Posted on 08/18/2025 1:31:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Six days after declaring the crime crisis in Washington, D.C., was “nonexistent,” The New York Times’ Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker is complaining that President Donald Trump isn’t fixing crime in Washington, D.C.
On Aug. 11, Trump announced his administration would be taking back control of the nation’s capital after decades of government failure. Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, which gives his administration authority to take control of the city’s police department. Trump also declared a pubic safety emergency in the nation’s capital and instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy the D.C. National Guard to help aid in crime-fighting.
Propagandists like Baker sprang into action to decry the move as unnecessary.
“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,” Baker posted on X on Aug. 11.
Of course Baker’s narrative collapses under the weight of the facts. Data shows the nation’s capital is plagued with violent crime, with more than 1,600 violent crimes reported in 2025 thus far and roughly 16,000 total crimes. According to the White House, carjackings are more than three times the national average, with White House Policy Communications Director Jacki Kotkiewicz noting a 547 percent increase in carjackings between 2018 and 2023.
To make matters worse, allegations of officials cooking the books on crime statistics have been plaguing the city.
D.C. Police Union Chairman Gregg Pemberton told NBC Washington last...
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Yes, the USAID money seems to have largely dried up. But I am convinced there is another, probably larger, source of money by which the Democrats in the Deep State control media. The media’s hatred of all-things-Trump is too deep and too illogical for it to be simply ideological stupidity. There has to be financial incentives behind it.
When I was a kid, a DC Crime Crisis meant that Lex Luthor and Brainiac had joined forces. Then came the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and it all became moot.
Well of course liberals won’t admit Trump is doing something right.
They’re developing new medications and treatments for TDS each and every day.
Where do they get these people?
Simple test to determine which statement made by Peter Baker is correct:
1. Dress him in a coat and tie
2. Push him out the door at 7PM and make him walk the streets of DC until 5AM.
3. See if he’s alive in the morning.
If Trump cured cancer, NYT would put a good word in for cancer cells and push for endangered species protection.
Off shore funding. Theft from the UN, NATO, EU scams, UK scams, World Bank, Bank for International Settlements. Tip of Iceberg.
“In a post on social media platform X, the union representing D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department noted that in the seven days since Trump’s announcement, robberies are down 46 percent from the week before.
Amid an overall 8 percent decline in crime, the post noted that carjackings are down 83 percent, car thefts 21 percent, and violent crime is down 22 percent.”
-Daily Mail, IIRC
I don’t understand. How do soldiers with guns stop carjackings?
- Confused in DC.
Don’t forget the Joker
From 800 yds with a spotter.
Doublethink
It’s easy to see why Peter Baker is concerned about what Trump is going to do with the mentally ill ... but we’ve got to get people like Peter off the streets.
This is the same no.1 anti Trump NYT “journalist” - author. Right?
It's probably just leftovers from the billions of dollars of kickbacks that Iran almost certainly funneled to a previous administration that dropped off "pallets of cash" in Iran. Those kickbacks were probably enough to support a mid-sized army.
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