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‘Soft coup’: The Weeknight panel slams Trump’s move to federalize D.C. police
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 02:46
This morning, Trump said he would be placing the DC Police Department under federal control and deploying at least 800 National Guard troops to the district, citing what he says is outofcontrol crime with an emphasis on juvenile crime. Take a listen to how Trump falsely described the nation's capital, where more than 700,000 everyday Americans live and work. I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedum, and squalor, and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC, and ...