Trump Moves To End D.C.’s Third-World Lawlessness. Democrats Lose It.

Whenever you find yourself conflicted over a very contentious story in the news, one of the easiest ways to resolve the debate is to listen to people who scream the loudest. People with no argument tend to reveal themselves very quickly, mainly by screeching and ranting incoherently to the point that it’s actually kind of amusing.

That happens to be the case with the ongoing drama over whether or not the nation’s capital, Washington D.C., should resemble Mogadishu or not. On the one hand, you have the president of the United States, who’s just invoked his legal authority to take over the district’s police force for the next 30 days. He’s also pledged to send in the National Guard and redeploy hundreds of FBI agents to perform law enforcement duties on the streets. On the other hand, in defense of allowing the nation’s capital to continue its descent into worse-than-third-world status, you have…this:

You would think they would bring out speakers that could actually speak.

Big words are confusing to these dumbasses. This lady can barely get a single sentence out. pic.twitter.com/NmtmUSCxke

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 11, 2025

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At the very least, you have to be grateful that, for the most part, humans aren’t employed to do closed-captioning anymore. That’s one job that, mercifully, has been eliminated by the wonders of automation. We should all be able to agree that, in the grand scheme of things, it’s much better and more dignified to be unemployed and homeless than to be forced to transcribe complete gibberish like this.

As best I can tell, without the benefit of subtitles, this person appears to believe that Donald Trump is going to deport the black residents of Washington, D.C, although she doesn’t explain her reasoning there. She also appears concerned that “policemens” are going to “escalate” their violence against the black community. And then, to cap it all off, she says that white people have never had their civil rights violated. She’s adamant that mayor Muriel Bowser, who has overseen the continued decay of D.C. for the past 10 years, should remain in charge of the district’s police force.

To be clear, these aren’t cheap shots I’m making here. It’s actually very relevant to point out that black activists in D.C. have somehow selected a spokesperson who can barely speak English. All by itself, that’s indicative of a major, fundamental problem. It’s not just the Pan-African hats and flags flying around. It’s not just the stupidity of the underlying arguments. The simple fact that this person managed to become a spokesperson, in any context, is disqualifying for their entire position. People who cannot speak cannot govern. Period. That really should be the end of the discussion.

But it gets even worse if you try your best to decipher whatever this person was saying. The best-case scenario is that she’s admitting that a lot of illegal aliens live in the nation’s capital. That’s the only reason they’d “have to go wherever the alligators live,” otherwise known as Trump’s “alligator Alcatraz” facility in Florida. Then she makes the point that black people are more likely to be “stopped, searched, arrested and harmed” during police encounters. And that’s absolutely true. Of course, it’s true precisely because black suspects are overwhelmingly more likely than any other demographic in the entire world to commit crimes that merit a police detention, search, arrest, and use of force. But this woman decided to just leave those inconvenient details out. Maybe they were hard to pronounce, who knows.

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Either way, it’s notable that this woman doesn’t spend any amount of time talking about the victims of criminal violence in the nation’s capital (which, by the way, affects a lot of black people). There’s a lot of that tactic going around. Here’s a remarkable paragraph from the Washington Post for example. This ran the other day. And I had to verify it was true, because it seemed too good to be real. But it is real, so here it is. The Washington Post, in their quest to portray Donald Trump as a fascist, interviewed a D.C. resident following a series of violent attacks in his neighborhood. And this was the paper’s report on what that resident told the paper.

“This is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing,” said one resident, speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety. The crowd of teens, he said, were roaming the street and appeared to be checking for unlocked cars and things to steal.

Yes, it’s a “safe city,” says a resident who is “speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.” And then he wags his finger at Trump for, I don’t know, using some mean words I guess. It’s so absurdly unconvincing and contradictory that it’s indistinguishable from a satire article. As Leftists huddle in their panic rooms and use aliases to avoid getting executed by gangs, they’re informing The Washington Post that Donald Trump is, in fact, really racist for trying to enforce the law in the nation’s capital.

Again, they discredit themselves, just by opening their mouths. Over at the New York Times, someone named Peter Baker weighed in with this insight: “Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation’s capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low.”

Then there was this post, from MSNBC’s intelligence cutout, Ken Dilanean: “President Trump announces he is seizing control of DC’s police force as he rolls out a series of false and misleading claims about crime in the city, which is actually at historic lows.”

Neither of these posts is true, for starters. You can pull up the D.C. crime statistics online and see immediately that it’s false. Here’s on chart as an example:

Credit: Metropolitan Police of Washington D.C./mpdc.dc.gov.dailycrime

As you can see, homicides are much higher than they were, just a few years ago. But before we explore this claim further, it’s important to mention that CNN got in on the act too. They aired some live footage of Trump delivering his press conference on the federal takeover of D.C.’s police force. But as they did so, they put some statistics on the screen next to him. Watch:

CNN tries to “fact-check” Trump live on the air with a series of charts insisting crime is not a problem at all in Washington D.C.

