WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump declared victory in the nation's capital, 10 days after announcing the federal takeover of the Washington metro police force to “rescue” the city from crime.

Trump on Aug. 21 met with law enforcement officers who had been deployed to patrol the city he recently described as rampant with “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor.”

The president arrived at the United States Park Police facility in Anacostia Park Thursday evening and offered words of encouragement to law enforcement officers. He brought hamburgers and pizzas for the crowd.

“The numbers are down like we wouldn’t believe, but we believe it,” he told the crowd. Among those who attended were officers from the National Guard, FBI, U.S. Marshals and the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Depart

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