Donald Trump announced on Monday to maintain order in the capital Washington under the control of the federal authorities, as well as the deployment of soldiers of the National Guard, exceptional measures for this city which he says “invaded by violent gangs”.
The soldiers of the National Guard will land in the city in the next week, said the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
While official statistics show a decrease in violent crime in Washington, the American president said he invoked a measure that authorizes him to take control of the city of this city in the United States.
Trump spoke on Monday that these statistics had been distorted as a result of political pressures.
It has become a situation of complete and total anarchy, and we will get rid of slums
said Donald Trump at a press conference at the White House, after having summoned the Washington homeless to leave loin
of the city, in a publication the day before on its Truth Social platform.
The Republican President also promised that his initiative would not stop in Washington, where he decreed a state of emergency.
US President Donald Trump signed a decree on July 24, facilitating the task of cities and states to withdraw homeless from the streets and transfer them to treatment centers.
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It will go further. We start very strongly to [Washington] And we’re going to clean this quickly
he said.
Donald Trump also said they deployed the National Guard, a body of reserve soldiers, in order to restore law, order, and public security
.
He had already mobilized in June the National Guard in California, against the advice of the Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, saying that he wanted to restore order in Los Angeles after demonstrations against arrests of immigrants by the Federal Immigration Police (ICE).
Unlike the 50 American states, the city of Washington operates within the framework of a particular relationship with the federal state which limits its autonomy.
