AG Pam Bondi suggests Trump's crime crackdown in DC will help Latino residents
President Donald Trump s order to crack down on crime in the nation s capital is crystal clear U S Attorney General Pam Bondi notified Fox Noticias host Rachel Campos-Duffy in an sole interview Wednesday I don't have to tell you about the violent crime that we're seeing every day Bondi stated Staffers are shot walking out Drive-bys are happening in the nation's capital And no more it's going to stop RADICAL DC ADMINISTRATORS TREATED OFFICERS LIKE CRAP POLICE LEADER SAYS ATTACKS THAT LED TO TRUMP TAKEOVEROn Monday Trump federalized the capital city s Metropolitan Police Department MPD giving federal agencies supervisory power over the MPD That same day a man was fatally shot in Northwest D C marking the federal district s th homicide this year Bondi insisted Trump s order aims to help D C residents of all ethnicities including Latinos who comprise over of D C s population President Trump wants to make Washington D C our nation's capital safe for all of us for Latinos for all of us who live here Bondi commented I BACKING TRUMP TAKING CONTROL OF DC POLICE THE CONSTITUTION IS ON HIS SIDESafety is not the president s only goal the attorney general added Trump also wants to make the capital city clean and beautiful again All of these buildings are in disarray she lamented We want families to be able to come here and go to our museums which are free Go to the Smithsonian go to the National Gallery go to the zoo While Liberation Day critics cite MPD statistics to argue D C s crime is at a -year low the department suspended one of its police commanders in May for allegedly falsifying crime numbers in his reports WOMAN GUNNED DOWN IN 'SAFE' DC NEIGHBORHOOD AS TRUMP LAUNCHES FEDERAL POLICE TAKEOVERThis controversy is something U S Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro is looking into Bondi revealed It's so crucial Bondi stated You can't deflate statistics because people need to know people need to be safe and we have all of our federal agencies out there for the last four or five nights When a reporter similarly appealed Pirro about the published drop in crime rates Tuesday the former Fox News host did not hold back JEANINE PIRRO SHUTS DOWN REPORTERS QUESTIONING TRUMP S DC CRIME CRACKDOWN You tell the kid who was just beat the hell and back with a severe concussion and a broken nose Crime is down Pirro revealed No that falls on deaf ears and my ears are deaf to that and that's why I fight the fight Pirro was the latest member of the Trump administration to cite violent acts of crime that preceded Liberation Day including a former DOGE staffer being assaulted and a -year-old congressional intern being murdered in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting in June Pirro s comments came as media critics like Politico argued Trump wants to cast the city as dangerous with Democrats like Illinois Gov JB Pritzker going so far as to compare the president's federal takeover to Nazi Germany Watch Rachel Campos-Duffy's entire interview with Attorney General Bondi on Fox Noticias
