President Donald Trump will deploy the National Guard, take control of the police force, and assign FBI agents to fight street crime as he attempts another power grab in Washington, D.C.

Despite crime falling in the nation’s capital, the president said on Tuesday that he wants to “liberate” the district from crime, vowing to allow police to “do whatever the hell they want” if provoked.

“You spit, and we hit—and they get hit real hard,” Trump said, insisting that crime in Washington is worse than the streets of Baghdad, Mexico City, and Bogota, Colombia.

Under the plan, Attorney General Pam Bondi would be put in charge of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is currently run by the D.C. mayor’s office and the chief of police.

Trump has also declared a national emergency, asked unho

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