FEDERALIZE IT! Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of Washington D.C. as Crime Gets Out of Control

President Trump on Tuesday again threatened to bring Washington, D.C. under federal control, decrying what he called “out of control” crime in the nation’s capital. In a characteristically forceful post on TRUTH Social, Trump wrote: “Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16 years old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, all while knowing they’ll be almost immediately released.” Trump urged city leaders to start charging violent juveniles as adults at age 14 and to “lock them up for a long time.” Alongside the post, he shared a jarring image: a bloodied young man


