Posted on 08/08/2025 7:06:01 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
President Donald Trump has ordered federal law enforcement to patrol Washington, D.C., for seven days starting at midnight on Friday, the White House announced. The move comes in response to a surge in violent crime in the overwhelmingly Democrat-run nation's capital.
The deployment includes agencies like the U.S. Park Police, FBI, DEA, ATF, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Washington, DC is an amazing city, but it has been plagued by violent crime for far too long. President Trump has directed an increased presence of federal law enforcement to protect innocent citizens," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
"Starting tonight, there will be no safe harbor for violent criminals in D.C."
Leavitt went on to say the President "is committed to making our Nation’s capital safer for its residents, lawmakers, and visitors from all around the world.”
This move follows Trump's threat to federalize the city’s police force, prompted by a violent attack on a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer.
That staffer, Edward Coristine, aka "Big Balls," was attacked in Washington, D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood in the early morning hours on Sunday while defending a woman from an attempted carjacking.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
President Trump is a man of action, not one to hesitate taking action where it is important. This is.
Prior to the 2024 election and after he has stated that our nation's capital is an eyesore. And he intends to restore safety and beauty of our capital.
This 7 days thing sounds like an interim measure. More to come I would guess.
Crime will drop precipitously for the seven days.
Trump will say, “We can do this. I have demonstrated it to be so.”
He will be right, but it takes political will to do so.
“President Trump is livid over the scourge of crime in the capital, threatened to “federalize” DC”
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Posturing. Zero chance of him doing that. It would be a political nightmare.
At this point, I am unsure if I agree. He has accomplished a lot in a short time.
Agree, it probably should have been written 7 days per week. Noting it will be an unknown length of time.
DC is a horror story. Not only “just common criminals”, they have hit men (and women) and Deep State assassins.
My daughter just left the area (in N. VA). I am relieved that she did.
If there are any veterans still serving who were involved with Mogadishu, then their insights might be impactful in trying to take back the streets of this American third world city.
Amazingly filthy, amazingly corrupt, amazingly drug-addicted, amazingly murderous ...
DC where the civilians are largely unarmed by law, but criminals all have weapons.
Correct. Lots of house keeping to bring in force. And lots of criminal to be put away.
He was describing Congress.
Trump orders increased federal law enforcement presence in Washington
Participating law enforcement include personnel from the U.S. Capitol Police, Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Enforcement and Removal Operations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
https://www.wfsb.com/2025/08/08/trump-orders-increased-federal-law-enforcement-presence-washington/
He's really going to clean up this town.
Thanks for article.
I said he was not a man to mess around dealing with threats.
He will stop this insanity.
Likely True That.
There is an elephant in the room. Congress allowed home-rule for DC in the 60s during the height of the Civil Rights movement because by then Washington had become, how to put it, ‘a chocolate city’. The implication that chocolate people cannot govern themselves effectively is anathema.
Any Federal control of the District, will be met with cries of ‘racism’. And although the word has lost much of its punch, it is still a rallying cry for the left.
Martial
Media praise black culture and demonize accountability and decency as racist.
You reap what you sow.
Yes, caution of that has merit.
If you were to go, you could not carry.
Cleaning out DC will be about as tough as clearing out the Gaza Strip. (/sarcasm, but not by much)
The insane are truly running the assylum: police, courts and municipal officials. (President Trump has already begun dealing with that.)
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