President Donald Trump has officially declared a crime emergency in Washington, DC.
Something is out of control, but we are going to put it in control very quickly, like we did on the southern border.I’m announcing an action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor—and worse. This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we are going to take our capital back. We are taking it back.Under the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, I’m invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act—you know what that is—placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you will be meeting the people who will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they are tough, and they know what’s happening. They’ve done it before.In addition, I’m deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, D.C., and they are going to be allowed to do their jobs properly.Think of the people who are victims of it. You reporters—I understand a lot of you tend to be liberal—but you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed. You all know people who that happens to, so you can say anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets. You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe, and go into a store to buy a newspaper or to buy something. And you don’t have that now.In Washington today, the murder rate is higher than that of Colombia, Mexico City, several other places that you hear about. It’s one of the worst places on earth—this is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years, and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in ’23 reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don’t know what that means because it just goes back 25 years—could be worse.Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to let it happen anymore. We are not going to take it.
Trump put Attorney General Pam Bondi in command of the Metropolitan Police Department. Terry Cole, the head of the DEA, will become the interim DC police commissioner.
Trump pointed out that many leaders come to DC. As America regains its prominence in the world, the capital needs to look fantastic and be safe:
It’s a very, very strong reflection of our country, and when they see a bad city, you know, my father always used to tell me, I had a wonderful father, very smart. And he used to say, “Son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door. Don’t go in, because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also.” Same thing with the Capitol. If our capitol is dirty, our whole country is dirty.
Trump isn’t wrong. I wish I could find a video I saw months ago. It showed Trump walking at Mar-a-Lago with a lawn person discussing the grass growing between the stones.
There is a reason why Trump is successful. He pays attention to every detail, no matter how small. He knows cleanliness is one of the many things people look at before they even entertain the thought of setting foot in an establishment.
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U.S. Attorney General for DC Jeanine Pirro explained how DC leadership protects criminals:
Here’s the problem. Assuming that they’re 17 years, older than 17 years old, I can’t get the case if they’re under 18 years of age. I can only get the case if it’s murder, rob[bery] one, rape, even if they shoot a gun, but don’t kill you, I can’t get it.So the law has to be changed, as the President said, cashless bail, that has to be changed. All right, then even assuming I get the case, I get jurisdiction, I get a conviction, the DC Council has given the judges the ability to give probation on shootings. And so then it’s up to them all of these things, the Youth Rehabilitation, Incarceration Reduction Act, and now they want to seal records.So if we work hard, we get a conviction, they want to wipe it out. So that needs all to be changed.
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President Donald Trump will hold a press conference today at 10 AM ET to announce plans to clean up Washington, D.C.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR. I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
In a previous Truth Social post:
The Press Conference on Crime and “Beautification” will be held tomorrow, at 10:00 A.M. EST, in the Press Briefing Room, and it will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital. We are not going to allow people to spend $3.1 Billion Dollars on fixing up a building, like the Federal Reserve, which could have been done in a far more elegant and time sensitive manner for $50 to $100 Million Dollars. The Renovation would have actually been better, and we would have saved $3 Billion Dollars, Traffic Jams, and never-ending Construction. The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive. The American Public is not going to put up with it any longer. Just like I took care of the Border, where you had ZERO Illegals coming across last month, from millions the year before, I will take care of our cherished Capital, and we will make it, truly, GREAT AGAIN! Before the tents, squalor, filth, and Crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the World. It will soon be that again. Thank you for your attention to this matter — See you tomorrow at 10 A.M.!
Trump’s reaction came about after 10 teenagers beat up DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, 19, when he tried to help an elderly woman thwart a carjacking.
The New York Times reported that Trump wants to assign 120 FBI agents to patrol DC at night.
I see the right claiming crime is up in D.C. The left claims stats show a decrease in crime.
Me? Well, coming from Chicago, I know authorities like to fudge the numbers.
I watched Naming the Dead this weekend where the DOE Project uses DNA and genealogy to identify victims.
One victim lost his life in 1996 when Atlanta, GA, hosted the Olympics. The people involved with the episode discovered that law enforcement encourage people not to report many crimes to keep the crime rate numbers done. Gotta look good, after all!
I rarely trust crime numbers, especially in Democrat-run cities. Even when Chicago’s crime rate numbers look horrible I still don’t trust them. I assume the actual crime rate number is much higher.
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