President Donald Trump is escalating his war with Washington, D.C., government by taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the National Guard in the U.S. capital.

The president announced his aggressive new plan to fight crime and target homeless populations in Washington during a press conference on Monday, Aug. 11, including putting Attorney General Pam Bondi 's Justice Department in charge of the D.C. police.

"Today we're formally declaring a public safety emergency," he said. "It's embarrassing for me to be up here. I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital was."

He said that in addition to bringing in members of the National Guard to help patrol the streets, he will deploy other military

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