Donald Trump announces drastic plan to take country's capital back claiming it's worse than the 'worst places on Earth'
Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News, Crime, Washington
Callum Jones
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Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, US News, Crime, Washington
Donald Trump has announced a drastic plan to tackle crime in Washington, D.C., despite figures reaching a 30-year low.
The president previously warned there will be no 'Mr Nice Guy' in his roll-out of a crackdown on two groups of people living in DC.
Trump detailed his vision on Truth Social for making the capital 'safer and more beautiful' than ever before by turfing out the homeless living in tents and putting criminals behind bars in one sweeping action.
The Republican president wrote: "I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.
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"The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong."
In a press conference on Monday (August 11), Trump announced a federal takeover of the capital's Metropolitan Police Department, which is one of the most drastic actions the POTUS could have took.
The Administration has also confirmed the National Guard will be deployed in DC to tackle crime, as Trump slams the capital as worse than the 'worst places on Earth'.
"This is liberation day in D.C., and we're gonna take our capital back," Trump told press at the White House.
Trump had declared a 'public safety emergency’ in Washington, stating the capital is currently a 'sanctuary for illegal alien criminals'.
"We will bring in the military if it's needed, by the way," the president added.
Speaking to press, as per Fox News, Trump said: "This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left City Council adopted no cash bail.
"Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York. And they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
"That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership, started it. But that was the one thing that's central. No-cash bail. Somebody murders somebody and they're out on no-cash bail before the day is out."
The move involves at least 500 federal law enforcement officials, raising fundamental questions about how the federal government will interact with its state and local counterparts.
The effort to take over public safety in Washington reflects the next step in Trump's law enforcement agenda after a push to stop illegal border crossings.