President Donald Trump in July. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) By Emily Davies , Olivia George and Meagan Flynn

A protégé of Elon Musk and former DOGE staffer was injured in an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning in D.C., a police report said, in an attack that captured the attention of President Donald Trump and reinspired his threats to take over the nation’s capital.

“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

Billionaire Elon Musk, who helmed the U.S. DOGE Service, wrote on X that a DOGE “team member” was attacked, and Musk called to fed

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