President Trump Floats Federal Takeover of D.C.: ‘Crime Would Be Down’
Donald Trump,Washington DC,Federal Government
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During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump was asked how he wanted Republican voters to vote in the upcoming New York City mayoral election. Trump described Democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani, who is running for mayor of NYC, as a “communist” and stated that he “used to say” that the United States would “not ever be a socialist country.”
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