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After his National Guard takeover of Washington, DC, Donald Trump declared the capital as a “crime-free zone”. In a new contribution to Truth, Trump praised Mayor Muriel Bowser for this that she works with him to “eliminate” violent crime.
Crime statistics and reality
“Your explanations and actions were positive. In contrast to others such as Pritzker, Wes Moore, Newscum and the Mayor of Chicago, with a 5 %approval rate, who spend all the time to justify violent crime instead of working with us in order to completely eliminate them – which we have done in Washington, DC, now a crime -free zone,” Trump wrote on Monday. “Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to say this about Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and even the city of Baltimore, which is soaked by crimes?” He added: “DC is a huge victory. Who never has to end !!!”
According to the available crime statistics of the Metropolitan Police Department, 442 crimes have been reported in DC in the past seven days. This included 50 reports of violent crimes. A murder. 23 cases of attacks with a dangerous weapon. 24 robberies. And two cases of sex offenses. In addition, almost 250 thefts were reported.
Trump began his so -called action against crime in DC on August 11th. As part of these measures, his administration took over the management of the city’s police. And posted national guards, FBI and ICE agents on the streets. Trump said the campaign was necessary “to save our capital from crime, bloodshed, chaos, misery and worse.”
Bondi celebrates numbers, Trump plans expansion
Justice Minister Pam Bondi regularly celebrates the daily results on X and divides her own arrest statistics. On Monday she wrote: “At this laboratory day we honor the men and women of law enforcement, who work tirelessly day and night to keep our communities safe. In Washington, DC, 71 further arrests were made again. A member of the tren-de-Aragua gang. And 9 other illegal firearms are off the street.”
Although hundreds of crimes were reported in DC last week, the Ministry of Justice emphasized in January that violent crime in Washington, DC, “has been as low as it has not been for over 30 years”. However, Trump announced that he would also like to take over law enforcement in other major US cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore and Oakland.
“We also have other cities that are bad,” said Trump. “We won’t allow it. And we won’t lose our cities because of that. And that will go on. We start very strongly with DC. And we will clean it up very quickly. Very quickly.”
More messages and speculations
Trump also published a number of long contributions to Truth Social on Monday. These include communications about tariffs in India and the success of covid vaccines. “It is very important that the pharmaceutical companies justify the success of their various covid medication,” he wrote. “Many people believe that they are a miracle that have saved millions of life. Others contradict! Since the CDC is torn apart on this question. And I want it now. I have been shown information from Pfizer and others who are extraordinary. But they never seem to show these results to the public. Why not ???”
The flood of news came after speculation had arisen that the president died on Friday evening because he had not performed publicly for several days. On Saturday morning, however, a photo was published that Trump showed when preparing for a round of golf.