Of course President Donald Trump wants to extend his declaration that D.C. has a crime emergency. Ever since he sent in the National Guard, hardly anyone has been talking about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Few understand better than Trump how to convert a problem into an opportunity. If you can’t sue someone, distract, distract, distract. Since the start of Trump’s second term almost seven months ago, his modus operandi has been to throw as much as possible at the American people in hopes of overwhelming them beyond their capacity to process or protest.

When 100 bombs are dropping at once, how and where do you direct your attention?

This has worked rather well, given Trump’s “successes” — from deporting and/or caging undocumented immigrants to taking over the Kennedy Center. (You can hold

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