Trump Says He Will Patrol Washington, D.C., With Police and Military

President Donald Trump said he will patrol D.C. streets on Thursday night alongside the Metropolitan Police Department and National Guard troops, as his Administration continues its effort to crack down on crime and exert control over the nation’s capital. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course. So we’re going to do a job,” Trump said in an interview with conservative talk show host Todd Starnes. “The National Guard is great. They’ve done a fantastic job.” Details of the evening were still being worked out, and it wasn’t immediately clear how the Secret Service would manage the President riding around with law enforcement. The move comes more than a week after Trump took control of the city’s police department and deployed hundreds of National Guard troops across the city to crack down on what he referred to as unacceptable levels of crime, despite statistics showing violent crime has declined in the city. This is a breaking news story and will be updated.