In a shocking about-face, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser credits President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the city’s police department earlier this month with lowering crime in the nation’s capital.

After Trump announced the Aug. 7 surge of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement personnel into the city, Bowser called the move “unsettling and unprecedented.”

But in the next more conciliatory breath she also said it might help the city. “The fact that we have more law enforcement and presence in neighborhoods, that may be positive.”

Fast-forward to a press conference on Wednesday this week, when she gave Trump’s takeover full credit for reducing crime in Washington while also saying the use of federal troops and other law enforcement is “not working,” according to NBC

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