About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

The Trump administration is preparing to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, a U.S. official told Reuters.

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President claims US capital ‘overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals … and homeless people’

The president also takes control of the city's police force, as the mayor rejects his claims of a crime wave.

President Trump painted a dark picture of crime in the nation's capitol as he uses his executive authority to seize the city's police force

Trump takes control of police, deploys National Guard in a move DC-rights activist calls ‘just authoritarianism’.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an…

Although crime has fallen in the US capital, Donald Trump is framing it as a crackdown on lawlessness and echoing his hard-line immigration tactics.

No one believes that the deployment of troops to America’s most liberal, most racially diverse, and most culturally thriving cities is about solving a real problem

Mayor Bowser disputes Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play.

Trump sends National Guard to D.C. to take over police department, sparking tension with Mayor Bowser over crime rates.

President Trump has activated 800 National Guard members to address what he calls a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. — even though data shows violent crime rates are falling.

President Trump has activated 800 National Guard members to address what he calls a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. — even though data shows violent crime rates are falling.

President Donald Trump is dehumanizing the residents of Washington, DC – a majority Black jurisdiction – to stop a fictional crime wave.

About 800 national guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’

The DC takeover is, first and foremost, an attempt to deflect from the Epstein case. But that’s not all that’s going on

Trump vowed earlier this week to clean up the streets of the capital and has already sent hundreds of troops with the National Guard in to clean up crime.