The president’s fixation on violent clashes between ‘scum’ and law enforcement has one glaring exception: January 6.

President Donald Trump announced Monday his intentions to deploy federal law enforcement officials to clean up Washington, DC and further combat violent crime in the city.

Speaking at a White House press conference Monday, the president invoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department…

The president has railed against crime in urban, largely liberal cities for decades, but Monday’s announcement was an extraordinary exertion of federal power over an American city.

The president’s fixation on violent clashes between ‘scum’ and law enforcement has one glaring exception: January 6.