The Department of Justice's site reads that violent crime in D.C. is "the lowest it has been in over 30 years." That data is from the current Department of Justice under the Trump administration. Still, Trump insists that crime is out of control in the city, so he's using that as an excuse for his federal takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police department and a deployment of its National Guard. And, of course, Trump blamed Nancy Pelosi for not calling the National Guard on Jan. 6th.

However, Pelosi did not command the National Guard. Trump did. So, conservative influencers who claimed that Trump could not call the National Guard at the time must be scrambling to scrub their social media accounts of any reference to that.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott responded on CNN to Trump’s criticism

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