Trump, Washington and File Metropolitan Police
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Following earlier orders from President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directing Drug Enforcement Administrator Terry Cole to assume control of MPD, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the Trump administration.
Democratic lawmakers are pushing a joint resolution to put the kibosh on President Trump's use of the D.C. Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order Thursday that amounted to a reversal of "sanctuary" policies in D.C. The District sued over the order Friday.
President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and car thefts.
Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2013 News Conference.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive late on Thursday naming Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department.
A former MPD sergeant claims that top officials sought to ‘downgrade crimes in order to make crime look like it was less than it was.’
Trump’s Wednesday announcement had the feel of both an awards reveal and a political rally. Seated in the front row to Trump’s left were South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, whom Trump congratulated on his poll numbers in his reelection campaign, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.