How did the president try to justify the “public safety emergency” he used to deploy the National Guard to Washington and seize control of its local police force?

He said there was crime — “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.”

“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” said President Donald Trump in a stark attack on the nation’s capital. The solution? Military force. “We’re going to put it in control very quickly, like we did in the southern border.” The president later described Washington as more violent and dangerous than some of “the worst places on earth.”

None of this is true. The Justice Department itself announced in January that crime in the capital is, according to

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