Trump brings D.C. police under federal control, deploys National Guard
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back. ~Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he would act to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., including by deploying the National Guard.
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re going to take our capital back,” he said.
“Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,” he added. “And placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi will assume control of the police department, he added.
Trump went on to lament a long-term rise in crime in the city, highlighting that D.C.’s crime rates had surpassed the capital’s of many other nations, including Mexico City.
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher,” he added.
Trump went on to list major criminal incidents in the city, including the recent assault on former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer Edward “big balls” Coristine and the carjacking of Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, in the Navy Yard neighborhood. He also referenced the recent shooting of a congressional intern, an assault on one of Sen. Rand Paul’s, R-Ky., staffers, and the murder of a former Trump administration official.
He further pointed to the city’s implementation of no cash bail and vowed to eliminate the statute through Congress.
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Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.
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