Results: Trump’s D.C. – Night One
Kevin McCullough
Washington, D.C., hasn’t been “the safest city in America” in a long time. For years, the nation’s capital has been drowning in an unholy mix of rising murders, open-air drug markets, roving carjackers, and a homelessness crisis that city leaders somehow decided to treat as a permanent fixture instead of a solvable problem. Residents have grown used to it—grimly. Businesses have factored it into their loss projections. Tourists have learned to keep one hand on their phones and the other on their wallets.
Then, in one night, it all changed.
President Donald J. Trump ordered the National Guard into D.C., backed by federal law enforcement and police support from surrounding jurisdictions. The mission was simple: stop the crime wave that city leaders had neither the will nor the backbone to confront. By sunrise, the results were staggering—23 arrests. Illegal guns seized. Drugs confiscated. Violent offenders pulled off the street. And if Trump hadn’t acted? Every single one of those criminals would still be out there this morning, prowling neighborhoods, menacing families, and thumbing their noses at the law.
This was not some feel-good “community outreach” night where cops hand out coffee and donuts. It was targeted law enforcement against a target-rich environment. And it worked.
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