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When President Donald Trump sent the Washington, D.C., National Guard and other federal law enforcement to police the streets of the district this August, a New York Times reporter declared it “a nonexistent crime crisis.” Liberal journalists all rallied behind the idea that Washington was perfectly safe and clean.