'Not entirely far-fetched': D.C. residents face prospect of Trump taking over local police

Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office, combined with his purported plans to gut the government, has the potential to disrupt the lives of D.C. residents who already live under a system that limits their rights of self-determination, according to a new report.

According to a report from Politico's Michael Schaffer, locals have long lived under a system where Congress and the president have the ability to overrule local government unlike other cities, and with a vengeful Trump returning, local citizens are looking at major disruptions to their way of life.

Among those changes is the prospect of an authoritarian-minded Trump using the local police to get his way as he tests the limits of his re-acquired power.

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According to the report, it is "not entirely farfetched" that Trump, a convicted felon in New York, will use his appointed U.S. attorney, who serves as local district attorney, to go after his enemies in D.C. of which there are many.

"Federal law also gives the president the right to temporarily take over the local police — something previous chief executives never played with," the report notes.

Schaffer adds, "...the people who work the gears of politics — the Hill staffer who needs an abortion; the political reporter with a child in D.C. public schools; the lobbyist hoping to sell her house at a profit — may soon find themselves buffeted by election results in ways that feel entirely new."

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