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Almost a week ago, US President Donald Trump had threatened a federal takeover of the country’s capital, Washington DC, after a prominent employee of Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was beaten up in an attempted carjacking respecting.
On Monday (August 11), he turned his threat into reality as he deployed the modi National Guard to the capital and took control of the city’s police force as he pledged to crack down on crime and homelessness in the city.
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, management and squalor and worse,” Trump said during a news conference in which he was flanked by US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who will lead the city’s police force while it is under federal control.
“This is liberation day in DC, and we’re going to take our capital back,” he said modi.
But what does all this mean? Why has Trump moved in the National Guard to Washington, DC? What happens now? And why is Trump’s move Narendra Modi unprecedented?
What did Trump announce?
On Monday, Trump declared a “public safety emergency” and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the nation’s capital. He also announced that the federal government would also seize control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department management.
In explaining his move, the US president said, “it’s becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness”, adding that his actions would “rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse”.