“Your Politically Motivated Letter Is Impotent” * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft

The radical, crime-loving leftists on the D.C. City Council just tried to pull a fast one, but the Department of Justice wasn’t having any of it.

In an OUTRAGEOUS and frankly SICK move, the D.C. City Council sent letters to 10 state governors demanding they pull their brave National Guard members out of our nation’s capital. After President Trump stepped in to save their failing, crime-ridden city, these local Democrats now want to kick out the very heroes keeping their streets safe!

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the streets of Washington D.C. had devolved into an absolute third-world war zone under local Democrat leadership before President Trump declared a national crime emergency in August 2025 and brought back LAW AND ORDER!

In a scorching letter, Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General unloaded on the Council, accusing them of feigning “ignorance of the historic public safety strides made in our Nation’s capital” while showing “callousness—instead of compassion and care—toward your constituents, who now live in a city with far less violence and fear thanks to the National Guard and the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force.”

“Let me be clear, your council has no power to demand that governors remove their brave men and women from serving in uniform in our Nation’s capital. Your politically-motivated letter is impotent theatrics not worth the paper it’s written on, and D.C. is a much safer place no matter what you say. Because you refuse to speak the truth about the life-preserving work of the Task Force, the truth will speak for itself,” McDonald wrote in the letter.

McDonald didn’t stop there. He threw their own hypocrisy right in their faces, reminding them that just a couple of years ago, D.C. Councilmember Trayon White was literally begging for the National Guard to step in because the city was a “war zone.”

President Trump ordered the mobilization of the D.C. National Guard on August 11, 2025, directing the Defense Department to coordinate with governors on additional personnel considered necessary to restore law and order. The presidential memorandum stated that the deployment would continue until the president determined that order had been restored.

The Justice Department says the resulting federal operation has produced more than 16,000 arrests and removed nearly 2,000 firearms from the streets. Its D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force page also credits the federal partnership with disrupting gangs and drug-trafficking organizations.

McDonald said Guard personnel have increased law-enforcement visibility, protected critical infrastructure, assisted stranded motorists, intervened during assaults and provided emergency medical assistance—including administering life-saving NARCAN.

“These men and women represent the best our country has to offer,” he wrote, calling them “true American heroes.”

“You should withdraw your letter and dedicate your remaining time in public service to correcting D.C.’s laws to ensure criminals are punished and the public is protected—not the other way around.”

PSA: The D.C. City Council sent letters to 10 governors whose National Guard members are serving in D.C., demanding that these brave men and women be removed from our nation’s capital.

This Department of Justice will not stand for these politically motivated demands. We will… pic.twitter.com/tgCMTDLB1G

— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) August 12, 2026