WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.

Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.

Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation’s capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”

Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.

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      There is no secret plan. These people are incompetent, they project every move, and if they don’t it leaks

      Also, I don’t think you understand how bad rounding up the homeless is. These are largely people with mental issues or in extreme poverty. They’re going to be put in cages and tortured. They probably aren’t going to kill them directly, but they’ll put them in conditions where they’ll die

      This is what the Nazis did to kick off the Holocaust, just stupider

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        “Infirm and lame” first, then the unions, then the socialists and communists, then the dissenters, then the “vermin”.