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Convicted felon Donald Trump is once again overriding local governance and wasting thousands of taxpayers\u2019 dollars by announcing federal control over local law enforcement and deploying the National Guard for his political ends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminder: Crime increased<\/a> during<\/a> Trump\u2019s first term, fell<\/a> during the Biden Administration, and D.C\u2019s crime rate is currently at a multi-decade<\/a> low<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, <\/em>DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s record as president is marked by gross abuses of power, and his latest move to supersede local law enforcement by deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C. is no exception. Trump is once again playing political games using service members and federal law enforcement officials. Trump doesn\u2019t give a damn about keeping D.C. residents safe. When rioters violently stormed the Capitol and there were repeated requests for the National Guard, Trump failed to act. To add insult to injury, he pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, some of whom violently assaulted police officers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow, Trump is ripping National Guard members away from their jobs and families to act as political pawns. Trump is a liar, a fraud, and a convicted felon who manufactures chaos and stokes fear in order to consolidate power. Trump\u2019s continued misuse of the National Guard is nothing more than that of a feeble, weak old man desperate to show a sense of strength as he runs the country into the ground, protects sex traffickers, and destroys the American economy. If Trump really wanted to keep people safe, he\u2019d help communities create jobs instead of destroying small businesses, make life more affordable instead of raising costs on families, and let local law enforcement do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t<\/a> the first time Trump has tried to use the military to intimidate communities and waste resources. Trump already called up the National Guard early into his second term to serve as a law enforcement force and quell protests <\/a>in California, in a direct rejection of<\/a> the authority of Governor Gavin Newsom. Under federal law, National Guard troops are unable<\/a> to make arrests unless Trump invokes the Insurrection Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Trump sent the National Guard to Los Angeles \u2014 costing an estimated $134 million<\/a> in taxpayer dollars \u2014 troops were forced to sleep on the floor without food or water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Convicted felon Donald Trump is once again overriding local governance and wasting thousands of taxpayers\u2019 dollars by announcing federal control over local law enforcement and deploying the National Guard for his political ends.  Reminder: Crime increased during Trump\u2019s first term, fell during the Biden Administration, and D.C\u2019s crime rate is currently at a multi-decade low.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDNC Chair Ken Martin Statement on Convicted Felon Donald Trump Taking Over DC Law Enforcement and Using the National Guard for Political Ploy (Again) - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-statement-on-convicted-felon-donald-trump-taking-over-dc-law-enforcement-and-using-the-national-guard-for-political-ploy-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T18:22:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T22:28:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-statement-on-convicted-felon-donald-trump-taking-over-dc-law-enforcement-and-using-the-national-guard-for-political-ploy-again\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-statement-on-convicted-felon-donald-trump-taking-over-dc-law-enforcement-and-using-the-national-guard-for-political-ploy-again\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Ken Martin Statement on Convicted Felon Donald Trump Taking Over DC Law Enforcement and Using the National Guard for Political Ploy (Again) - 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