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Washington DC mayor, Muriel Bowser, has pushed back on Donald Trump’s move to take control of the local police force and deploy the national guard. ‘While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented,’ Bowser said. ‘I can’t say that, given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised.’ Trump said he was deploying 800 national guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the US capital
