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Donald Trump was preparing to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops to flood the streets of Washington DC as federal agents began making arrests on Sunday night.
Trump was expected to announce the deployment during a White House press conference Monday as he continues to push for a federal takeover of the city amid a crackdown on crime.
‘Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK,’ Trump warned on Truth Social.
Photos taken late Sunday night showed several federal authorities working in coordination with one another including the FBI and Border Patrol.
In one instance, a man was detained by police along U Street in the capital as FBI and Border Patrol agents assisted.
A short distance away Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents could also be seen standing guard in Dupont Circle.
It came as Trump deployed 120 FBI agents to work alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital working the night shift
The National Guard mobilization was expected on Monday, as US officials told NBC4 Washington that Trump was considering deploying 1,000 troops.
The White House declined to confirm details but signaled Trump is prepared to act.
FBI and Border Patrol officers were seen arresting a man along the U Street corridor late on Sunday night in Washington D.C.
The man, dressed in a pink shirt and grey shorts, was placed in cuffs while at least nine agents from various agencies could be seen standing around
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents stand guard in Dupont Circle as part of a federal law enforcement deployment to the nation’s capital on Sunday night in Washington, DC.
‘We won’t get ahead of the President on any potential announcements,’ one official told NBC News, ‘but the President has been clear that all options are on the table when it comes to making D.C. safe again.’
Trump has been suggesting the federal crackdown for days, using his Truth Social platform to promise a major announcement on Monday about his anti-crime plan.
‘It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World,’ Trump wrote on Sunday. ‘It will soon be one of the safest!!!’
The president has likened his plans for D.C. as similar to his administration’s aggressive crackdown against illegal immigration at the southern border.
‘I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,’ he said while pledging to ‘immediately clear out the city’s homeless population and take swift action against crime.’
‘It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border,’ Trump posted.
‘We’re going to have to federalize D.C. and run it the way it’s supposed to be run,’ Trump declared on Tuesday night on Truth Social.
Speaking to reporters the following day he added, ‘The rate of crime, the rate of muggings, killings and everything else – we’re not going to let it… and that includes bringing in the National Guard, maybe very quickly, too.’
Violent crime is down 26% compared with this time in 2024, according to DC police data.
A man is seen interacting with Border Patrol and FBI agents along U Street before he was later arrested
More that a dozen agents, mainly from the FBI could be seen on Sunday night during the arrest
Trump has deployed 120 FBI agents to work alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital working the night shift
Trump has repeatedly suggested that the rule of Washington could be returned to federal authorities and on Sunday night the FBI, police and Border Patrol were all working together
President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to evict homeless people from the nation’s capital and jail criminals, despite Washington’s mayor arguing there is no current spike in crime
Trump’s Truth Social post also included pictures of tents and D.C. streets with garbage on them
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called the city’s violent crime rate the lowest in 30 years and said Trump is ‘very aware’ of the capital’s progress after a recent Oval Office meeting
If Trump signs the order, it would mark one of the largest peacetime Guard deployments in the capital in recent memory.
But during a Sunday interview, the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, insisted the capital was ‘not experiencing a crime spike.’
‘It is true that we had a terrible spike in crime in 2023, but this is not 2023,’ Bowser said on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
Bowser said she believed the president was exaggerating the need for troops to be deployed onto city streets – mainly because the District is not experiencing the crime spike Trump suggests.
She explained how she spoke to Trump a few weeks ago in the Oval Office of the White House during which time the pair discussed crime in the capital.
‘The President is very aware of our efforts,’ Bowser said. ‘He established a task force, which our police department and agencies support with information and anything else they ask us for…it is always the President’s prerogative to use federal law enforcement or the National Guard.’
Bowser suggested she had already anticipated Trump’s next move.
The deployment of 120 FBI agents working the night shift started on Sunday as they flooded the streets of the capital
FBI agents walk along the U Street corridor as part of a federal law enforcement deployment on Sunday night
FBI and Border Patrol officers are seen walking the streets in the nation’s capital on August 10
On Sunday night Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents were standing guard in Dupont Circle. President Donald Trump ordered an increased presence of federal law enforcement to Washington, DC in an effort to curb crime
Trump has already demonstrated he is not averse to deploy the National Guard should the need arise. Pictured, members of the California National Guard are seen in downtown LA in June
Last week, resident Trump posted a photo of a man who was allegedly beat up by several people in Washington, DC
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