Donald Trump deployed federal soldiers and agents to Washington and visited the deployment headquarters to greet National Guard soldiers and police. He said he would make the city safe and remain there for a while. The measure can be maintained for 30 days under current legislation, and Trump indicated he might extend it. He described the city as a place of crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor. Initially about 800 troops were to reinforce local forces; six Republican-majority states later sent additional troops. The mission has expanded to focus increasingly on detention of illegal immigrants and was partially limited in court, relying on the capital's unique status under the DC Home Rule Act.
Donald Trump has taken to boasting about his decision to deploy federal soldiers and agents on the streets of Washington, despite the unease the measure has generated among residents. The Republican, who adopted the measure 10 days ago citing an alleged escalation of violence, went to the headquarters of the deployment to greet soldiers and police officers. We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while, the president said.
Trump had declared hours earlier that he would go on patrol with the police and the military that evening, in comments on conservative commentator Todd Starnes' radio show. The president's afternoon outing amounted to a triumphant stroll, one of the many the Republican administration has taken since ordering the deployment of the National Guard and federal agents to the U.S. capital in response to what it considers a rise in crime that had become a national emergency.
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