President Trump has fulfilled his promise to start cracking down on crime in the nation's capital. The president says crime in Washington is out of control, so he's using the federal government to take charge and go after criminals.

The president is calling it "Liberation Day in D.C." But D.C.'s mayor is pushing back.

The president is calling up the National Guard in the nation's capital, saying it's needed to crack down on crime there. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse," he announced on Monday.

President Trump, who has been critical of D.C.'s crime rate for years, is temporarily taking control of the D.C. police after a former government staffer who used to work for Elon Musk was violently attacked in a

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