Trump made a much-teased announcement on Monday that he would invoke a never-before-used presidential authority to seize control of Washington, D.C.’s police department from local control to his Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The president also announced he would deploy the National Guard on the streets of the nation’s capital as a plan to “rescue” the city from rampant crime, despite the fact that crime dropped in Washington by 35 percent last year after it spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic.
