What happened

The Trump administration has instructed prosecutors in Washington, D.C., to seek maximum criminal charges against people caught up in President Donald Trump's federal clampdown in the capital, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office told Reuters Tuesday. At the same time, prosecutors in Pirro's office have been "instructed not to seek felony charges against people who are carrying rifles or shotguns" in the city, The Washington Post said, even as the White House "boasts of seizing dozens of guns" as part of Trump's D.C. operation.

Who said what

The Justice Department Tuesday said 465 arrests had been made in D.C. since Trump federalized law enforcement there Aug. 7, including 206 people nabbed for being in the U.S. illegally. But neither the feds nor the D.C. Metropolit

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