Donald Trump uses the National Guard in Washington for “security emergency”

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Donald Trump used the National Guard in Washington and took control of the city’s police in the recent exhibition of the presidential power in cities in the United States.

The President declared an “emergency of public security” in the US capital on Monday and called for the first time a local law that was reserved for “special conditions for an emergency nature” to put the metropolese police under direct federal control and use 800 National Guard troops.

“It becomes a situation of complete and total lawlessness”, ” Trump card Said, flanked by high-ranking government officials, including the US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who took control of the police in Washington.

“I cancel a historical action to save the capital of our nation against crimes, bloodshed, bedlam and misery and worse,” he added. “This is the day of liberation in DC and we will withdraw our capital.”

While the capital is one of the ten most deadliest cities in the United States, data from the city are compiled Police authority showed that murders between 2023 and 2024 have dropped 32 percent to the lowest level since 2019. A further 12 percent was declined in 2025 compared to the previous year.

It is Trump’s latest efforts to use military military power on the US floors with missions to take action against criminal illegal immigrants. His actions have triggered legal battles that have raised basic constitutional issues about the power of the president.

The federal control over the police is expected to take 30 days, but can change according to an official from the White House. According to DC Law, a longer time frame would require laws from the congress.

“(W) Hile This campaign is disturbing and unprecedented today, I cannot say that in view of the rhetoric of the past, we are completely surprised,” said Muriel Bowser, the democratic mayor of Washington, on Monday.

Bowser admitted on Sunday that there was a “spike” in crime in 2023, but said that there was a strong decline in the past two years.

“We do not experience a top of the crime,” she told MSNBC and added that she was “concerned” about the national guard, which enforced the local laws because it was not “her main task”.

When asked whether the President could take over the police department of the district, Bowser said: “There are very specific things in our law that would enable the President to have more control over our police department. At the moment there are none of these conditions.”

The Attorney General of District of Columbia, Brian Schwalb, called Trump’s movements “unprecedented, unnecessary and illegal”.

“There is no emergency in the Columbia district,” he said in a post on X.

The District of Columbia is a unique US jurisdiction – a small federal district without a state. While the congress has the last word about his household and his laws, he has no coordination on the Capitol Hill. The National Guard reports exclusively to the president and not to a governor of the state.

Trump criticizes the authorities in Washington, a democratic stronghold, for years. In March he signed an executive order to remove the homeless warehouse in the district, to increase the resources of the law enforcement authorities and to clamp them illegally immigration.

“We have to get rid of sanctuary cities as soon as possible,” said Trump on Monday and renewed attacks against jurisdiction that restrict or restrict cooperation with the federal immigration authorities.

The Democrats reset against the presidents’ orders. “Donald Trump has no basis to adopt the local police authority,” wrote Hakeem Jeffries, the house minor leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a contribution about X. “and no credibility rightly and order.”

The President this year the National Guard in California was federal at the beginning of this year and used thousands of troops to contain immigration and stop protests in Los Angeles.

Although many troops have been withdrawn since then, the democratic governor of the state of Gavin Newsom in question questions his commitment in court. The process started in San Francisco on Monday.