Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday hammered President Trump’s transfer to take management of regulation enforcement in Washington, D.C., saying the president has no justification for taking such a drastic step given falling crime charges within the nation’s capital.
“Violent crime in Washington, D.C. is at a thirty-year low,” Jeffries posted on social platform X. “Donald Trump has no foundation to take over the native police division. And 0 credibility on the difficulty of regulation and order.
“Get lost.”
Jeffries, a frequent critic of the president, was alluding to Trump’s personal authorized observe report, which incorporates two impeachments, his conviction final 12 months on 34 felony counts associated to hush cash funds to a porn star, and his determination to pardon greater than 1,500 individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump has been a long-time critic of the D.C. authorities, usually, and its regulation enforcement system, particularly, accusing native officers of negligence that he says led to a spike in crime through the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, he took that criticism a protracted step ahead by asserting that his administration will assume management of the D.C. Police Division and ship in 800 Nationwide Guard troops to patrol town’s streets.
“Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore,” Trump stated. “We’re not going to take it.”
Trump’s evaluation of crime in D.C. collides immediately with the official numbers from the Justice Division, which discovered that violent crime within the nation’s capital is at its lowest charge in additional than three a long time.
Jeffries was not the one lawmaker to pay attention to that distinction Monday. A lot of Democrats on and off of Capitol Hill hammered Trump’s transfer as extra becoming of an authoritarian regime that seizes energy unilaterally to hobble political rivals and silence critics.
“Trump’s raw authoritarian power grab in DC is part of a growing national crisis. He’s playing dictator in our nation’s capital as a dress rehearsal as he pushes democracy to the brink,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) wrote on his X account.
“This assault on freedom is exactly why we’ve fought for DC statehood & to give DC control of its National Guard.”
