BREAKING: Trump placing D.C. police under federal control, deploying National Guard

I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor, and worse. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I'm officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is.And placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, DC. And they're going to be ...