The president offered misleading statements about crime trends in the nation’s capital.
Arthur Delaney
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-dc ... 3f5edc4affWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared a “crime emergency” here on Monday, took temporary control of the D.C. police department and said he’d deploy the National Guard.
It’s the first time a president has invoked the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 to take over the city’s police, but it’s become routine for Trump to declare dubious emergencies expanding his power.
In January, Trump declared an emergency on the southern border stemming from an alleged immigrant “invasion” as justification for deploying federal troops there despite border crossings having already declined from their highs during Joe Biden’s administration.
In March, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, claiming a Venezuelan gang was “conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States,” so that the administration could detain and deport immigrants without due process. The administration ignored its own expert guidance that no gang was operating in the U.S. at the direction of the Venezuelan government.
