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Trump inflated DC crime stats while seizing short-term control of its police
President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.
The nation’s capital is “becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness,” Trump said at an Aug. 11 press conference. “Washington, D.C., should be one of the safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world, and we’re going to make it that.”
Many of the details Trump cited do not stand up to scrutiny.