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I'm announcing *** historic action to Rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor. And worse This is Liberation Day in DC and we're gonna take our capital back. We're taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is? And placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough. And they know what's happening. They've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety. In Washington DC and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. And you people are victims of it too, you know, you're reporters and I understand *** lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but you don't want to get, uh, you don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened and so you can be any anything you want but you want to have safety in the streets you want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live. And feel safe and go into *** store to buy *** newspaper or buy something. And you don't have that now. The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth, much higher. This is much higher. The number of car thefts has doubled over the past 5 years and the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate, probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years. Can't be worse. Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and homeless people. And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're not going to take it. Just like we did, uh, on our southern border, nobody comes to our southern border. 3 months in *** row we had 0. I don't know if that's right, but the people that do the work, uh, it's *** very liberal group of people actually, and they actually said 0 for the last 3 months. Nobody thought *** thing like that was possible. And uh you know, when you say take *** look at numbers, I just saw some, some charts. These are different cities throughout the world. Bread is OK, the red is *** place called Washington DC. Look at these. Baghdad is we doubled up on Baghdad. Panama City Brasilia, San Jose, Costa Rica, Bogota, Colombia, heavy drugs. Mexico City I mentioned Lima, Peru. All double and triple what they are, so do you want to live in places like that? I don't think so. I don't think so, and I think the people in this room. If you wrote correctly, you'd see, look at the kind of numbers we have DC. 41 per 100,000 number one. That we can find anywhere in the world. Other cities are pretty bad, but they're not as bad as that. Is that where you want to live, the reporters of the world. Juvenile offenders and crimes against persons, as they say. It's getting worse. Not getting better, it's getting worse. And we had *** recent indication. Uh, there was *** story about *** man who was That just left. He quit because he was asked to do phony numbers on crime, and we're going to look into that. I think Pam is going to be looking into that, uh, but, uh, he was asked by the city, I guess that we don't want to show the real numbers. Let me do numbers so it looks like it's going down, not going down. And under Biden it was *** disaster and nobody did anything about it. We're going to do things about it like you wouldn't believe. Every American has *** constitutional right to be able to access and petition their government in safety, and countless federal officials and employees likewise have the right to carry out their jobs in peace without being shot, as you know, I lost *** very good person. *** while ago was shot waiting for his wife. He was in the car. They robbed this car. They shot him. They killed him like it was nothing to it. She was walking to the car. She was, it's *** horror show. This issue directly impacts the functioning of the federal government and is *** threat to America, really it's *** threat to our country. We have other cities also that are bad, very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has *** problem, and then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don't even mention that anymore. They're so, they're so far gone. We're not going to let it happen. We're not going to lose our cities over this. And this will go further. We're starting very strongly with DC and we're gonna clean it up real quick, very quickly, as they say. Days ago, *** former member of the Doge staff was savagely beaten by *** band of roving thugs after defending *** young woman from an attempted carjacking. He was left dripping in blood. He thought he was dead with *** broken nose and concussion. Can't believe that he's alive. He can't believe it. In June, *** 21 year old congressional intern was tragically killed after being hit by *** stray bullet in *** drive-by shooting. *** former Trump administration official named Mike Gill, fantastic person, was murdered last year in cold blood in *** carjacking blocks away from. The White House We all knew him, great person. Waiting for his wife as she was walking to the car. The Democrat congressman was also carjacked at gunpoint not far from the Capitol. And in 2023, an aide to Senator Rand Paul was stabbed in the chest and Head by *** demented lunatic as he walked down the street just absolutely for no reason. Horrifically last July 4th weekend, *** 3 year old girl was shot in the head and killed while sitting in *** car. Near the capital It's becoming *** situation of complete and total lawlessness, and we're getting rid of the