A lefty MSNBC analyst and her “liberal hypocrisy” have been savagely mocked after she criticized President Trump’s crime clampdown within the nation’s capital — regardless of complaining about rampant theft in DC simply months in the past.
Ashley Parker, who can be a senior nationwide political correspondent for The Washington Submit, penned an article for The Atlantic on Friday describing Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard and different federal officers to DC as an “occupation” that had made life “terrifying” for undocumented immigrants.
“To some — particularly undocumented immigrants — the Guard presence is disconcerting at greatest, terrifying at worst,” wrote Parker and her co-author, Nancy A. Youssef, within the piece titled, “Why Is the Nationwide Guard in DC? Even They Don’t Know.”
“It was clear that nearly nobody felt notably good concerning the association: not the Nationwide Guardsmen, a lot of whom clearly didn’t wish to be there, leaving their households and jobs to be able to unfold mulch and decide up trash; and never the residents, a lot of whom have been livid with the occupation of their metropolis or, worse, afraid of what the army’s presence portended for them and their family members,” the article continued.
The piece additionally mocked the Nationwide Guard’s presence within the metropolis as “sitcom-esque” and “their backdrops farcical,” whereas quoting sources evaluating them to gardeners.
Following the article’s publication, a current social media put up of Parker’s complaining about crime within the metropolis went viral.
“After one other bike was stolen final night time, my husband and I spotted our life as DC owners by the numbers contains: 1 stolen automobile; 2 stolen scooters/Vespas; 3 stolen bikes; a partridge in a pear tree; and so forth.,” the journalist fumed within the put up on X shared on June 24.
“This you?” one X consumer wrote in response to the put up, sharing a hyperlink to Parker’s put up selling her new piece in The Atlantic.
“Lmao come on now,” a second wrote underneath a separate put up.
“Any stolen objects the previous few weeks Ashley?” one other consumer requested Parker.
“The liberal hypocrisy is deafening,” wrote one other X consumer.
Parker didn’t reply instantly to The Submit’s requests for remark.
On Monday, President Trump claimed DC was “now a crime-free zone” because of his deployment of the Nationwide Guard.
Praising the town’s Mayor Muriel Bowser for cooperating together with his administration, he referred to as on different blue-state governors to let him do the identical.
“Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has grow to be highly regarded as a result of she labored with me and my nice individuals in bringing CRIME all the way down to just about NOTHING in D.C.,” Trump posted on his Reality Social Monday.
“Her statements and actions have been optimistic, as a substitute of others like [Illinois Gov. JB] Pritzker, [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore, [California Gov. Gavin] Newscum [Newsom], and the 5% approval rated Mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time making an attempt to justify violent Crime, as a substitute of working with us to fully ELIMINATE it, which we’ve got completed in Washington, D.C., NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE,” he added.