I guess CNN thinks crime is okay in the District and that their anchors and correspondents see nothing at issue with the rise in 12, 13, 14 year… pic.twitter.com/Tbc4dMF7u3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 11, 2025

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Yes, CNN informed its viewers that, in fact, the homicide rate in D.C. dropped by 12% from 2024 to 2025. They also say that violent crime dropped 35% from 2023 to 2024, and 26% from 2024 to 2025. And therefore, we’re meant to conclude that D.C. is a perfectly functioning city, and Trump is engaging in some kind of totalitarian overreach.

There are two major problems with this line of argument. First of all, just thinking logically here, imagine your kid comes home one semester with all F’s on his report card. You then tell him that he needs to get his act together and improve his grades. And then, next semester, he comes home with all D’s. In that scenario, most likely, you wouldn’t congratulate him on his stunning improvement. You’d recognize that he still desperately needs some kind of urgent intervention. So this whole idea of using relative statistics, rather than raw numbers, is a pretty massive tell.

But actually, it’s even worse than that.

It turns out that, as you may have guessed, this massive drop in crime numbers in D.C. is probably fake too.

This is reporting from NBC’s Washington bureau just a month ago. Watch:

Again, this is an NBC4 Washington segment from July 18, 2025. pic.twitter.com/WJUjHWUvWq

— L (@SomeBitchIIKnow) August 11, 2025

Credit: @SomeBitchIIKnow/X

In that report, as it goes on, there’s the implication that the police official was only accused of faking these numbers because he filed some kind of complaint against his boss. So there’s a lot of drama unfolding within this department. In any event, we can conclude that these new crime statistics out of Washington are dubious, at best. The official narrative doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, frankly. Crime doesn’t typically plummet for no apparent reason. There hasn’t been any major crackdown on crime in the city. It’s been the same leadership with the same soft on crime policies. It would be totally inexplicable for the crime problem to just magically solve itself.

That’s not how these things usually work, or have ever worked. Even on some mainstream networks, you’ll find some anchors admitting that the official spin isn’t convincing. It’s just too over-the-top. Here’s a clip from ABC News the other day, for example:

ABC ANCHOR: “Here in Downtown D.C., where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past 6 months, there were 2 people shot…Literally, 2 blocks away.”

“I actually was jumped walking just 2 blocks down from here.”

“This morning, my coworker’s car was stolen.” pic.twitter.com/W32oufHHC7

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 11, 2025

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This used to be a pretty uncontroversial point on the Left. In fact, it was one of Joe Biden’s big arguments back in the 1990s, when he was advancing legislation to shut down “super-predators” in D.C., as he called them. Biden talked openly about how people worried about getting carjacked and shot in the city. Watch:

1992. Joe Biden talking about how he runs red lights when driving out of DC to avoid being carjacked. pic.twitter.com/IKdLJSUAPz

— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 12, 2025

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Not much has changed in the last 30 years. And if you look around various Left-wing media outlets over the past year, you’ll find that there have been many, many first-hand observations making the same point.

The Atlantic, for instance, ran a couple of articles about the rampant carjacking that takes place in D.C. these days. The authorities never punish the criminals, and the criminals know that. One of those articles followed a lengthy police pursuit of a stolen Cadillac Escalade, involving a police helicopter with infrared imaging, multiple undercover units, spike strips and several marked units.

At one point in the pursuit, the officers realize there’s a pivotal moment coming up:

If the SUV turned left, staying in Maryland, the detectives could chase it. But if it slipped across the D.C. line, the officers would have a harder time getting permission to chase it. This, too, was an outgrowth of the changing politics of policing over the past decade: Communities all over the country had placed new restraints on police departments’ ability to aggressively pursue criminals. There were good reasons for these reforms—tragic examples of police overreach and outright abuse, especially in predominantly Black neighborhoods, were common. But police say this sudden overhaul had serious unintended consequences: more murders, more carjackings, and more violent crimes of other sorts, most of them in the very communities that the police reforms had ostensibly been aimed at protecting.

Yes, according to the Leftists at The Atlantic, there were “good reasons” for laws that restrict the ability of police officers to do their jobs. And it’s shocking, they say, that these laws had “serious unintended consequences,” such as destroying law and order in the nation’s capital. But of course, the consequences were neither unpredictable, nor unintended. When you don’t allow police to do their jobs, criminals commit more crimes. That’s especially true when the crimes are never punished, which is the case in Washington. At the end of the pursuit involving the Escalade, the driver was arrested and charged with about a dozen felonies. He destroyed the car and damaged a lot of property along the way. But in just a few hours, he was released from a juvenile detention center and sent back out onto the streets.

Because carjackers suffer no consequences in DC, a couple of years ago, the D.C. police department put out this tweet:

MPD is giving away Tiles and AirTags to help our residents track their vehicles.

If you live in PSA 106, 501, 502, 603, 605, or 606, you are eligible for this initiative.

Learn more at https://t.co/vJPoNVZ311 pic.twitter.com/aJCRgAMf7i

— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) November 7, 2023

Credit: @DCPoliceDept/X

It reads, “MPD is giving away Tiles and AirTags to help our residents track their vehicles.”

So they’re hanging out tracking devices, on the assumption that your car is going to get stolen. And really, that’s a fair assumption.

