Posted on 08/05/2025 6:40:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump condemned attacks against innocent Americans carried out by lawless teen thugs with virtual impunity in the District of Columbia, as Elon Musk revealed a man recently assaulted was a DOGE team member many speculated to be Edward “Big Balls” Coristine.
Trump on Tuesday issued a Truth Social statement calling on children as young as 14-years-old to be prosecuted as adults in D.C., arguing lawless bands of “youths” attacking innocent Americans are emboldened by Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies.
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!
The president’s message was accompanied by a photo of a shirtless young white man with blood on his face, who appeared to have been the victim of the assault.
On Tuesday afternoon, former DOGE team lead Elon Musk added more details to President Trump’s message, stating, “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.”
Trump corroborated that the victim was a DOGE employee during an Executive Order signing Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters: “Somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt last night—a young man who was beaten up by a bunch of thugs in D.C. Either they’re going to straighten their act out, or we’re going to have to federalize and run it the way it’s supposed to be run.”
On social media, many speculated based on the man’s likeness in the photo shared by Trump that the unnamed victim could be DOGE’s Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, who was unfairly maligned earlier this year by the legacy media.
DOGE staffer Ed Coristine (known as "Big Balls") came to help a lady in DC getting attacked by 8 "teens"
HERO pic.twitter.com/UZXqKtCDgI— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 5, 2025
Independent journalist Patrick Casey appeared to have confirmed the man in the photo was Coristine, but no official source had verified his identity as of writing.
“Big Balls” reportedly resigned at the end of June following Musk’s exit.
If the reports are true, Big Balls has certainly lived up to his monicker.
I agree. There is a war against evil going on in this country, and it needs to be ramped up. Our military is trained to wage war against all evil. "The purpose of our Army is to kill people and break things" as Rush Limbaugh used to say.
A random attack by “youths”? As likely as that is in reality for any person, I am skeptical this was a “random attack” on him.
I guess in this case I will accept he was someone doing the right thing. I would rather have it at that, but given the way the Left is these days, I expect the worst.
Oh gee, I didn’t realize we were switching to Latin today. My bad.
“If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. “
DO IT ALREADY, Mister President!
They don’t call him “Big Balls” for nothing.
Washington DC was run by a Congressional committee until 1973. “Home Rule” that replaced it has been a disaster.
Just end Home Rule and go back to some variation of what we had before. Let the denizens of DC add their federal votes to Maryland.
Our discourse here routinely breaks through the bonds of a single language.
This happen in large democrat cities around the country. Usually the blacks doing the beating are out of jail before the victim is out of the hospital. And the kicking a person in the head? They're going for brain damage.
Yes. Federalize DC and jail the DC City mayor and other city officials.
They are going for death but will take brain damage as a "consolation prize" if they don't get a kill.
You’re wrong.
These gangs have been doing this for a long time. It was written about like ten years ago - right here at FR. Black gangbangers know exactly how far to go SHORT of death because if the victim dies they got to jail. They know how far to take it.
If the victim has brain damage and pain the rest of his/her life, the gangbangers are out of jail before the victim’s out of the hospital.
Also, anyone who notices these crimes are often black on white is called a racist.
He came to the aid of a woman they were attacking and they then attacked him.
And when they’re done moving federal offices out, retrocede all but the capitol and monument areas back to Maryland. Prince George’s County and Montgomery County can flip a coin to see who gets it.
Virginia may or may not want its 40 percent of washedUpDC back, too
Just call weapons free around big leftist cities.
No harm, no foul, no indictments.
I always thought Arlington was ‘supposed’ to be part of DV way back, but they couldn’t agree on something. I suspect Virginia wouldn’t want any of DC if it retroceded. But I left the area in the 90s
We knew this in 1954.
Glad to see I’m not the only one.
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