President Donald Trump's effective crackdown on crime in the nation's capital is beginning to catch the attention of his political opponents.

Trump told reporters Friday that he has received calls from Democrats across the country asking him to clean up their cities the same way he did in Washington, D.C. In early August, Trump took bold action by federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the National Guard, quickly reducing violent crime across the city.

'Half of them got mugged and they don't want to get mugged again.'

"When we're ready, we'll go in and we'll straighten out Chicago just like we did in D.C.," Trump said in the Oval Office. "Chicago is very dangerous. ... I hate to see what's happened to Chicago. Chicago was our greatest city, actually."

"We've

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