In a Gross Exaggeration of Fact, Trump Deployed the National Guard in D.C. to “Jail” Violent Criminals

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Jesus H. Christ on a Three-Day Pass, I can’t leave for a week without people talking about nuclear reactors on the moon, or presidents doing press briefings from the White House roof, or the U.S. giving up on what might be the most promising medical breakthrough since Louis Pasteur rolled out of bed one morning, or a guy shooting up the Centers for Disease Control, or our new director of the National Counterterrorism Center being a complete crackpot whom the voters of the state of Washington have blown off twice, or the confirmation of a walking box of wine to be U.S. Attorney f or Washington, D.C., or the fact that the IRS commissioner got fired because he insisted on , you know, obeying the law, or the towering pettiness on th