Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said the administration’s efforts are an extension of Trump’s brand, which she described as “using race overtly to drive division, to consolidate a base and to use that to usurp power a president does not have, or should not be deemed to have.”
Donald Trump's push for law and order shows he's no longer encumbered by government guardrails
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She added that the playbook has special potency in the capital because the district’s local law enforcement can be directly placed under federal control, a power Trump invoked in his announcement.
Donald Trump's rhetoric about D.C. echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
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