Trump is invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act that places the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.

The city’s police and federal officials took the first steps Tuesday in an uneasy partnership to reduce crime in what President Donald Trump called — without substantiation — a lawless city.

The National Guard has entered America ’s capital after Donald Trump vowed to crack down on Washington, DC, which he says has been taken over by ‘violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals’. ‘We are going to take our capital back’, Trump said in a press conference this afternoon, as federal forces entered the streets.