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The president of the United States has kicked off the week by all but declaring war on the nation’s capital. On Monday morning, President Donald Trump joined Cabinet officials at the White House for a press conference on the “ crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor ” supposedly running amuck outside the building’s walls. Calling back to his “ liberation day ” language on tariffs, Trump declared that he was “invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control,” with his attorney general and Drug Enforcement Administration chief taking charge of the cops . “In addition, I’m depl

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