The federal government’s takeover of Washington, D.C., is well underway with the Trump administration already touting allegedly plummeting crime rates as residents of the nation’s capital are voicing their frustration with members of the National Guard and federal law enforcement patrolling their streets.

On Friday, President Donald Trump signaled that he’s ready to take his crackdown nationwide, eyeing other cities across the country with Democratic leadership. “Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after this,” Trump said, speaking from the Oval Office.

The president told reporters that Chicagoans are “screaming” for the federal government to intervene in the city, saying, “They

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