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After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.
The Democratic mayor reversed her tone towards Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard to combat crime in her city.
As National Guard troops deploy across her city as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to clamp down on crime, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is responding with relative restraint.She's called Trump's takeover of the city's police department and his decision to activate 800 members of the guard “ unsettling and unprecedented ” and gone as far as to cast his efforts as part of an “authoritarian push.
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EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Bowser, Chief Smith to discuss Trump’s DC takeover on FOX 5
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Pamela Smith joined FOX 5 Good Day DC live on Wednesday for an exclusive sit-down interview to discuss how the city plans to work with the Trump administration following the president’s decision to take control of the city’s police department and deploy 800 National Guard troops to help crack down on crime.
While Bowser labeled Trump’s Washington D.C. takeover as an "authoritarian push," her tone has been described as more measured than others.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the city had reached a 30-year low in violent crime. Bowser said that crime was down not just from a post-pandemic peak in 2023, but from 2019 levels prior to the pandemic.
Democratic Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has left the district for Martha’s Vineyard as President Donald Trump deploys the National
"Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false," said Mayor Bowser amid Trump's escalation in rhetoric against the city.
"This doesn't make sense. The numbers on the ground in the district don’t support 1,000 people from other states coming to Washington, D.C.," Mayor Muriel Bowser said.
Republican-led states are sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump's crackdown on crime, despite downward trends in the capital's crime rate. NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter Gary Grumbach has more details.
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