DC business owner warns of 'out of control'
prices and crime after 52 restaurants
shut down
Posted By: Imright, 12/29/2023 7:45:22 PM
Dozens of restaurants in Washington D.C. have closed their doors amid high rent costs and surging crime, with one business owner admitting he is tired of staff and customers being threatened, robbed and carjacked. According to the Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Association, 52 restaurants in D.C. have shuttered in 2023. The nation's capital is grappling with an escalating crime surge, having surpassed a 20-year record-high in homicides with 261 murders as of Dec. 14, according to Metropolitan Police Department data. Robberies are also skyrocketing, increasing 69% year-to-date, while theft is up 24%.
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At around 1:30 a.m. Biden called the White House switchboard and asked to speak with Obama, according to the forthcoming book, The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party by Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen.
First lady Jill Biden spoke to teachers and students at a high school in Utah on Tuesday, but the visit came with some unfortunate optics that apparently no one who organized the event considered beforehand.
The wife of President Joe Biden paid a visit to a school in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
The school chosen was Hunter High School. (X Video) Given that the first lady’s eldest stepchild, Hunter Biden, has become synonymous to millions of Americans with drug use, an image of her speaking behind a podium with the words “Hunter High” went viral on the social media platform X: (X Photo)
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that “American democracy could end with the election” of former President Donald Trump.
Holder said, “I think a second Trump term, and this is something voters need to keep in mind, a second Trump term would have a politicized, weaponized United States Department of Justice.” He continued, “You have to look at what it is they’re talking about. That is the Trump campaign, the former president himself and think of the America they’re trying to create. You would have a president who is beyond the reach of the law,
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This move comes as a response to the efforts in Colorado, Maine and other states where leftists have sought to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot.
The argument of these former AGs was drafted with the help of law professors and is rock solid.
Breitbart News reports: Former Attorneys General File Amicus Brief Insisting Trump Constitutionally Qualified for Ballot
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What that says is that the former president's closest advisors
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Electric Vehicle Push is Putting National
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