain powers of the United States Congress to the local government, which consists of a mayor and a 13-member council. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_District_of_Columbia

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 is an organic act enacted by Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution that formally placed the District of Columbia under the control of Congress and organized the unincorporated territory within the District into two counties: Washington County to the north and east of the Potomac River and Alexandria County to the west and south; left in place and made no change to the status of the charters of the existing cities of Georgetown and Alexandria; and established a court in each of the new counties,[32] with the common law of both Maryland and Virginia continuing to remain in force within the District.[33]

The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single government for the federal district.[34]

The District is not a U.S. state and therefore has no voting representation in the Congress. D.C. residents elect a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives, currently Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C. At-Large), who may sit on committees, participate in debate, and introduce legislation, but cannot vote on the House floor. The District has no official representation in the United States Senate. Neither chamber seats the District's elected "shadow" representative or senators. D.C. residents are subject to all U.S. federal taxes.[26] In the financial year 2012, D.C. residents and businesses paid $20.7 billion in federal taxes; more than the taxes collected from 19 states and the highest federal taxes per capita.[27]

[IronLionZion]

8. There is less tear gas, rubber bullets, and COVID deaths in DC after he left

dude's last year as president was absolutely awful