slums too. We have slums here, we're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct. You'll say, oh, so terrible. No, we're getting rid of the slums where they live. Caravans of mass youth rampaged through city streets at Uh, all times of the day. ATVs, motorbikes. They travel pretty well. Entire neighborhoods are now under emergency curfews. Just this past weekend, gunfire went through, and you saw that the Navy yard. I saw it this morning. I saw. That they fought back against us see they fight back. Until you knock the hell out of them because it's the only language they understand, but they fought back against law enforcement last night. And they're not going to be fighting back long because I've instructed them and Uh, told them whatever happens, you know, they love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform. They're standing and they're screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face and I said, you tell them you spit and we hit. And they get hit real hard. It's *** disgusting thing. I've watched that for years, 3 or 4 years. I've watched them. The police are and they're told don't do anything under any search of this, and you can see they want to get at it. And they're standing there and people are spitting in their face and they're not allowed to do anything, but now they are allowed to do whatever the hell they want. This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city's local leadership, the radical left city council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every place in the country where you have no cash bail is *** disaster. That's what started the problem in New York, and they don't change it. They don't want to change it. That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it, but that was the one thing that's central, no cash bail. Some murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out. Uh, we're gonna end that in Chicago. We're gonna change the statute. I spoke with, uh, Pam and Todd and everybody. We're gonna change the statute and I'm gonna have to get the Republicans to vote because the Democrats are weak on crime. Totally we can't cry. They don't know why They want to stop because they get mugged too. But we're going to change no cash bail. We're going to change the statute and get rid of some of the other things, and we'll count on the Republicans in Congress and Senate to vote. We have the majority, so we'll vote. We don't have *** big majority, but we've gotten everything, including the great big beautiful bill, got that done, and that's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to people in this country. They're starting to figure it out how good it is. Biggest tax cut in history, so many things. But we'll be able to get that done so Todd, if you and Pam can draw up things working with the people, uh, we will, I'll get it passed. We'll get it passed with the Republicans probably won't get, think of this. Probably won't get one Democrat vote because they have no idea what they're doing. That's why they want men playing in women's sports. That's what they, why they want transgender for everybody, everybody transgender. Uh, and they, they've just got walloped in an election in *** landslide, and they haven't changed one thing. I saw the other day that certain gentlemen who were very well known politician, Democrat, was fighting like hell that men should be allowed to play in women's sport. They just don't get it. They said it's an 80/20 issue and I think it's *** 97 to 3 issue, and I don't know who the three are. I've never heard. Anybody come. Nobody's ever come up to me, sir, you have to let men play in women's sports. You have to do it, sir. Nobody's ever approached me. I don't know where this issue even comes from. Never seen anything like it. But they turned our nation's capital into *** sanctuary jurisdiction. That's the other thing we have to get rid of sanctuary cities as quickly as possible. We're going to do it too. We have to. Because it's sanctuary for criminals, releasing illegal alien gang members onto the streets in 2022, nearly 70% of criminals arrested in Washington. Went unprosecuted. That's not going to happen with the group we have standing aside and standing behind me. And at the Metropolitan Police Department, it's now reached *** small number relatively compared to what it was, but it's thousands of people, you know, we have thousands of police. I was told today, sir, they want more police. I heard *** number 3500 police. That's *** lot of police, 3500. I thought they're gonna say we only have 30 policemen or women. He said, we have 3500. We need more. You don't need more. That's so many. I've never heard, that's like an army. How could you need more than 3000? It just happened 2 minutes ago. Sir, they've requested more. Police, uh, what do they have? About 3500. I said 3500. This is not *** big area. It's ridiculous. What you need is rules and regulations, and you need the right people to implement them and we have the right people here that I can tell you. Look at the border. Biden said there's nothing you can do. Kamala was the border czar. She never called one of the border patrol agents who are great. ISS is great, never spoke to anybody, never went there. But she was the border czar. And everybody said it was impossible to fix. I fixed it in 3 months. No, really, I fixed it the first week, but