He’s tried to use US Troop’s in California….
THAT brought in some violence….
DC Crime has been dropping…..
He’s now withdrawing the soldier’s from California….
Now?
He’s BACK at trying to exert HIS will on a Democratic led Governance possibly with Militarty Troops….
More ‘Noise’ showing his annoyance at things ….
President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on D.C.’s right to self-governance Wednesday, saying he was considering federalizing the D.C. police department and bringing in the National Guard “maybe very quickly” as he continued to cast the Democratic-led capital as a place mired in violence.
“The crime is ridiculous,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, the same week that an attack of a prominent former DOGE staffer captured his attention and reinspired his threat of a federal takeover. “This has to be the best-run place in the country, not the worst-run place in the country. And it has so much potential.”
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Trump also said Congress should explore overturning the Home Rule Act — the decades-old law that gives D.C. residents some semblance of political autonomy with the ability to elect a mayor and council members.
“The lawyers are already studying it,” Trump said Wednesday.
Violent crime has been receding in D.C. the past two years, reversing a generational spike in killings in 2023 that rendered the nation’s capital one of America’s deadliest cities, prompted Congress to block revisions to the city’s criminal code and thrust the city into a presidential election cycle. On the campaign trail, Trump made D.C. an avatar for dysfunction, reviving past criticisms of local leaders he says are not doing enough to abate crime and uncleanliness.
He has long derided the capital as a “dirty, crime-ridden death trap” and pledged to turn it around. This spring, he ordered the creation of the “D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force,” a vehicle for his long-held fixations on quality-of-life issues in the city, including homeless encampments and graffiti, and his broader mission to ramp up deportations and arrests nationwide.
The president amplified his campaign Tuesday, sharing a photo of a young man, beaten and bloodied, who he said had been beaten by “local thugs.” A police report and people familiar with the incident identified the victim as Edward Coristine, known by the nickname “Big Balls”….