The year this tweet came out, there were reportedly 958 carjackings in Washington DC (population 700,000). That means that D.C. residents have something like a 10% chance of getting carjacked, if they live to 75. (According to one account on X that ran the numbers.) So why not just hand out Air Tags? Sooner or later, there’s a good chance people will need them. They can go and hunt down their car after it’s stolen, because obviously the police won’t help with that.

As a result of D.C.’s refusal to enforce the law, the number of high-profile victims in the capital has been rising in a very steady and public fashion. Mike Gill, a former top official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was murdered early last year in his Jeep in downtown D.C., just a few blocks from the White House. His wife found him in a pool of blood, with one leg still hanging from the Jeep.

In February of 2023, a drug addict assaulted congresswoman Angie Craig in her apartment. She had to pour hot coffee on him to escape, after he “grabbed her neck and slammed her into a steel wall.” That same year, an aide to Senator Rand Paul named Philip Todd was stabbed on the sidewalk in broad daylight.

Then, just a few months later, Henry Cuellar, the Democrat lawmaker from Texas, was robbed by three masked men who took his Toyota and his sushi dinner. This past summer, a congressional intern was murdered at a subway stop. And of course, there was the violent attack on “Big Balls” during an attempted carjacking just a few days ago.

And we can’t forget the case of 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar, either. It was caught on video but we can’t show it, because it’s too horrific.

Credit: Anwar family/GoFundMe.com

Credit: Anwar family/GoFundMe.com

In March of 2021, around 5:30 pm, two teenage girls — aged 13 and 15 — carjacked him while he was doing an Uber Eats delivery in the Navy Yard neighborhood. The girls hit him with a stun gun and attempted to steal his car. They dragged him down the street until he was ejected from the car, killing him. The girls then complained that they had lost their phones in the accident. They had no concern whatsoever for the man they had just killed. 

Guess what happened next?

Both of the carjackers received just a few years in prison. They’ll both be out of jail by their 21st birthday. This is how “juveniles” are sentenced in DC, and every gang understands it. That’s why they use underage thugs as their footsoldiers.

These are not mere anecdotes. Run the numbers, and you’ll find that, as I said, D.C. is worse-than-third world — Havana, Mexico City, Islamabad, Baghdad, and Bogota are all far, far safer.

But as horrifying as all of these incidents and statistics may be, over at CNN, they want you to know that none of it compares — even slightly — to the events of one singular day, many years ago. That day, of course, is January 6th. This is a familiar line that, if only for strategic reasons, you’d think CNN would have dropped by now. But they’re still going with it. Watch:

Dana Bash response to Trump federalizing DC police to fight violent crime: “I should note that the most violent moment in recent DC history was January 6.”

This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/2e0azaXTjd

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 11, 2025

Seeing this clip, a lot of people have made the very important point that, on January 6th, the only people who died were Trump supporters. One of them was shot for no reason. Another supposedly died of “natural causes.” That’s all true. And of course the comparison is absurd and desperate.

But it’s also very revealing. January 6th, as you may remember, was a response to the lawlessness that broke out all over the country during the Summer of George Floyd. The only way to understand the events of January 6th is to consider the preceding ten months, when Biden voters caused billions of dollars in property damage, killed several people, besieged federal courthouses and set entire city blocks on fire — all based on complete fabrications, and all without any consequences.  The only people who suffered consequences were people like Kyle Rittenhouse, who tried to stop the mob.

So the lesson from January 6th is not that Washington D.C. should have federal police, or shouldn’t have federal police. The lesson is that, above all else, law and order must be enforced. If you allow some parts of the country to descend into lawlessness, sooner or later, you’ll get even more lawlessness. And eventually, people won’t stand for it anymore. They can’t. Once they lose their jobs and their freedoms, they have no choice.

At CNN, they’re pretending to ignore the context of January 6th. They’re also acting as if they didn’t advocate, in the aftermath of January 6th, for the full-scale military occupation of the nation’s capital, supposedly to protect Joe Biden from hordes of  phantom white supremacists. Here’s what that looked like:

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Somehow, none of these photographs alarmed the anchorwomen at CNN. And why would they? After all, the troops were just temporary. They knew that, as soon as Joe Biden took the oath of office and retired to the White House basement, the guards would leave. The fences would come down. And the nation’s capital would again revert to a state of anarchy.

What’s different about the latest deployment of the National Guard, and the takeover of the police force in D.C., is the objective. The goal is not to perform security theater for the benefit of the Democrat Party. Instead, for once, the federal government is going to use the military (and the FBI and other federal agencies) to advance the interests of American citizens. That includes men like Mike Gill, who are sitting in their Jeeps downtown. It includes women like Angie Craig, who are just trying to get back to their apartment. And it includes staffers like “Big Balls,” as well. These are the kinds of people the Pentagon and the White House are supposed to protect, before they even think about assisting some foreign entity in one way or another.

This is the government’s entire job description: defend Americans. The reason you’re seeing so much angst and misdirection from Democrats is that, for the first time in memory, that’s exactly what’s happening right now.