As President Donald Trump and his administration pursue a hostile takeover of Washington, D.C., the city’s mayor is skipping town for a bit.

Mayor Muriel Bowser ’s office confirmed reports on Thursday that she left D.C. for Martha’s Vineyard. “The mayor has a family commitment and had to pick up her daughter. She will return to the District tomorrow,” her office said in a statement to ABC News .

Bowser’s trip comes amid Trump’s attempt to wrest control of D.C. from the local officials duly elected by its already disenfranchised population. The city this week has been swarmed with federal law enforcement conducting a performative shock-and-awe operation on the orders of the president, who on Monday signed an executive order declaring a “crime emergency” despite violent crime b

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