From breitbart.com
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is taking major steps to address rampant crime in Washington, DC, “officially invoking section 740 of the district of Columbia Home Rule Act” and “placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,” in addition to activating the National Guard.
Trump made the major declaration during a highly-anticipated press conference on D.C. crime Monday morning, declaring it “Liberation Day” in the nation’s capital.
“This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m officially invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act — you know what that is — and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you’ll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that,” Trump revealed right off the bat.
“Very good people, but they’re tough, and they know what’s happening. They’ve done it before,” Trump said, also announcing that he is deploying the National Guard to “help reestablish law order of public safety in Washington, DC,” assuring that they will be allowed to do their job “properly.”
Trump told reporters packed in the tight White House briefing room that this is not a partisan issue, noting that they have been victims of the crime as well.
“I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed,” he said.
“You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now,” he said, noting the murder rate in Washington today is “higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City; some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth.”
“The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means, because it just goes back 25 years,” Trump continued, offering some perspective.
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore,” Trump declared.
“We’re not going to take it, just like we did on our southern border,” he added.
WATCH the presser below:
I want to believe this is a good move but i am more than skeptical. Is this the first move to institute martial law to the entire country?? One has to wonder….. Everything is sold to us as “good” initially and while I do NOT under any circumstances approve of crime on our streets, neither do I approve of or support martial law!!
The only thing habitual thugs understand is whose gun is bigger and/or do we outnumber them? Go for it Trump! (My blue comment button worked too!)
Awesome 🙂
I wish you were here and I would leave a big smackaroo on your cheek. You know exactly what to say and how to fix terrible things and make everything right again. If you had been on the Titanic I swear you would have righted that ship!
Sis, I want to make sure that you know that I didn’t write this article. I placed the source of the piece in the beginning so that the reader can click on the link and it will take them right to the article. I used to write all of the articles on Absolute Truth years ago – mainly on various subjects like Apostasy in the church.I post articles like this one because I believe that it’s important for the brethren to see.
The sad part is that we’re at that point in history where it doesn’t matter anymore what we do or don’t do. Evil has to be dealt with and if he doesn’t do anything then what? We all know where this going. The people will be begging for Martial Law just like they’ll beg for the mark. This country has deteriorated so fast lately that it isn’t safe at all anywhere. Jesus is going to be here soon. Can’t you feel it?🙏
Yes indeed! He said when we see these things coming about to look up because He is near, and also that these things are the signs that He is right at the door. That is very exciting and reassuring in these vile times — at least there is that about them that is not vile, that they prove to us that our Saviour is almost ready to take us to be with Him, and that not too long after that, we will reign with Him for 1,000 years and then have our part in the new heaven and earth with which God will replace this old, sin-worn one — a new one which will never know anything but righteousness. It is worth the trouble we have to endure now, just as the Word tells us 🙂
Amen