As Reuters reports, the details of the plan to place the soldiers are not clear, as is the role they would play. The information appeared after Trump announced a special press conference on Monday on the subject of “Renewal” and embellishing the capital, including radical dealing with crime and homelessness in the city.
The US president announced that The homeless are to move out of the capital immediately And that they will receive a place far from the city. “There will be no” nice gentleman “. We want to renew our capital. Thank you for the attention devoted to this matter!” – he wrote on Truth Social.
Trump had already threatened to take over federal control over the city, If the local authorities do not change the law to allow the judgment of 14-year-olds as adults. It happened after a 20-year-old former member of the Government Efficiency Team (Doge) Edward Coristine was beaten.
Another such decision of Donald Trump
Trump once in the second term activated the national guardto help pacify the riots in Los Angeles. In the first term, the army was used for restoring order after the riots on the capitol. Trump also sent soldiers to the capital during the protests after the death of the African American policeman George Floyd, but they did not actively participate in guarding order.
As reported by “Washington Post”, the Trump administration on the weekend She sent 120 officers to work in the capital Federal Investigation Bureau to help the local police in the fight against crime, including car burglary scourge.
Although the American capital survived in 2023 a significant increase in crime, police statistics suggest that over 35 percent have occurred over the past year. a decrease in crime using violence and its present The level is the lowest in 30 years.
