WASHINGTON — President Trump praised DC’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday for cooperating together with his administration’s deployment of Nationwide Guard troops to crack down on crime — earlier than calling on blue-state governors to let him do the identical.
“Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has turn out to be very talked-about as a result of she labored with me and my nice folks in bringing CRIME right down to nearly NOTHING in D.C.,” Trump posted on his Reality Social Monday.
“Her statements and actions have been constructive, as an alternative of others like [Illinois Gov. JB] Pritzker, [Maryland Gov.] Wes Moore, [California Gov. Gavin] Newscum [Newsom], and the 5% approval rated Mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time attempting to justify violent Crime, as an alternative of working with us to fully ELIMINATE it, which now we have executed in Washington, D.C., NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE,” he added.
Trump additionally claimed Bowser’s reputation had already surged 25 share factors since agreeing to associate beginning Aug. 11 with federal legislation enforcement in tackling the town’s crime, although it’s unclear what polling knowledge the president cited.
“We tremendously respect the surge of officers that improve what MPD has been in a position to do on this metropolis,” Bowser mentioned final Wednesday at a press convention.
She then revealed there had been an 87% drop in carjackings and a forty five% lower in all violent crime.
“We all know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when murder or theft go down, neighborhoods really feel safer and are safer,” the mayor mentioned.
A Washington Put up-George Mason College Schar Faculty survey in Might confirmed her at 53% job approval.
“Wouldn’t or not it’s good to say that about Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and even the Crime Drenched Metropolis of Baltimore???” he mentioned of Bowser’s supposedly upward-trending job efficiency ranking. “It could actually occur, and it will possibly occur FAST! Work with us!!!”
Final week, the president indicated he would deploy Nationwide Guard troops to these cities if the governors of the encircling states requested that.
Trump instructed The Put up on Tuesday that he would need New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to additionally agree that her state wanted the presence of Guard members earlier than OKing their deployment.
“I’d like to do it if she’d like. I get together with Kathy. If she’d like to do this, I might do it,” Trump mentioned in a cupboard assembly. “I need to make this like, pleasant.”
Nationwide Guard troops haven’t been arresting folks in DC, however have been patrolling — at instances with weapons — and aiding native legislation enforcement efforts within the nation’s capital by the Metropolitan Police Division in addition to by federal companions just like the FBI and US Park Police.
A complete of 1,599 arrests have been made in DC for the reason that begin of Trump’s crime crackdown final month, Lawyer Common Pam Bondi revealed Monday.
As of Sept. 1, 165 unlawful weapons have additionally been seized and brought off the streets.
“Congratulations to Mayor Muriel Bowser, however don’t go Woke on us. D.C. is a GIANT VICTORY that by no means has to finish!!!” Trump added in his prolonged publish.
The cooperation with Bowser got here after the Trump administration efficiently dismantled Black Lives Matter Plaza simply north of the White Home in March.
