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President Donald Trump challenged the liberal media during a press conference Monday when he announced that he would be taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying the National Guard.

"I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but you don’t want to get — you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed," Trump said . "And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened. And so you can be anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets. You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something. And you don’t have that now."

Trump claimed that "the murder rate in

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