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Far-Left DC Mayor Changes Course, Praises President-Elect Trump: ‘Great Meeting’

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Muriel Bowser, the far-left mayor of Washington, D.C. who presides over a city where more than nine in 10 voters opted for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, suddenly has kind words to say about President-elect Donald Trump.

Bowser and Trump had a “great meeting,” the Democrat announced in a statement on X. “Today, President Trump and I had a great meeting to discuss our shared priorities for the President’s second term. President Trump and I both want Washington, DC to be the best, most beautiful city in the world and we want the capital city to reflect the strength of our nation,” Bowser said. The mayor offered “collaboration” between her government and the feds, “especially around our federal workforce, underutilized federal buildings, parks and green spaces, and infrastructure.

“I am optimistic that we will continue to find common ground with the President during his second term, and we look forward to supporting a successful inauguration on January 20,” she added.

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Observers may be forgiven for being confused about Bowser’s sudden bonhomie with the Republican leader, given the choice words she’s had for him in the past. After protestors defaced an area outside the White House in 2020, the progressive politician declared that the space would be renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza,” according to Fox News. At the time, Bowser also feuded with Trump about the use of federal authorities to quell protests in the nation’s capital, home to a majority Black electorate roiled by the death of George Floyd.

The federal workforce of Washington, D.C., hasn’t been spared from years of rampant urban crime. In addition to muggings of several congressional staffers, a congressman was robbed at gunpoint last year. President-elect Trump promised to reverse that trend on the campaign trail. “We will rebuild our cities, including our capital in Washington DC, which has become a very dangerous and badly managed place. We’re going to make them safe, clean and beautiful again. We will teach our children to love our country, to honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag,” Trump said at his sold-out rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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Bowser previously threw herself into the middle of the J6 congressional select committee, telling lawmakers that “white supremacists” tricked law enforcement into believing they were at the Capitol to protest peacefully. “People thought they were friendly to law enforcement and that they loved their country,” Bowser testified in 2021, The Hill previously reported. “People didn’t think that these white nationalists would overthrow the Capitol building.”

Her belief that President-elect Trump encouraged violence that day was reiterated as recently as September when she posted on X that the Republican “dispatched” a “violent mob” to attack police officers. “On January 6, Trump summoned a violent mob and dispatched them to the US Capitol,” Bowser wrote on X. “Trump never offered DC 10,000 troops, and the President — not the DC Mayor — controls the DC National Guard. Unlike Trump, we immediately offered the DC Metropolitan Police Department to support the US Capitol Police. We owe the DC Police and the US Capitol Police our never ending gratitude for saving our Capitol and democracy.”

The sudden change of tune by Mayor Bowser follows similarly friendly overtures extended by Democrats professing their eagerness to find “common ground” with a man they just months ago labeled an existential threat to democracy and America’s most cherished institutions. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has suggested he may vote to confirm Defense Department secretarial nominee Pete Hegseth, and earlier this month, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) became the first member of his party to join the congressional DOGE Caucus, an extension of the new department to be spearheaded by Elon Musk.

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