Donald Trump announced that he was deploying the National Guard in Washington , D.C. and placing the city’s Metropolitan Police under federal control.

Portraying the capital city as a crime-ridden hellhole, Trump told reporters that the city “is becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness.”

“We’re taking our capital back,” Trump said.

While there is a crime problem in D.C., the rate actual fell last year.

More to come.

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