President Donald Trump vowed on Monday to clean up the nation&#8217;s capital and crack down on the rampant crime that has made Washington, D.C., unsafe — and Democrats apparently have a problem with that.
As The Daily Wire reported, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-gonna-take-our-capital-back-heres-everything-trump-is-going-to-do-to-clean-up-d-c">announced his plan</a> to invoke Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and declare a public emergency — a move that allows him to bring the D.C. Police Department under the control of the Justice Department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) claimed that Trump was turning the country into a &#8220;dictatorship&#8221; by mobilizing people who would clean up what the city wouldn&#8217;t.
&#8220;Trump is going to federalize DC. Senate Dems could have stopped this when we had power. In 2021, the House voted to make DC a state, but a few Senate Dems flinched and genuflected to the filibuster. Now, DC will be under an aspiring dictator’s control,&#8221; he complained.
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Trump is going to federalize DC. Senate Dems could have stopped this when we had power. In 2021, the House voted to make DC a state, but a few Senate Dems flinched and genuflected to the filibuster. Now, DC will be under an aspiring dictator’s control. <a href="https://t.co/U83qtlWZxv">pic.twitter.com/U83qtlWZxv</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1954871975802818863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries objected to Trump&#8217;s plan, lashing out at the president and claiming that violent crime was lower than it had been in decades.
&#8220;Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low. Donald Trump has no basis to take over the local police department. And zero credibility on the issue of law and order. Get lost,&#8221; Jeffries posted via X.
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Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low.
Donald Trump has no basis to take over the local police department.
And zero credibility on the issue of law and order.
Get lost.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1954926861882110385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Jeffries was not alone — in fact, so many Democrats and left-leaning accounts posted the same comments almost verbatim that it led a few to observe, &#8220;The early morning DNC talking points email just dropped.&#8221;
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The early morning DNC talking points email just dropped. 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/tCs2g8U8X9">pic.twitter.com/tCs2g8U8X9</a>
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1954947281540841559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But as Red State&#8217;s Bonchie and several others pointed out, the source of the data those Democrats were citing was the Washington, D.C., Metro Police Department — where a commander had just been suspended for altering crime statistics in an effort to downplay the city&#8217;s obvious problem.
&#8220;The source of all the claims that crime is down in DC is &#8230; the DC Metro PD, which is led by a far-left DEI advocate who had to suspend a commander for&#8230;altering crime statistics,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;So yeah, you can decide whether to trust those numbers or not.&#8221;
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FYI: The source of all the claims that crime is down in DC is&#8230;the DC Metro PD, which is led by a far-left DEI advocate who had to suspend a commander for&#8230;altering crime statistics.
So yeah, you can decide whether to trust those numbers or not.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1954923736265584828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In July 2025, DC police commander suspended for downgrading shootings, stabbings &amp; carjackings to lesser offenses to make crime stats look better.
They’re not fixing crime, they’re cooking the books. <a href="https://t.co/HRc3OQktnS">pic.twitter.com/HRc3OQktnS</a>
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) <a href="https://twitter.com/KylieJaneKremer/status/1954937308286943547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That didn&#8217;t stop media outlets from grabbing a bucket and carrying water for the Democrats, however.
On MSNBC, host Eugene Daniels attempted to bait D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser into making it about race, saying of Trump and Republicans, &#8220;They seem to hold their harshest criticism sometimes for cities that are majority black and brown.&#8221;
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MSNBC analyst says Trump is trying to bring down DC’s crime rate because he’s racist. This is how broken Democrat ideas are. They’d rather more black people die than have peace and order in DC under Trump. <a href="https://t.co/TOuIntsfiu">pic.twitter.com/TOuIntsfiu</a>
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1954940289388556665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN anchor Dana Bash took it in a different direction, claiming that the &#8220;most violent moment&#8221; in the capital city&#8217;s recent history was January 6th, 2021.
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CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash talking about President Trump&#8217;s plan to address crime in D.C.: I should note that the most violent moment in recent history in D.C. was January 6th, and it was an attack on the United States Capitol by a lot of people who were doing it in the name of Donald Trump <a href="https://t.co/ncCtrPVRkv">pic.twitter.com/ncCtrPVRkv</a>
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1954941186399142297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum defended Trump — and noted that attempts to put a stop to violent crime should not be an issue divided along political lines. &#8220;This is not a partisan issue &#8230; This is the place where we showcase America — and we can&#8217;t showcase America in a place where the police are not allowed to enforce the law,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecretaryBurgum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecretaryBurgum</a>: &#8220;This is not a partisan issue&#8230; This is the place where we showcase America — and we can&#8217;t showcase America in a place where the police are not allowed to enforce the law.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/X05RdGDoeq">pic.twitter.com/X05RdGDoeq</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1954956074211274863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump Promises To Clean Up D.C., And Democrats Are … Mad?

