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Do Democrats as a party want crime to be high, want murders to continue to outpace national capitals around the

rest of the world. When you look at Washington, D.C., you compare it to London, you compare it to Paris,

you compare it to Mexico City, you compare it to Tokyo, you compare it to Beijing. Find me a country

with a large population and a developed economy, and I'll find you a country that's safer than Washington, with a capital that's safer than Washington, D.C.

It doesn't have to be this way.

But if you listen to Democrats, they seem to want it to be this way because they won't do the obvious things that would make things better in D.C.

Now, this brings me to the press conference that was just had a little while ago by the mayor of D.C.,

a mayor, Bowser, in which she was trying to lay out.

Of course, the whole Trump thing here, it's crazy what's going on.

Well, Trump actually is acting by federalizing

law enforcement in D.C. for a set period of time. He's acting completely within his authority.

D.C. is different than the powers that the president has in any other place when it comes to

effectively a police power situation. D.C., the Home Rule Act of 1973, makes it very clear that what Trump is doing here is completely

within the scope of his powers.

So Democrats can cry about this all day.

He's allowed to do this.

He's doing it.

But then we get to the narrative that is out there right now,

and what they're trying to say,

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