President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would take control of the police force in Washington, D.C. and deploy 800 National Guard troops to quell crime and remove homeless encampments in the city.

Flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump said he was deploying troops to “help reestablish law, order and public safety” in the nation’s capital, which he claimed had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals." It comes just months after federal officials announced that violent crime in the city hit a 30-year low .

The move is the latest in a string of military deployments on home soil by Trump that experts say represents a marked departure from his predecessors.

It comes just two months after Trump deployed California’s Na

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