Trump Promises To Clean Up D.C., And Democrats Are ... Mad?

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President Donald Trump promised on Monday to clean up crime and vagrancy in the nation&#8217;s capital by shifting more responsibilities over the district to the federal government. 
Trump made the announcement during a press conference at the White House, where he laid out a number of executive actions he was taking to fight violent crime, decrease homelessness, and otherwise clean up Washington, D.C. 
“I&#8217;m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation&#8217;s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” Trump said. “ This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we&#8217;re gonna take our capital back. We&#8217;re taking it back.” 
Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act and declared a public emergency. This granted him to move the D.C. Police Department under the control of the Justice Department. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will head the department, per Trump&#8217;s orders. 
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and U.S. District Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro all appeared alongside Trump at the news conference.
The president also added that he was sending 800 National Guard troops to patrol the streets of D.C. Last week, the administration sent 500 federal agents into the district, including from the FBI, ATF, DEA, Park Police, the U.S. Marshal Service, the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security. 
“The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth,” Trump said, adding that “the only language” that criminals understand is when you “knock the hell out of them.” 
The president added that he would like to see Republicans in Congress move to end cashless bail in the district, saying that the policy led to lawlessness in the streets. Trump added that he planned to improve infrastructure in the district and crack down on homeless encampments. 
“We&#8217;re going to replace the medians that are falling down all over the roads. We&#8217;re gonna replace the potholes,” he said. 
Burgum, who briefly spoke during the conference, said that Park Police had cleared over 70 homeless camps from D.C. since March 27. 
“We’re going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can&#8217;t walk on,” Trump said. “We&#8217;re moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people. Some of those people, we don&#8217;t know how they even got there.”

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‘We’re Gonna Take Our Capital Back’: Here’s Everything Trump Is Going To Do To Clean Up D.C.

‘We're Gonna Take Our Capital Back’: Here's Everything Trump Is Promising To Do To Clean Up D.C.

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President Donald Trump said Monday that the nation’s capital would be liberated from “savagery, filth,” and “scum” as he is reportedly set to deploy the National Guard to Washington, D.C.
Trump made the comments in a Truth Social post ahead of a Monday press conference at the White House that is expected to focus on crime and homelessness in D.C. 
“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,” he <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115010061198729847">wrote</a>. 
That post followed an earlier one where he wrote, “LIBERATION DAY IN D.C. WE ARE TAKING OUR CAPITAL BACK!!!”
For the past few months, Trump has repeatedly threatened to federalize D.C. over rampant crime and homelessness, and multiple <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-crime-capital-netanyahu-defends-gaza-plan-morning-rundown-rcna224222">reports </a>suggest that he is prepared to deploy up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the city. 
The recent moves to crack down on crime in the nation&#8217;s capital come after 19-year-old Trump administration staffer Ed Coristine was beaten as he defended a woman from a group of teenagers during an attempted carjacking in D.C. Coristine, who once went by the moniker “Big Balls,” was surrounded by the teens while out late at night.
Trump said Sunday that he would be taking actions to get the homeless out of D.C. and make sure that criminals stay behind bars.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”
“The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he added.

