President Donald Trump says Washington, D.C., has become too dangerous — and he’s prepared to do something about it.
On Monday, Trump announced his plan to invoke Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, declaring a public emergency that would put the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control. The move would place the city’s law enforcement directly under the Justice Department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole, bypassing the city’s leadership altogether.
The Trump administration has gotten Democrats, even "mainstream" ones, to side with criminals. It's quite beautiful. All Trump has to do is the right thing, and Democrats will oppose it!
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To hear Democrats tell it, this is less about public safety and more about authoritarianism. Rep. Eric Swalwell warned that Trump was turning America into a “dictatorship,” blaming fellow Democrats in the Senate for not making D.C. a state back in 2021. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went even further, insisting Trump had “no basis” for a takeover because “violent crime in Washington, D.C., is at a thirty-year low.”
That talking point — and it was a talking point, given how many Democrats repeated it word-for-word on social media — came from one place: the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. The same department whose leadership just suspended a commander for altering crime statistics to make the city look safer than it really is. Whether those numbers can be trusted is, at best, debatable.
Even in California, making crime illegal against was a 70-30 issue. (Prop 36.)
Democrats are taking the 30 of a 70-30 issue.
And it's closer to 80-20 nationwide.
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Still, media allies were quick to help frame the story. On MSNBC, host Eugene Daniels tried to turn the debate toward race, suggesting Republicans reserve their harshest criticism for “majority black and brown” cities. Over at CNN, Dana Bash pivoted away from crime altogether, claiming the “most violent moment” in recent D.C. history was January 6th.
Meanwhile, the political spin ignores the city’s very real crime crisis — a crisis that even many D.C. residents acknowledge. Burglaries, carjackings, and homicides have become such a part of daily life that “public safety” now ranks as one of the top issues for voters in the capital. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum backed Trump’s move, pointing out that keeping the capital city safe “is not a partisan issue” and reminding everyone that D.C. is supposed to showcase America to the world.
Thank you. Please keep pushing this line. https://t.co/HzkcNq0sX1
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 12, 2025
