Political commentator Tara Setmayer ripped President Donald Trump’s base for believing that he “backs the blue,” hours after he announced plans to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.

Setmayer, a former GOP communications director, responded to Trump’s decision on Monday to take control of Washington, D.C.’s police department and activate around 800 members of the National Guard in an effort to restore order in the nation’s capital — despite city officials emphasizing that crime levels have already begun dropping.

In early January, federal officials found that total violent crime for 2024 reached a 30-year-low. Since then, data released by the Metropolitan Police Department shows that it has plummeted by 26%. The total level of all crime, when comparing figures to las

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