“I’m not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime,” he said at an hourslong Cabinet meeting at the White House, where he held forth at great length and many of his Cabinet secretaries celebrated him...

President Donald Trump, at his Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, touted his record on crime amid his federal takeover of Washington and threats to do the same in other major American cities.

A Pew Research Center poll early this year showed 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents agreed that many of the country’s problems could be better solved “if Donald Trump didn’t have...