'Many Of You Are Corrupt': Trump Insults Reporters To Their Faces While Bragging About DC Crackdown

In the Oval Office, President Trump attacked reporters while touting his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C.

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00:00Washington was the most dangerous place in this country and now you know what it's probably the

00:06safest place in our country everyone's starting to come here the restaurants now you can't get

00:10in many of them closed because they couldn't they couldn't open with crime everybody before me is

00:15happy what I'm doing most of you won't say that because you're radical left the newspapers are

00:21so dishonest the press is totally dishonest but that's all right we've gotten used to it

00:25and we wanted a landslide so they obviously lost their power I mean it's impossible to imagine

00:29that when you get 97 percent negative stories purposely negative stories even though you've

00:35done 97 positive things that they could that you could win an election in a landslide winning all

00:42seven think of it all seven swing states winning by the popular vote by millions of votes we had a

00:50fantastic the best is your districts out of uh 3 000 districts I guess we won 3 500 we won

00:592 750 and they won 500 and that's to me the best of all and we had tremendous in every way the

01:08election and it's hard to believe you can do that when you have a corrupt media but you are many of

01:14you are corrupt and it's nothing we can do about it but we keep winning and we're going to keep winning

01:19and this whole story on crime is incredible that the democrats wouldn't be with us

01:24so the mayor of chicago I watched him this morning he said trump doesn't know what he's talking about he

01:29only apprehended nine people well number one that's false it's literally it's thousands who get into

01:37that but more importantly than anything we took guns away we have some of the worst career professionals

01:44out of the country already they've been taken out of the country and some are in solid confinement

01:49because these were killers we arrested some very bad people and in the last 11 days again I hate to say

01:55it because it sounds so ridiculous but in the last 11 days we've had no murders and that's the first time

02:01that's taken place in uh years actually years we always have a murder a week they call it a murder a

02:08week you come here from Iowa you come here from Indiana you come here from Idaho because you're so proud of

02:14your country you love your country and then you get murdered your son gets murdered your daughter

02:18gets murdered you get murdered see the media you get murdered many of you have been mugged in

02:23washington you just don't want to talk about it and I know that every time I do this with you you

02:29almost everything but every time I do this with you you people are saying to yourselves he's right

02:34he's right and then you write a negative story but we are doing an incredible job the people behind

02:39me are amazing uh we're working very well with the washington police as you know the dc national

02:46guard is unbelievable we're also getting tremendous help from secret service and uh we are at a point

02:55where washington is booming again people are pouring in like we haven't seen for years nobody wanted to

03:01come here they didn't want to come here and and get murdered I have a friend of mine who

03:05has a very successful son and I said where is your son uh going to be this weekend he said he's going

03:12to washington with his friends I said really yeah he's wanted to do it for four years but he couldn't

03:16do it because it was so unsafe and he's a tough kid too it's so unsafe and he ended up staying and

03:23staying three nights going out to restaurants all three nights he said it was so beautiful so peaceful

03:27because all the criminals are either arrested or they're hiding and we're finding the ones that are

03:31hiding so I want to thank Pam Bondi I want to thank our vice president I want to thank everybody standing

03:37behind me because they are really uh gaddy you've been unbelievable by the way uh they have done an

03:45unbelievable job they're working 24 hours a day and washington dc is now in great shape