By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would expand his crime crackdown to Chicago, using federal powers to intervene in another city governed by Democrats, and threatened to take full control of Washington, D.C., rather than only its policing.

Saying without evidence that violent crime was out of control in the nation’s capital, Trump last week deployed National Guard soldiers and federal agents on the streets with a mandate to reduce crime.

“It was horrible and Mayor (Muriel) Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long, because we take it over with the federal government, running it like it’s supposed to be run,” Trump told reporters.

Recent statistics, which Trump dismissed, show crime has declin

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