President Donald Trump, when explaining why he made a move to deploy the National Guard to handle crime in Washington, D.C., used a simple lesson he learned from his dad: Would you go into a restaurant that looks like a rat-hole on the outside?
Trump announced Monday that the federal government was taking control over D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department and deploying the National Guard to help reduce crime.
The move came after an administration official was bloodied and beaten during an attempted carjacking earlier in the month; according to The Hill, Trump said he was looking to “rescue” the nation’s capital from “bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor” and noted that D.C.’s murder rate was higher than other cities — including Bogotá, Colombia, not exactly known as
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