[Are We Being Hoaxed?] Trump’s “DC Takeover” is Mostly Happening on TV and in Court: No Troops or Fed Cops Present in the Most Crime Ridden Hoods. No Evidence, like Iran's "obliterated" nuclear sites

From [HERE] President Donald Trump's deployment of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops has produced Humvees on the National Mall and roving bands of agents in tourist areas as part of his stated effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. 

But many residents of the city's highest-crime neighborhoods say they haven’t yet seen the results of Trump’s surge in the places it is needed the most.

"He probably doesn’t even know where Anacostia is," Charles Wilson, whose neighborhood has one of DC's highest rates of murder and violent crime. Wilson says the low-income area in DC's Ward 8 has endured several shootouts in which bullets struck houses, cars and even lodged in children’s bedrooms in recent years.

"I think this is all pomp and circumstance,” Wilson says, “to distract people from everything else he is doing."

One Anacostia resident, standing outside his home and watching the cruiser, confirmed that the officer was a neighborhood beat cop – and that he’s seen no additional MPD officers, federal agents or National Guard troops since Trump made his announcement, despite nightly gunshots, carjackings and other crime. He too declined to give his name, citing a pending background check for a job.

Back across the Anacostia river near the Capitol, the rough-and-tumble H Street commercial and nightlife corridor appeared quiet the night of Aug. 13. It was the site of one of the attacks cited by Trump – the 2023 near-fatal stabbing of an aide to Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky “by a demented lunatic as he walked down the street just absolutely for no reason.”

The only visible security presence was the occasional MPD cruiser driving by. But shop owners and barflies said the area has been swarmed by federal agents and police late at night since Trump's announcement.

Johnny Lu showed USA TODAY a video he took of a team of seven FBI, ICE and DEA agents patrolling the area late the night of Aug. 12, questioning and even arresting people for drinking and smoking marijuana in public. [it should go without saying that smoking and drinking are not violent crimes and not the stuff of an “emergency authorization” to suspend locally elected rule.]