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From USA TODAY.

President Donald Trump said he will deploy National Guard troops to Washington D.C., as part of an aggressive federal effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.

Trump said the federal government would also seize control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department.

"We’re taking our capital back," Trump said August 11. "We’re taking it back."