Trump Assembles Top Cabinet Officials To Put The Swamp On Notice: Crime Stops Today
Nicole Silverio | Daily Caller News Foundation | August 11, 2025
President Donald Trump gathered his top cabinet officials on Monday to declare that they are collectively cracking down on violent criminals who are running rampant throughout Washington, D.C.
Violent criminals have murdered and viciously attacked victims in D.C. in the course of just a few years, prompting the Trump administration to take swift federal action to hold violent criminals to account. Among many major developments, Trump signed an executive order to deploy the National Guard and declared a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to put violent criminals behind bars.
“This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re gonna take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I’m officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control … In addition, I’m deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they’re gonna be allowed to do their job properly,” Trump announced. (RELATED: Trump Calls For DC Homeless To Be Moved ‘FAR From The Capital’)