President Donald Trump announced Monday he will deploy National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and take control of the capital city’s police force.
Trump said the actions were necessary to “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” Statistics, however, have shown crime rates are down in D.C.
The president is also preparing for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
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In addition, Trump is still grappling with backlash on both sides of the aisle over his administration’s handling of information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced sex offender and financier who died in 2019 under circumstances many have called into question. On Monday, a judge rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to unseal transcripts from when Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was indicted by a grand jury in 2020.
