President Donald Trump said he will deploy National Guard troops to Washington D.C., as part of an aggressive federal effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.
“We’re taking our capital back,” Trump said August 11. “We’re taking it back.”
Trump said the federal government would take control of Washinton’s Metropolitan Police Department.
“Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR,” Trump wrote in an Aug. 11 post on Truth Social, his social media platform. “I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!!”
Trump in an earlier social media post on Aug. 10 said that the homeless in D.C. “have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” but he did not elaborate on how that will be accomplished.
Trump’s actions follow a high-profile assault of staffer of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 19-year-old Edward Coristine, that occured in the early morning hours of Aug. 3. during an attempted carjacking.
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Trump seemed to suggest he could later pursue federal intervention to combat crime in places like Chicago and Los Angeles.
“We’re not going to lose our cities over this,” Trump said as he railed against what he called rising crime rates. “And this will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick, very quickly.”
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Ahead of Trump’s press conference, White House officials handed a chart to reporters in the press briefing room detailing how Washington D.C.’s homicide rate is greater than those of several foreign capitals.
With about 27 murders per every 100,000 residents, Washington, D.C., has a higher homicide rate than Bogota, Colombia; Mexico City; Islamabad, Pakistain; Lima, Peru; and Ottawa, Canaday, among others, according to the chart.
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