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President Donald Trump gave a preview on Sunday of a planned Monday press conference that he said was aimed at addressing several of the major public safety issues currently plaguing Washington, D.C.
Trump first announced the press conference via his Truth Social platform on Saturday, saying, &#8220;On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!!&#8221;
He followed that announcement on Sunday morning with a post laying out some of the details and sharing photos of the homeless encampments that he intended to address in his remarks.
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&#8220;We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,&#8221; Trump said, first addressing the issues relating to the homeless population — and saying that they would have to move out of the city. &#8220;The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.&#8221;
Trump then pivoted to address those who were breaking the law in the capital city, citing his administration&#8217;s rapid success in gaining operational control of the southern border and suggesting that he would tackle issues in the nation&#8217;s capital in equal measure.
&#8220;The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no &#8216;MR. NICE GUY.&#8217; We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221;

‘We Want Our Capital Back’: Trump Gives Preview Of Monday Press Conference On Public Safety In D.C.

'We Want Our Capital Back': Trump Gives Preview Of Monday Press Conference On Public Safety In D.C.

Just like woke leftism took over our universities and institutions, it also <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/george-soross-prosecutors-wage-war-law-and-order">spread its tentacles</a> into our criminal justice system, prioritizing leniency and bail reform over law and order. The failure of leftist criminal justice reform has shown us that what’s true of wokeness in the classroom and boardroom is also true of wokeness on the street: the average American suffers so that leftist activists can feel better about themselves. 
Woke city leaders and soft-on-crime district attorneys put Americans in harm&#8217;s way for the sake of their ideology. Criminals who should be behind bars are often set free to again terrorize the streets thanks to lenient sentences or low bail. 
This issue was on full display recently when a young Trump administration staffer was brutally beaten by a group of delinquents while defending his girlfriend from an attempted carjacking in the nation’s capital. The victim of the attack was Ed Coristine, 19, who gained notoriety by going by the social media moniker “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-staffer-big-balls-hailed-as-hero-after-musk-says-he-saved-woman-from-gang-in-d-c?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Staffer+%E2%80%98Big+Balls%E2%80%99+Hailed+As+Hero+After+Musk+Says+He+Saved+Woman+From+%E2%80%98Gang%E2%80%99+In+D.C.">Big Balls</a>” and working on Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency project.
According to a report from CBS News, Coristine and his girlfriend were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-staffer-big-balls-hailed-as-hero-after-musk-says-he-saved-woman-from-gang-in-d-c?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Staffer+%E2%80%98Big+Balls%E2%80%99+Hailed+As+Hero+After+Musk+Says+He+Saved+Woman+From+%E2%80%98Gang%E2%80%99+In+D.C.">threatened</a> in the early morning hours by around 10 teenagers who said they wanted to take his car. Acting quickly, “Big Balls” pushed his girlfriend into the vehicle to protect her from the gang and faced the attackers alone. 
President Donald Trump and former Trump adviser Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1952836498971344926">commented</a> on Coristine’s bravery, with the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">blasting</a> D.C.’s soft-on-crime policies that lead to teenagers “randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.” 
As Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-needs-big-balls-not-mahmoud-khalil">pointed out</a>, Coristine was ripped apart by the legacy media just weeks ago for working for DOGE and for going by the name “Big Balls” on social media. The legacy media were <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/teen-doge-staffer-big-balls-left-trump-administration-rcna214900">outraged</a> that “Big Balls,” a 19-year-old kid, was looking through government systems and identifying waste and fraud. 
“But it turns out that Edward Coristine isn’t just a young genius who is capable of looking at budgetary numbers and figuring out where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. It turns out he is an amazing dude,” Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-needs-big-balls-not-mahmoud-khalil">said</a>. 
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Let’s take a moment to examine how despicable the legacy media is.
Let’s contrast an actual heroic human being, the kind we need more of in America, the kind the media hates, with a person who&#8217;s awful, a person the media continue to tout.
First, the hero. His name is Edward Coristine and he was ripped up and down by the media when he first came onto the public scene. Why? Because he was working for Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Governmental Efficiency and he was known as “Big Balls.’
According to the Left-wing media, the idea that you would have a young man who calls himself with this moniker, looking over the American budgetary system and saying, “This doesn&#8217;t belong and this does belong,” was the end of the world.
That was terrible. That was awful. We couldn&#8217;t have somebody like that working in our system.
But it turns out that Edward Coristine isn&#8217;t just a young genius who is capable of looking at budgetary numbers and figuring out where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. It turns out he is an amazing dude.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-administration-staffer-known-as-big-balls-assaulted-in-dc-00494990">Politico</a>:
