Trump seizes D.C. police | Alice in Wonderland
It is important to understand the situation in Washington, D.C. is unique.
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When The President Becomes The Police
Joyce Vance
Aug 12, 2025
The Posse Comitatus Act reserves police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances. This principle can be extended to the National Guard when a president federalizes a state’s troops. That’s the very issue Judge Charles Breyer is considering in Newsom v. Trump this week: whether Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles crossed the line into domestic law enforcement.
When Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C. taking control of the Metropolitan Police and announcing his intent to bring the National Guard in to help, the rules that apply everywhere else were not in play. The situation in Washington is unique, and it’s important for us to understand what it is and what it isn’t.
False pretense
It’s deeply concerning that Trump’s predication for seizing control in the District—allegedly out of control crime—is a lie. I shared the statistics last night, which show that crime is actually decreasing in the District of Columbia. But because the D.C. Home Rule Act allows the president to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department for 30 days in an emergency, and because the law doesn’t carefully define what qualifies as an emergency, Trump will likely get his 30 days. That conclusion was reinforced during D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s press conference, where she called Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented," but did not threaten to sue. City officials have likely looked at the law and concluded Trump has enough room under the vague rule to get away with using false pretenses to take over the police.
The legal landscape that permits Trump to control police and the Guard
Police: § 1-207.40 of the Code of the District of Columbia allows a president to take control of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes in an emergency. To keep control for more than 48 hours, he must notify the chair and the ranking member of the Committees on the District of Columbia in Congress. Trump has already done this. That means he can hold onto control for 30 days, but no longer, unless Congress authorizes it. If you tune into Steve Vladeck’s and my Substack Live conversation tonight, you know that we both believe congressional Democrats could filibuster to prevent that from happening.
Déjà vu
This unprecedented exercise of federal authority, pushing the limits of presidential power, is a serious issue. It’s more of what we’ve seen from the start: Trump’s effort to aggregate power in his own hands. At the press conference today, Secretary of Defense Hegseth said, at Trump's direction, there were "other National Guard units, other specialized units" that the Department of Defense is prepared to bring into the nation’s capital. The question is, as always, how far Trump is willing to go here.
Power grab
Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Rick Stengel saw a dark motivation behind Trump’s actions when he tweeted, “Crime in DC is at a 30-year low. It's not even in top 10 dangerous cities in US. Throughout history, autocrats use a false pretext to impose government control over local law enforcement as a prelude to a more national takeover. That's far more dangerous than the situation he says he is fixing.” It’s hard to miss the comparison to other leaders who came to power through an election and then took total control. Adolph Hitler was appointed Chancellor following victories by his Nazi Party. After that, he used the Reichstag fire to claim communists were planning a violent uprising as a pretext for seizing power. Ignoring history and its lessons about the potential for dictators to emerge would be unwise.
Alice in Wonderland
Because they are not true, Trump’s complaints about crime in D.C. as the trigger for all of this have a surreal, Alice in Wonderland quality to them. Nothing makes sense. And it’s more than just the lie about crime: Trump declined to deploy the Guard on January 6—when doing so would have been entirely appropriate, claiming he lacked the power to do so. Yet now, he has suddenly, and without a valid reason, ordered the troops to mobilize.
If Trump was really concerned about crime in Washington, D.C., you’d expect to see him offering services for homeless people, especially veterans, instead of calling for them to be locked up. There would be community policing by trained professionals, not dropped in National Guard troops schooled in crowd control and riot dispersal, not crime prevention.
This is one of those moments where we must watch what they do. Trump is setting the stage, but the play he intends to put on isn’t clear yet. Continues at https://joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-president-becomes-the-police
Alice in Wonderland: The Power of Applied Confusion
Forbidden.News
Aug 11, 2025
Understanding the "Alice in Wonderland technique" can help empower you to identify it when it's happening, to help you distance yourself from the fragmentation and cognitive dissonance it is attempting to induce.
The purpose of this technique is not just to obliterate the normal but to replace that which is normal with the mindbogglingly bizarre, so the person goes into a state of deep trauma so awful, they would rather give up their secrets and return to a reality that makes sense, than to continue with any more of this.
In this short clip, Chase Hughes, former US Government interrogation and PSYOPS expert describes how the Alice and Wonderland technique is implemented to a T in a format like YouTube Shorts. He says:
"Your brain versus a $1 trillion computer, you're going to lose. I'm going to lose. And I can spot all of the things – and I'm still going to lose...Technology has outpaced our brain's ability to adapt. Period. We cannot adapt. Our brains haven't changed in 200,000 years."
But I don't think what he says should stop us from trying. It didn't stop Hughes from developing what he calls the Behavioral Table of Elements, that outlines over 100 human behaviors ranked by their likelihood of deception, stress, or emotional openness, built on over 40 peer-reviewed studies and observational field data. It's a toolkit for behavioral control, not just a chart.
Understanding the manipulations will help you assert your cognitive boundaries and help you protect yourself from incessant 5th Generation Warfare attacks.
This 17-minute clip is actually worth your time. Watch the video or read the transcript at https://forbiddennews.substack.com/p/alice-in-wonderland-the-power-of
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