Trump to speak at White House on violent crime in D.C. amid federal crackdown

President Donald Trump said Saturday that helium volition clasp a property availability astatine the White House adjacent week to code convulsive transgression successful Washington, D.C., days aft the White House announced it was expanding national instrumentality enforcement crossed the city.

"On Monday a Press Conference volition beryllium held astatine the White House which will, essentially, halt convulsive transgression successful Washington, D.C," helium wrote connected societal media.

Trump, who has often criticized the Democratic-led city, claimed that D.C. volition "soon beryllium 1 of the safest cities," adjacent arsenic data shows that convulsive transgression successful the nation's superior has been decreasing.

Trump this week ramped up his rhetoric astir transgression successful the district, aft a erstwhile subordinate of the Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted successful an attempted carjacking.

"He went done a atrocious situation, to enactment it mildly, and there's excessively overmuch of it. We're going to bash thing astir it," Trump said Wednesday.

Trump besides threatened to federalize Washington, D.C., if section officials don't "get [their] enactment together, and quickly."

On Thursday, the White House said it was launching a seven-day effort to ace down connected transgression successful the city.

"Washington, D.C. is an astonishing city, but it has been plagued by convulsive transgression for acold excessively long," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a statement, according to NBC Washington.

"President Trump has directed an accrued beingness of national instrumentality enforcement to support guiltless citizens. Starting tonight, determination volition beryllium nary harmless harbor for convulsive criminals successful D.C."

Local officials condemned Trump's bid and warned that helium is encroaching connected "home rule," the decades-old enactment that allows D.C. residents to elite their ain politician and assembly members.

"Even if transgression successful D.C. weren't astatine a historical debased point, President Trump's comments would beryllium misguided and violative to the much than 700,000 radical who unrecorded permanently successful the nation's capital," Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s nonvoting delegate, said successful a statement.

"Although I won't let them to succeed, the Republicans pushing to repeal the Home Rule Act person nary program to tally the District should they abolish the mayor's bureau and D.C. Council," she said.