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President Donald Trump threatened a full “Federal takeover of” the nation’s capital, accusing Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser of disseminating “inaccurate crime figures.”
In an early Friday morning submit on Fact Social, the president declared, “Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! The crowds are coming again, the spirit is excessive, and our D.C. Nationwide Guard and Police are doing a improbable job. They’re out in power, and are NOT PLAYING GAMES!!! As unhealthy because it sounds to say, there have been no murders this week for the primary time in reminiscence.
“Mayor Muriel Bowser should instantly cease giving false and extremely inaccurate crime figures, or unhealthy issues will occur, together with an entire and complete Federal takeover of the Metropolis! Washington D.C. will quickly be nice once more!!!” he added.
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser speaks at a press convention outdoors the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court docket Home following a court docket listening to on Aug. 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
Fox Information Digital reached out to the mayor’s workplace early on Friday morning to request a remark from Bowser.
Trump has mounted a bid to crack down on crime in D.C.
Final week he issued an order directing the mayor “present the providers of the Metropolitan Police power for Federal functions” and issued a memorandum directing the Protection Secretary “to mobilize the District of Columbia Nationwide Guard and order members to energetic service” to sort out the town’s crime drawback.
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President Trump beforehand threatened a federal takeover in D.C in a Fact Social submit earlier this month.
“If D.C. doesn’t get its act collectively, and rapidly, we could have no alternative however to take Federal management of the Metropolis, and run this Metropolis the way it ought to be run, and put criminals on discover that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” he declared in a part of an Aug. 5 submit.
Again in August of 2023 when President Joe Biden was nonetheless in workplace, Trump promoted the thought, noting in a submit that he was “CALLING FOR A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF THIS FILTHY AND CRIME RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR NATION, WHERE MURDERS HAVE JUST SHATTERED THE ALL TIME RECORD, OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE NEVER NEEN [sic] WORSE, AND TOURISTS HAVE FLED.”
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“Violent crime in DC is at its lowest stage in 30 years,” Mayor Muriel Bowser asserted in social media posts final week. “We had an unacceptable spike in 2023, so we modified our legal guidelines and methods. Now, crime ranges should not solely down from 2023, however from earlier than the pandemic. Our techniques are working, and we aren’t taking our foot off the fuel.”