<blockquote>A 19-year-old man known as “Big Balls” who played a key role in the DOGE initiative to shrink the size of government was assaulted over the weekend in Washington, according to city police. Edward Coristine, who still works for the government, was assaulted by approximately 10 juveniles near Dupont Circle about 3 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report obtained by POLITICO. Police arrested two 15-year olds as they attempted to flee the scene. 
A black iPhone 16 valued at $1,000 was also reported stolen during the incident, according to the report. President Donald Trump posted a photo on his social media platform showing a shirtless Coristine with what appeared to be blood spattered on his face, body and pants. He called for a change in the law so that the juveniles who attacked him could be charged as adults.</blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">wrote</a>: 
<blockquote>Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs.  
Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore. Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime. If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!</blockquote>
What exactly happened here?
Apparently, Coristine said that the assailants approached him outside his vehicle while he was with a woman identified in the report as his significant other. He told police officers he got the other person into the vehicle just before he was attacked.
This young man made sure that the woman was not attacked. Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1952836498971344926">wrote</a> on X, “A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC.”
Remember, the media thought that this kid, this young man, was bad. He was bad because he was very online and he was young and he was smart, and he wanted to go through the governmental records. This was the kind of person we needed fewer of in America. According to our legacy media, “Big Balls” was the problem with America.
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Meanwhile, the media was championing another young man, claiming that he is the kind of person America needs.
That would be Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmoud Khalil, of course, was the import from abroad; an activist who hates America, who hates the West, who hates Israel, who is not only complicit in anti-Semitism, but is an anti-Semitic provocateur. He was imported to Columbia University to essentially act as an activist against the West, against America, against Israel and against Jews.
When the Trump administration looked at his participation in the violent student protests at Columbia, they decided to deport him. But a court stopped that deportation, and the entire Left rallied to his cause. He was a victim; America needed more Mahmoud Khalils.
Mahmoud Khalil is now out there on the talk circuit, and he sat with Ezra Klein over at the New York Times, where he promptly explained to Ezra Klein that essentially, October 7 was justified, that Israel had it coming, that there was no actual anti-Semitism at Columbia University or anything of the like.
According to the Left, this is the person, this Mahmoud Khalil, whom we need more of, and fewer of the “Big Balls” type of young men. We need more imports from third-world countries who hate America and hate Jews and make our country worse.
If you actually watch the entire interview with Ezra Klein, some of the things that Khalil said were astonishingly pro-terrorism.
At one point, he said, “Having lived in the Middle East most of my life” — he lived in Syria — “The only Jew you hear about is someone who&#8217;s trying to kill you. For those in Gaza and the West Bank, that&#8217;s the only Jewish person they encounter, the one at checkpoints, the one raiding their homes.”
Khalil didn&#8217;t grow up around Jews. He grew up in Syria. And yet he is openly stating that he grew up hating Jews.
And so he came to the United States. He found a bunch of Left-wing Jews like Jewish Voice for Peace — which is not Jewish or a voice for peace — and according to him, that&#8217;s what real Judaism is, which is an absurdity.
Khalil told Klein there was no anti-Semitism at Columbia. He said, “It&#8217;s not like anti-Semitism is happening at Columbia because of the Palestine movement,” which is, of course, a lie. And then he said, “From the river to the sea, from the Palestinian perspective, no one ever said it&#8217;s a violent call.” And then, of course, he defended “globalize the intifada.” He said October 7 was not an aggressive attack. He said it was just to break the cycle, that Palestinians were not being heard.
This Left-wing martyr is a pro-terror show. That&#8217;s always what he was.
But the Left insists that he be allowed into the country, and that not only that, we need more of these people in our country.
The contrast between the media vilification of this young white man who was working for the federal government to cut waste, fraud and abuse, the kind of person who will rush to a woman&#8217;s side to save her from being assaulted by thugs, and the absolutely kid-glove glowing treatment given to Mahmoud Khalil by Ezra Klein and the rest of the legacy media is astonishing and disgusting.
It speaks to not only what the media are, but what the Left has become. I will say it over and over and over again. The Left-wing is Zohran Mamdani. The Left-wing is not some moderate senator from Minnesota like Amy Klobuchar, who&#8217;s bad enough. It&#8217;s all Mamdani, period. It’s people like Khalil, who champions terrorism. That’s what the Left thinks is right for America.
But a genius kid who saves a woman from thugs and has a nickname they hate? He’s not right for America.
Their agenda could not be any more obvious. Or vicious.

