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Media in hiding from the most urgent questions of the day
Trump has commandeered Washington, DC, putting National Guard and local police in the streets because DC is not a state, and so it’s the only place he could take over in this way. He’s brandishing a patently false pretense that the district is facing a crime crisis. The reality—and we do remember reality, right?—is that Washington, DC, has its lowest violent crime rate in 30 years.