The top of the Fox News website page when I began to write my Substack this morning featured the article: “From ‘homicide capital’ to safer streets? Memphis area sees policing push.”
This seemed to me to be an attempt to address the publicity about other cities being far more dangerous than D.C. and to normalize federal intervention in them to fight crime. The sending in FBI agents is a Trump alternative to sensibly dealing with root causes of crime and looking at ways to augment local law enforcement from within. Federal grants to local police departments would make more sense than sending addtional FBI agents. Cities like Memphis already have FBI and and DEA agents fighting crime in their usual purview. Of course doing things in a sensible way wouldn’t be as flashy and self-agrandizing for Trump. It also would cede control of fighting most crime to local authorities. This is something dictators do not do.
Here are next articles shown above fromleft to right:
Justice Barrett teases new memoir in abrupt conference exit
This article isn’t really news. It just says that Barrett “emerged as the most-talked-about justice on the high court this term, confounding and frustrating observers as they tried and failed to predict how she would vote, and that “she’s been hailed as the ‘most interesting justice on the bench,’ a ‘trailblazer’ and an iconoclast, among other descriptions.”
Congressman whose DC apartment complex was robbed blasts Democrats for criticizing Trump crime crackdown
This is obviously a pro-Trump D.C. law enforcement takeover article. It is a typical first person account of crime in D.C. applauding Trump’s militarization of policing.
'The View' co-host Ana Navarro rips Melania Trump's Putin letter as 'so hypocritical you can't believe it'
The last one was actually critical of both Melania and Big Daddy.
She added, "How about the children all over the world who are not receiving U.S. aid because her husband's government decided we shouldn't be feeding starving children all over the world? How about all those kids?"
Navarro sarcastically applauded the first lady’s letter as a "good thing" for Ukrainian children but told her to "start a little closer to home."
"Maybe she should turn around and say the exact same thing to her husband, because there are children in America crying, suffering, going to bed in fear, returning to homes that are abandoned and empty, not knowing where their next meal is coming from because of what her husband is doing," Navarro said.
An interesting thing happened as I was writing this Substack. The article about crime in D.C. changed postions on the main page:
Somebody running the Fox News website decided that a story about crime in Memphis and calling it “the homicide capital” went against the Trump narrative that the nation’s capital was the crime capital. Even though it doesn’t rank number one in homicides you can be sure that Trump wishes it did.
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