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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he may mobilize the National Guard in Washington, D.C., if the city is unable to crack down on violent crime.
The commander in chief, who deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this year in response to anti-ICE riots, made the comment at the White House after a reporter asked if he was considering taking over the police in D.C.
&#8220;We&#8217;re considering it, yeah, because the crime is ridiculous,&#8221; Trump said, adding later that his plan may include &#8220;bringing in the National Guard, maybe, very quickly, too.&#8221;
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&#8220;Are you considering taking over the D.C. Police?&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;We&#8217;re considering it, yeah, because the crime is ridiculous &#8230; That includes bringing in the National Guard, maybe, very quickly, too.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/IkAIFhiVzP">pic.twitter.com/IkAIFhiVzP</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1953211113912598799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump reiterated his interest in federalizing D.C. in addition to talking about his desire to clean up the nation&#8217;s capital with projects such as removing graffiti and fixing up roads.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to beautify the city,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-staffer-big-balls-hailed-as-hero-after-musk-says-he-saved-woman-from-gang-in-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> about Ed Coristine, aka &#8220;Big Balls,&#8221; a government staffer who was beaten up while trying to protect a woman during an attempted carjacking in D.C. Police <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5438174-arrests-big-balls-doge-edward-coristine-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they have arrested two juveniles in connection with the assault.
&#8220;You know, we just almost lost a young man. Beautiful, handsome guy who got the hell knocked out of him the night before last,&#8221; Trump said.
The president noted that he planned to speak with Coristine on the phone as the 19-year-old recovers from the violent incident.
&#8220;He went through a bad situation, to put it mildly. And there&#8217;s too much of it,&#8221; Trump said.
On Tuesday, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to Truth Social an image that appeared to show a beaten-up Coristine and warned federalization would happen if D.C. does not stymie violent crime.
Among those who <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1952836498971344926" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vouched</a> for the idea response to Trump&#8217;s announcement was Elon Musk, who worked with Coristine in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat who is the D.C. non-voting delegate in the House, responded to Musk on X and pushed back on what Trump was saying.
&#8220;1) Violent crime is horrific and unacceptable no matter where it occurs,&#8221; Norton <a href="https://x.com/EleanorNorton/status/1953146790087098861" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;2) DC&#8217;s violent crime rate is at a 30-year low. 3) Presidents have no authority to unilaterally take control of DC. Congress would have to pass a law, and I won&#8217;t let the current effort get that far.&#8221;
However, Norton may not get her way as some Republican lawmakers have voiced interest in revoking the D.C. Home Rule that allows the capital city a limited amount of self-governance.
When asked on Wednesday if he wants Congress to look at overturning the D.C. Home Rule Act, Trump said that &#8220;the lawyers are already studying&#8221; the matter.
&#8220;This has to be the best-run place in the country, not the worst-run place in the country,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And it has so much potential. And we&#8217;re going to take care of it. You&#8217;re going to be safe &#8230; walking down streets.&#8221;

