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The Chris Plante Show

8-11-25 Hour 1 - Trump Vows to Fix DC Crime

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In hour 1, Chris talks about what to expect from Today's big presser on DC Crime... For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday  To join the conversation, check us out on X @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Crime is ridiculous.

0:05.8

I could show you a chart comparing D.C. to other locations, and you're not going to want to see what it looks like.

0:11.6

Now, we want to have a great safe capital, and we're going to have it.

0:15.7

And that includes cleanliness and it includes other things.

0:18.4

We have a capital that's very unsafe. You know, we just almost lost a young man, beautiful, handsome guy that got the hell knocked out of him the night before last.

0:30.6

Now, President Trump lost the Democrats there with the word cleanliness. That really rubs them the wrong way, doesn't it?

0:40.9

They're not known for their cleanliness, are they?

0:44.2

Nor is the corpulent governor of the state of Illinois, known for his odoriferous ambiance.

0:56.5

And not much more, really, and, oh, and inheriting billions of dollars of other people's money.

1:02.9

It's good to be a Democrat, isn't it?

1:05.9

Well, a very good Monday morning to you and welcome.

1:10.3

We remain at 888-630-9-625, open with President Trump talking about, well, what he's going to be talking about in less than an hour from the White House, and that is crime in Washington, D.C.

1:24.8

How many, they just arrest another teenager down in the Navy Yard by the baseball field?

1:28.8

Open fire with his pistol.

1:31.7

I don't think it was legally owned.

1:33.3

Was it a legally owned firearm?

1:35.6

Have they arrested anybody for any crimes involving a legally owned firearm since the Supreme

1:42.0

Court mandated that Washington, D.C. allowed the Second Amendment to exist in

1:47.2

Washington. I think not. Amazing time to be alive. Amazing time to be in Washington, D.C. And President

1:53.7

Trump, with a crackdown, the news media loves the word crackdown. I think a lot of them,

1:59.6

you know, they, that crackdown is like when you sit down

2:02.3

at a picnic table with Hunter Biden. Hey, crackdown. We got a little crackdown going on over here.

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