“I believe that this is a manufactured emergency to distract Americans from other pressing national issues of concern. But the only way for the president to justify having all of these troops deployed on American streets is for there to be some sort of incident. And so, I do believe that this is an effort to provoke the residents of the district into some violent act.”

– Washington, DC councilwoman Christina Henderson, on President Trump’s federalizing law enforcement in her city. In less than a week, crime rates in the nation’s capital were cut in half.