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon was interrupted during an appearance at a conservative event on Wednesday by protestors blasting circus music and audio insults played over nearly a dozen Bluetooth speakers spread throughout the room.
The incident occurred during McMahon’s appearance at the 47th National Conservative Student Conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by Young America’s Foundation.
As McMahon attempted during a sit-down interview with YAF president and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, McMahon was interrupted mid-sentence by loud audio of a man who, among other things, accused the secretary of being a “corrupt billionaire.”
In response, Walker quipped that “apparently, the [Chinese Communist Party]” didn’t like her remarks, and that “they’re cutting into our technology.”
The audience laughed, and Walker and McMahon attempted to move on. But the interruptions did not end there.
Later, a recording of a woman ranting about “fat geriatric[s]” elicited an audible gasp from the audience. Students began to whisper to one another as the interruptions, which threatened to drown out the secretary’s comments, continued seemingly at random and from different corners of the auditorium.
Nevertheless, Walker and McMahon plowed ahead with their scheduled discussion, speaking over the chaos as YAF staffers scrambled to find and confiscate the personal audio devices.
“This is so weird,” one attendee whispered.
Event organizers collected an estimated eight Bluetooth speakers found under tables and chairs.
“This afternoon, a joyless, sore-loser leftist sought to silence the 13th Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, during her fireside chat with YAF President Governor Scott Walker at our National Conservative Student Conference,” YAF spokesman Spencer Brown told The Daily Wire.
Brendon Poteet of the University of Missouri, Columbia, told The Daily Wire that, &#8220;The first time it happened, I thought it was just a silly little YAF thing … and then it kept on happening again, and then it happened at my table.”
“I was just sitting, second row, and we noticed the Secret Service Agent inching closer and closer towards us,” he added. “That&#8217;s when I was like, &#8216;this is kind of ominous.&#8217; And one of the people found a note attached to one of the speakers.&#8221;
The Post-it note the student says he found bears the Latin phrase “Vox clamantis,” which translates to “a voice crying out.”
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“I didn&#8217;t think it was sabotage [at first],” said Isaac Hoilman of the University of North Carolina Asheville. “I thought the wires were messed up or something. But when it started playing clown music, I thought something was up.&#8221;
Finally, as McMahon discussed Trump’s hiring and managerial choices, Bluetooth speakers began to blare Julius Fucik’s “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entrance of the Gladiators</a>,&#8221; an 1897 military march that has become the  unofficial theme song for clowns and circuses.
YAF staff instructed students on the way out of the session to take their personal belongings so that “the CCP and the teachers’ unions can’t interrupt us anymore.”
The National Conservative Student Conference, which began on Monday, had not previously experienced any technical issues or interruptions.
Olivia D’Angelo is a reporter studying journalism at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C.

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A Trump administration staffer is receiving warm words and calls for recognition after he was reportedly beaten in Washington, D.C., while protecting a woman from an attempted carjacking.
The staffer, Ed Coristine, 19, who once went by the moniker “Big Balls” online, works at the Social Security Administration and began his government service as a member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project. President Donald Trump shared a photo on Tuesday of Coristine covered in blood after the attack and threatened to “federalize” D.C. over rampant crime.
“I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt last night. You saw that – a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC,” said Trump on Tuesday. “Either they&#8217;re going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we&#8217;re going to have to federalize and run it the way it&#8217;s supposed to be run.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;Somebody from <a href="https://twitter.com/DOGE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DOGE</a> was very badly hurt last night&#8230; a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in D.C. Either they&#8217;re going to straighten their act out&#8230; or we&#8217;re going to have to federalize and run it the way it&#8217;s supposed to be run.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Z6Ywr9oYYX">https://t.co/Z6Ywr9oYYX</a> <a href="https://t.co/yhg9mRfDaF">pic.twitter.com/yhg9mRfDaF</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1952840166458195972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-doge-staffer-edward-coristine-injured-in-attempted-carjacking-trump-federal-takeover-of-d-c/">According</a> to CBS News, the woman was Coristine&#8217;s &#8220;significant other.&#8221; The outlet reported that they were surrounded by about 10 teenagers, and the suspects made a comment about taking their vehicle. Coristine then pushed his significant other into the vehicle and turned to deal with the alleged attackers, the report said.
In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">post</a>, the president said that crime in the nation’s capital is “totally out of control” and that the attack on Coristine was carried out by “local ‘youths’ and gang members.” Criminal teens are operating with impunity, “knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”
“The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these ‘minors’ as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14,” said Trump. &#8220;Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see.”
The attack reportedly happened on Sunday morning around 3 a.m. near Dupont Circle. Police arrested two 15-year-olds at the scene and charged them with unarmored carjacking, according to CBS News. Most of the teens fled when law enforcement arrived. A black iPhone 16 was stolen, according to the police report.
Tech titan Elon Musk, the former head of DOGE, backed the president’s call to take over Washington, D.C. Musk also said Coristine was attacked trying to assist a woman who was the initial target of “a gang of about a dozen young men.”
“A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A [DOGE] team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC,” Musk posted.
Coristine has been hailed for his bravery. GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah floated the idea of rewarding Coristine with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.
“Big Balls for the Medal of Freedom. Who agrees?” Lee <a href="https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1952877203919913290">posted</a> to X.
“WOW. The [DOGE] employee who was brutally beaten in DC for defending a woman has been identified as none other than ‘BIG BALLS,’” the popular account Libs of TikTok <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1952869965742158269">posted</a>. “Big Balls is a HERO!”

