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Trump says he wants to 'take over' DC and 'clean it up' during campaign rally
Trump says he wants to ‘take over’ DC and ‘clean it up’
While speaking at a campaign event in Atlanta, former President Donald Trump said he wants to “take over” D.C. and “clean it up.” Trump said the city has been “horribly run” and commented on the protests and dangers the District has face recently.
WASHINGTON – Speaking from a campaign rally in Atlanta Saturday, former President Donald Trump said he wants to “take over” D.C. and “clean it up.”
“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C. and clean it up, renovate it, rebuild our capital city, so there’s no longer a nightmare of murder and crime,” Trump said.
It’s been a particularly violent weekend in D.C. Four people were shot and two of them were pronounced dead in Northeast D.C. Three people were also stabbed in two early-morning attacks in the same area.
“We’re going to stop the murder and crime. You go down from your state, you end up getting mugged and murdered in our capital. It’ll be run tough and strong by our great police officers,” Trump said. “We will become the most beautiful capital, anywhere in the world.”
The comments come as the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is heating up. Harris has secured enough votes from delegates to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president and she’s expected to announce a running mate in the coming week.
Her formal nomination is expected to be finalized by Aug. 7, though the party’s convention in Chicago isn’t scheduled to begin until Aug. 19.
February 27, 2026, was a flash point in the cold war between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.
The AI giant Anthropic had drawn a red line with the Pentagon, forbidding the military from using its product for autonomous weapons or the mass surveillance of Americans. The Pentagon retaliated by ending their contract and designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Anthropic has since sued to overturn this designation.
The feud-turned-legal battle is an acute example of a long-festering dynamic: technologists who want control over the use of their creations and who do not trust the government to understand or regulate their products, and policymakers wary of an unelected tech oligarchy that has become its own power center in American society.
Trae Stephens is no stranger to this dynamic.
(Photo courtesy of North Dakota National Guard. via the North Dakota Monitor)
(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota will send 60 National Guard members to Washington, D.C., starting in April, for an estimated three months to help police the city.
The move is in support of President Donald Trump’s August executive order declaring an emergency in D.C. The president said assistance from states is necessary to address what he described as rampant crime in the nation’s capital.
“Safeguarding the citizens, federal workers and elected leaders in our nation’s capital is a matter of national security, and we appreciate these Soldiers volunteering for this important mission,” Gov. Kelly Armstrong said.
Most of the 60 North Dakota members will come from the 131st Military Police Battalion, based in Bismarck, according to the announcement.
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