Today’s notice: Trump goes to Anacostia. Unmarked police vehicles in D.C. Some Democrats get their redistricting efforts underway; other Democrats want to. A busy day for Trump in federal courts. And: Confusion over the president’s mail-in voting moves.
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Hamburger helper: The White House did not reveal any details after Donald Trump told conservative radio host Todd Starnes: “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police, and with the military, of course. So we’re going to do a job.”
The comment raised a lot of eyebrows. “They’ll want to keep it like he’s just a regular dude just jumping in a patrol car, but you’re not going to be anywhere near anything dangerous,” Jason Russell, a former Secret Service agent, told NOTUS’ John T. Seward before Trump’s event.
The skeptics were right. Trump appeared with White House staff and Cabinet officials at the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility in D.C., where he made a speech, thanked assembled law enforcement and offered them burgers from the White House kitchen and pizzas from Wiseguy. He was joined by Pam Bondi, Jeanine Pirro and Doug Burgum, who announced Wednesday that his Interior Department had deputized Border Patrol agents to “serve alongside” Park Police at National Park Service sites.