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is considering taking complete control of Washington, D.C., to fight the violent crime that &#8220;is totally out of control&#8221; and often committed by teenagers.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">wrote</a> on Truth Social that violent crime in the city is being committed by teenagers who are then getting &#8220;immediately released&#8221; if arrested. In his post, Trump shared a photo of a bloodied young man whom he said was &#8220;beaten mercilessly by local thugs.&#8221;
&#8220;They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now!&#8221; the president said of the teenage criminals. &#8220;The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these &#8216;minors&#8217; as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.&#8221;
&#8220;Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,&#8221; Trump added.
The president also threatened to take control of the nation&#8217;s capital in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/law-and-order-trump-says-feds-should-take-over-washington-d-c">February</a>, blasting D.C. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser&#8217;s leadership.
&#8220;I think that we should govern the District of Columbia. It&#8217;s so important,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1892419597141262429">said</a> aboard Air Force One on February 19. &#8220;I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawlessly beautiful.&#8221;
D.C. leaders recently created a new police unit to focus on juvenile crime as the city faces an increase in teenagers fighting at school and breaking the law outside of school, NBC 4 Washington <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-unit-to-focus-on-stopping-juvenile-crimes-before-they-happen/3883054/">reported</a>. Each year since 2020, the number of juveniles arrested in the nation&#8217;s capital has increased. In 2024, the majority of all robbery arrests involved juveniles, and around 60% of carjacking arrests through the first three months of 2025 involved minors.
Republicans in Congress <a href="https://statehood.dc.gov/page/why-statehood-dc">introduced</a> legislation earlier this year to end &#8220;home rule&#8221; in D.C., which allows residents to control their local affairs, and give Congress more control over the city. Under &#8220;home rule,&#8221; D.C. residents can elect their mayor and city council while Congress maintains some oversight. The city council is made up of 11 Democrats and two independents.
The bill, spearheaded by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Mike Lee (R-UT), specifically called out &#8220;the mayor and city council’s failure to prevent violent crime, corruption, and voting by non-citizens.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to crack down on homelessness across the country. 
The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/">executive order</a> aims to make it easier to house homeless people with serious drug addictions and mental conditions in humane “long-term institutional settings” and encourages states to enforce existing laws against public drug use and squatting.
“Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single night during the last year of the previous administration — 274,224 — was the highest ever recorded,” the order states. “Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens.”
As part of the order, Trump directed his administration to seek to reverse federal and state judicial precedents and consent decrees that prevented the commitment of “individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public” into “appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.”
The order also encourages his administration to offer grants that motivate states to crack down on public drug use, urban camping, loitering, and urban squatting. 
Trump also directed his administration to stop funding programs that promote “harm reduction” or the “safe consumption” of drugs. During the Biden administration, there was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-sent-the-black-community-crack-pipes-social-media-erupts-in-response-to-crack-pipe-racial-equity-initiative">public outcry</a> after a report said that the administration was distributing free crack pipes in “safe smoking kits.” 
In 2024, homelessness reached its highest total since 2007, when data collection began, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF12985/IF12985.1.pdf">according</a> to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. On a single night in 2024, there were roughly 771,480 people without homes, including 274,224 who had no shelter at all. California had the largest homeless population in the country, with <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a> placing the total around 187,000. 
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-rules-in-favor-of-oregon-citys-ban-on-homeless-encampments">ruled</a> last year that local ordinances restricting camping on public property do not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against enacting cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment.
On Friday, Trump was asked about a group of homeless people camping outside the Treasury Department. 
“I think it’s terrible and we’ll have them removed immediately,” he told reporters. “We’ve got to get the mayor to run this city properly. This city has to be run. You know, I have the right to take it over, and I think it’s terrible.” 
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REPORTER: &#8220;I saw homeless people sleeping right outside the gates of the White House&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s terrible and we&#8217;ll have them removed immediately.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/iC2NX8RgOh">pic.twitter.com/iC2NX8RgOh</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1948742404699250752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump has long <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gives-d-c-mayor-ultimatum-on-unsightly-homeless-encampments?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Gives+D.C.+Mayor+Ultimatum+On+‘Unsightly+Homeless+Encampments’">threatened</a> to strip the authority of Washington D.C. from Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser. Bowser has previously said that homeless encampments are “not technically permitted in the District” and has signaled she would be open to working with the White House to address the problem.

