WASHINGTON — Just before mid-day Thursday, crews here moved into a grassy park near the Lincoln Monument in the nation's capital, dismantling one of the small homeless encampments that's drawn the ire of President Trump .

David Beatty, age 65, looked on as a bulldozer scooped up tents and other belongings and shoveled them into a garbage truck.

"It just feels wrong to me. The idea that we're poor makes them uncomfortable. They don't want to be reminded that poor people exist," he said. Asked where he expects to sleep, Beatty shook his head and said quietly, "I don't know. I don't know."

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During a press conference this week at the White House, Trump lumped unhoused Americans like Beatty, together wit

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