Trump deploys the US National Guard to DC in the midst of crime emergency complaints | Donald Trump News

Mayor Muriel Bowser challenges Donald Trump’s emergency story, citing the decrease in crime; Critics call deployment a game of political power.

Part of the 800 members of the National Guard The deployment by American president Donald Trump began to arrive in the national capital, accelerating after the White House ordered the federal forces to take over the city’s police service and reduce crime in what the president called – without justification – a city without law.

The influx of Tuesday morning after Trump announced that he would activate the members of the guard and take control of the department. He quoted an emergency of crime – but referred to the same crime that the stress of city officials already falls significantly.

The president holds legal right to make such movements – up to a point.

The law allows Trump to control the police service for a month, but how aggressive the federal presence will be and how it could take place remained open questions as mayor and police chief of the city going to the Ministry of Justice to meet the Attorney General.

The meeting occurs a day after the mayor Muriel Bowser said that Trump’s freshly announced plan to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and that the call in the National Guard was not a productive stage. She calmly asserted the case of the city that the crime has dropped regularly and said that Trump’s perceived emergency perceived simply does not correspond to the figures.

She also categorically declared that the hands of the capital are linked and that her administration has no choice but to comply. “We could contest this,” she said about Trump’s definition of an emergency of crime, “but his authority is quite wide.”

Bowser referred to Trump’s “so-called emergency” and concluded: “I will work every day to make sure it is not a complete disaster.”

Kimberly Halkett of Al Jazeera, reporting from Washington, DC, said that Trump accused the Democrats of being “weak on crime”.

“He distinguished cities led by Democrats like Oakland – who is outside of San Francisco – New York, Baltimore, even Chicago,” she said. “Since they are led by Democrats … This causes a little concern.”

Democrats call for “takeover” move.

“Even if they say that it is technically legal, it is a hostile takeover since these powers have never been executed in modern history,” said Halkett.

Trump’s jack -up relationship with DC

While Trump invokes his plan by saying that “we are going to resume our capital”, Bowser and the MPD maintain that the crime violent overall in Washington decreased to a hollow of 30 years after a sharp increase in 2023.

Carjackings, for example, fell by around 50% in 2024 and are down again this year. However, more than half of those arrested are minors, and the extent of these sanctions is a point of contention for the Trump administration.

“The White House says that the crime can be down, but that does not mean that it is not a problem and that violent crimes exist at levels that are far too high,” said Halkett.

Bowser, a Democrat, spent a large part of Trump’s first mandate openly with the Republican President. She rejected her initial plans for a military parade in the streets and was held in public opposition when he called a multi-agency flow of federal police to face demonstrators against anti-political brutality in the summer of 2020.

Later, she paint the words “Black Lives Matter” in giant yellow letters in the street about a pâté de la Maison Blanche.

In the second term of Trump, supported by republican control of the two Congress Chambers, Bowser has traveled a tightrope for months, emphasizing the common ground with the Trump administration on questions such as successful efforts to bring back the Washington commanders of the National Football League (NFL) in the Columbia district.

She looked with an open concern for city streets while Trump finally obtained her military parade this summer. His decision to dismantle Black Lives Match Plaza earlier this year served as a net metaphor how much the dynamics of power between the two executives had evolved.

Now that the difficult relationship is in unexplored territory when Trump has followed for months that many DC officials had silent were empty threats. The new impasse threw Bowser in a nice light, even among his longtime criticisms.

“It’s a power game and we are an easy target,” said Clinique Chapman, CEO of DC Justice Lab. Frequent critic of Bowser, whom she accuses of “on the police of our youth” with the recent expansions of the Washington curfew, Chapman said that Trump’s last decision “does not consist in creating a safer DC; it is about the power”.