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President Donald Trump has promised an elaborate Independence Day signing ceremony for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” recently approved by Congress.
The president teased plans for the ceremony while speaking to reporters on Thursday. Trump said that the ceremony would feature a number of United States military warplanes, including the B-2, F-22, and F-35.
Trump said the ceremony would start around 5 p.m. ET, and he would be joined by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), and most Republicans in Congress.
“At about 5:00 o’clock, we&#8217;re going to have B-2s and F-22s and F-35s flying right over the White House,” Trump said. “It’s going to be a great day, so we&#8217;ll be signing with those beautiful planes flying right over our heads.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on tomorrow&#39;s One Big Beautiful Bill signing: &quot;We&#39;re signing at about 5:00p — and at about 5:00p, we&#39;re going to have B-2s and F-22s and F-35s flying right over the White House &#8230; so we&#39;ll be signing with those beautiful planes flying right over our heads.&quot; 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/40CjzwfvF9">pic.twitter.com/40CjzwfvF9</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940884169934156005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The House gave final approval on Thursday to send the “Big, Beautiful Bill” to Trump’s desk in time for his July 4 deadline. Johnson and Trump whipped votes and met with holdouts in the hours leading up to the vote, securing a 218-214 majority to pass the legislation on Thursday afternoon.
&#8220;I think when you go over the bill, it was very easy to get them to a ‘Yes,’” Trump told reporters on Thursday after the bill’s passage. “You know, we went over that bill point after point: biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border, immigration is covered – we covered just about everything. Again, it&#8217;s the biggest bill ever signed of its kind.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &quot;I think when you go over the bill, it was very easy to get them to a &#39;Yes.&#39; &#8230; Biggest tax cut in history, great for security, great on the southern border &#8230; we covered just about everything. Again, it&#39;s the biggest bill ever signed of its kind.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/0nfeQ5IDuo">pic.twitter.com/0nfeQ5IDuo</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1940882245482676660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-beautiful-and-on-the-way-to-trumps-desk-congress-passes-historic-spending-bill">secured</a> the votes to pass the massive package at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) then held the House floor for over eight hours, speaking to delay the bill’s passage, but ultimately powerless to stop it.
“With one big, beautiful bill, we are going to make this country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before. And every American is going to benefit from this,” Johnson said just before the vote. “Today we are laying a key cornerstone of America’s new Golden Age.”
The bill’s passage is just the latest landmark victory for the president that has seen a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mentum-from-iran-to-big-beautiful-bill-prez-scores-landmark-victories-in-past-two-weeks?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=TRUMP-MENTUM%3A+From+Iran+To+Big%2C+Beautiful+Bill%2C+Prez+Scores+Landmark+Victories+In+Past+Two+Weeks">cascade</a> of wins in recent weeks. Just under two weeks ago, Trump greenlit a bomb and missile strike targeting Iranian nuclear facilities that “obliterated” Tehran’s nuclear program at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan.

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