The American president plans to “have recourse to the National Guard, perhaps very quickly”, as he had done in Los Angeles in early June.
Donald Trump often said Washington was a city “Crossrobe”, “To endemic crime”. On Wednesday, August 6, the American president again threatened to take control of the federal capital, in the hands of the democratic opposition.
“We are thinking about it, yeah, because crime is mind -blowing”he replied to journalists who questioned him about the possibility that the White House had the hand on the institutions of the city, in particular its police. “We want a large capital that is safe and we will have it. (…) The rate of crime, attacks, murders and everything else (…) We are not going to let it go and that involves using the National Guard, perhaps very quickly “he warned in allusion to this federal military force which he recently deployed in Los Angeles, against the advice of the Democratic Democrat of California, Gavin Newsom.
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1973 legislation guarantees Washington, DC (District of Columbia) to have its own assembly and its mayor elected by universal suffrage, as well as its autonomous police. The United States Congress, where Washington, DC has a representative, but without the right to vote, has the last word on city management. But the New York Republican billionaire, who has never made mystery of his detestation from Washington, promises for years “Take control” of the capital. “If DC does not act in a concerted and rapid way, we will have no choice but to take control of the municipality and to direct it as it should be”insisted Donald Trump on Tuesday August 5 on social networks. In March, the president even took a decree “To make DC safe and magnificent”.
The city was founded in 1790-91, designed by French Pierre L’Enfant, with immense arteries bordered by imposing buildings and official monuments of neoclassical architecture, on a square of ten miles (16 km) side which had been sold by the border states of Maryland and Virginia. It experienced an eventful political and social history and strong crime in the years 1980-1990.
But the number of crimes and crimes dropped by 26% over a year in the first half of this year, after a low crime rate in 2024, according to official statistics. “The presidents do not have the authority to take control of DC. Congress will have to vote a law ”challenged the district representative in the House on X, Eleanor Holmes Norton.