President Donald Trump’s federal forces are “hitting the streets” of Washington, D.C., while critics claim the takeover is an attempted distraction from the so-called Epstein files fallout.
Trump announced Monday he was placing the D.C. police department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” despite crime figures declining for the past two years.
