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President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration would take over the District of Columbia police and also deploy 800 national guard soldiers and new federal law enforcement units in the nation’s capital.

"This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back," Trump said at a White House news conference flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior administration officials. "It’s going to be a model. And then we’ll look at other cities also. But other cities are studying what we’re doing," Trump said. "We’re going to have a safe, beautiful capital, and it’s going to happen very quickly."

Democratic leaders responded with their usual eloquence. "Viol

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