Trump threatens full 'Federal takeover' in DC, accuses mayor of peddling 'inaccurate crime figures'

President Donald Trump threatened a full Federal takeover of the nation's capital accusing Washington D C Mayor Muriel Bowser of disseminating inaccurate crime figures In an early Friday morning post on Truth Social the president declared Washington D C is SAFE AGAIN The crowds are coming back the spirit is high and our D C National Guard and Police are doing a fantastic job They are out in force and are NOT PLAYING GAMES As bad as it sounds to say there were no murders this week for the first time in memory Mayor Muriel Bowser must right away stop giving false and highly inaccurate crime figures or bad things will happen including a complete and total Federal takeover of the City Washington D C will soon be great again he added DOJ RESEARCHING MANAGEABLE DC CRIME DETAILS MANIPULATION AMID TRUMP'S CRACKDOWN ON VIOLENCEFox News Digital reached out to the mayor's office early on Friday morning to request a comment from Bowser Trump has mounted a bid to crack down on crime in D C Last week he issued an order directing the mayor provide the services of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes and issued a memorandum directing the Defense Secretary to mobilize the District of Columbia National Guard and order members to proceeding arrangement to tackle the city's crime predicament TRUMP JOINS POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES IN WASHINGTON STREETSPresident Trump previously threatened a federal takeover in D C in a Truth Social post earlier this month If D C doesn t get its act together and speedily we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City and run this City how it should be run and put criminals on notice that they re not going to get away with it anymore he declared in part of an Aug post Back in August of when President Joe Biden was still in office Trump promoted the idea noting in a post that he was CALLING FOR A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF THIS FILTHY AND CRIME RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR NATION WHERE MURDERS HAVE JUST SHATTERED THE ALL TIME RECORD OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE NEVER NEEN sic WORSE AND TOURISTS HAVE FLED SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SCREAMS DURING VIRAL DC ARREST WHAT I VOTED FOR Violent crime in DC is at its lowest level in years Mayor Muriel Bowser asserted in social media posts last week We had an unacceptable spike in so we changed our laws and strategies Now crime levels are not only down from but from before the pandemic Our tactics are working and we aren t taking our foot off the gas