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PANIC MODE: D.C. Google Searches For Terms Like “Criminal Defense Lawyers” & “Offshore Banks” Explode Since Inauguration

Lights are green, US Capitol, Washington, DC USA

With President Trump back in office, D.C. bureaucrats appear to be getting very nervous…

Since Inauguration Day, certain Google search terms have been skyrocketing in the D.C. area.

Terms like “criminal defense lawyer” and “offshore accounts” and “RICO law”…

Now, to be clear, I’m not accusing anyone in D.C. of doing anything untoward.

But, this is a very, very interesting trend.

Conservative commentator Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports was the first to point out:

Other X users then began noting other prominent searches in the D.C. area…

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Take a look at what people are finding:

From The New York Sun:

People living and working at Washington, D.C., appear to be very nervous about their potential legal exposure with President Trump back in the White House after the new president campaigned on a message of seeking “retribution” against those he thinks wronged him during the Biden years.

A Google feature that tracks search trends shows that searches for the term “criminal defense lawyer” started to soar in America’s capital city in January.

A conservative commentator, Mark Mitchell, shared a screenshot of the trends on X and noted that the concern about the need for legal counsel appears to be so high that searches for the term were nearly five times higher than in Utah, which had the second most searches for the term in the country.

In addition to this suspicious trend in Google searches, D.C. is also seeing a mass sell-off in the housing market, with thousands of homes suddenly listed for sale online.

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Just look at this:

Here’s how Newsweek is reporting on the D.C. housing market chaos:

Redfin agents in Washington, D.C., where there’s a high concentration of federal workers, have found that the city’s housing market is in a state of chaos.

Trump has signed an executive order urging federal employees to return to their offices or lose their jobs, while the federal purge ordered by Musk and DOGE has left workers wondering whether they’ll have a job to go back to at all.

The result is that federal workers in Washington, D.C., and other cities with high numbers of government employees are either feeling motivated to buy new homes or discouraged from buying or selling.

According to a recent report by John Burns Research and Consulting, which produces independent research on the U.S. housing market, Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to reduce the federal workforce might create new challenges for the already struggling U.S. housing market, “especially in the Washington, D.C., region, where federal employment comprises approximately 375,000 jobs in the workforce.”

Other states—including California, Texas and Florida, which are also home to large federal workforces—”may also experience market strain,” researchers at the company warned.

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A shrinking of the workforce in cities where federal jobs prompt people to move in and buy properties could directly affect housing demand, they added. Data shows that housing demand in Washington, D.C., had already been affected even before Trump’s inauguration: New home closings dropped by 16 percent in the year leading up to December 2024, according to John Burns’ latest D.C. market analysis, and the resale market was stagnant.

Now, I may be wrong, but it seems a lot like panic, to me.

It seems a lot like President Trump has the swamp shaking in their boots…


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