really fixed it over the last couple of months and I mean literally to *** point where as I said, 0 illegals entering our country in the last. 90 days, pretty amazing. It's time for dramatic action. We're going to do the same thing over here. It's going to be *** very safe city very soon. We're not looking to just take years. Because *** lot of people die in years, and we've got incredible people in this country, except we have to allow them to do their job. And that uh we will deliver like uh nobody's ever delivered before. I actually think it's easy, you know, if you're competent, it's easy. If you're incompetent, it's impossible. But I'm very competent. Last week my administrationsur surged 500 federal agents into the district, including from the FBI, ATF, DEA, Park Police, the US Marshal Service, the Secret Service, and the Department of Homeland Security, you know, *** lot of nations. They don't have anything like that. They got some, some police. And they're rough police. They don't have *** DEA, ATF, FBI, park police, US Marshal Service, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security. They get Some police But they're rough police and they do their job, they don't have crime. We're not gonna have crime either. They made dozens of arrests, and that's what, uh, It's what starts to happen again. Cashless bail. Watch what we do with that. Today we're formally declaring *** public safety emergency. This is an emergency. This is *** tragic emergency. And it's embarrassing for me to be up here, you know, I'm gonna see Putin. I'm going to Russia on Friday. I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls. It's another part of it, by the way, because we're talking about safety, we're also talking about beautification. We're the most beautiful potentially capital in the world we always had. But people come from Iowa. They come from Indiana, they come and then they get mugged. Not gonna happen. Keep coming because within by the time you get your trip set, it's gonna be safe again and it's gonna be cleaned very quickly. We're gonna replace the medians that are falling down all over the roads. We're gonna replace the potholes. We're gonna put *** nice new coat of asphalt over the top. No we don't have to rip the road out and spend, uh, 7 years building *** new road because they cut. Everything that, because some designers said, well, we need *** quarter of an inch more turn for safety reasons. Uh, we're gonna do it right, we're gonna get it done quickly. Uh, so today we're Declaring public safety emergency in the District of Columbia and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's fantastic, is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment. And I'll be making the appropriate notifications to Congress and To the mayor, our new DEA administrator who's one of the top in the country, he better be Terry if you're not, I'm gonna get rid of you so fast. Terry Cole. Terry, thanks. Very good. We just, just got him high most highly recommended person. And you'll be designated as the interim federal commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Department, OK. And you run them tough. They're good. You have *** lot of good people. You have people that shouldn't be there. You also have people that shouldn't be there. They got in there because of woke, but you have *** lot of great police and those people are the ones that want to help you. This city will no longer be *** sanctuary for illegal alien criminals. We will have full, seamless integrated cooperation at all levels of law enforcement, and we'll deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence. You'll have more police. And you'll be so happy Because you're being safe when you walk down the street. You're gonna see police or you're gonna see FBI agents we're gonna have *** lot of agents on the street and you're gonna have *** lot of, uh, essentially military and, and we will bring in the military if it's needed, by the way, we're gonna have National Guard, but Pete Hegseth will tell you about it. We will bring in the military if needed. People say, oh, that's so terrible. He's going to bring in it's been, it's been many times over the years, uh. I don't think we'll need it. I think we've got so many great people, including the people that are in the police department with proper leadership. They'll immediately begin massive enforcement operations targeting known gangs, drug dealers and criminal networks to get them the hell off the street, maybe get them out of the country because *** lot of them came into our country illegally. They shouldn't have been allowed in. They come from Venezuela. They come from all over the world. We're gonna get them the hell out. They won't be here long. But some of these people, *** lot of them are homegrown criminals. And these are bad people, these are rough people, and this is just *** list of some of the people that were given to me today. That were criminals removed from the DC streets this weekend. They were rough, rough and tough. But we're rougher and tougher. Look at these people here. Nothing, you know, they're not gonna be your local school teacher. Look at this guy, he has killed people numerous times. They're not going to be an asset. They will never be an asset to society. I don't care. I know we all want to say, oh, they're going to be rehabbed, it's not going to be rehab.