WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Democratic mayor of Washington thinks that achieving statehood would cure all of the city’s woes.

Needing another Democratic state like a hole in the head, however, President Donald Trump thinks the District of Columbia needs a good dose of martial law or the next best thing.

From the White House on Aug. 11, Trump declared a state of emergency in the nation’s capital, co-opted the city’s Metropolitan Police Department into federal service and announced the deployment of the National Guard to combat crime in the streets of Washington.

Those steps are needed, he declared, to respond to rising violence that “… urgently endangers public servants, citizens and tourists; disrupts safe and secure transportation and the proper functioning of the federal government; and fo

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