LIVE: National Guard Arrive in Washington DC after Trump Order

Details

Description

President Trump has announced the deployment of 800 National Guard troops to Washington to rescue the city from “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor”.

READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-demands-homeless-people-be-kicked-out-of-washington-r27fpxmgf

In a White House press conference on Monday, the president unveiled his plans to seize control of the capital’s police force and send soldiers to patrol the streets. He said the murder rate in Washington was worse than Bogotá and Baghdad.

“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” he said. “This is liberation day in DC and we’re going to take our capital back.”

Last year the number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults in Washington fell to its lowest level in three decades. Violent crime spiked in 2023 but has dropped dramatically ever since and is down 26 per cent this year.

However, Trump said the statistics were “phony” and he denounced the city’s Democratic mayor, Muriel Bowser, after a 19-year-old Republican staffer was badly beaten up by teenagers.

Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/
Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/
Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimes
Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

#livestream #washingtondc #trump #nationalguard