President Donald Trump announced a state of emergency in Washington, D.C., during a press conference Monday, claiming with no evidence that the city is gripped by a crime epidemic. He pledged to deploy the National Guard and extend the authoritarian order to other Democratic cities.

“We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that anymore—they're so, they're so far gone,” he said. “We're not going to let it happen. We’re not gonna lose our cities over this. And this will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C., and we're going to clean it up real quick. Very quickly, as they say.”

Joined by U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, Trump weaved a story of violent youth, cru

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