President Donald Trump declared "Liberation Day in D.C." on Monday, announcing a "public safety emergency." The president will place the city's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal control and deploy 800 D.C. National Guardsmen to "establish law order and safety" in the city. The announcement came in response to last week's assault and robbery of Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a former engineer for the Department of Government Efficiency.

Blaming the city's "abject failures of the city's leadership," the president specifically called "no cash bail" policies a disaster and vowed to challenge such policies nationwide, beginning with Chicago. Referring to "slums" and "caravans of mass youth" as he advocated more forceful police tactics, Trump appeared to contradict himself, pain

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