Trump Claims Washington, D.C. 'Is Maybe The Safest City In America Right Now' Due To National Guard

While speaking to reporters after signing an executive order, President Donald Trump spoke about the deployment of federal troops in Washington, D.C.

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00:00Okay, J.D., could I ask you, you gave a stat on murders here.

00:04What were the numbers?

00:05You said in a short period of time how many people were murdered?

00:08Local law enforcement told me, sir, that in the past 20 or 30 years,

00:11D.C. has averaged a murder every other day.

00:15That's, you know, 200 murders a year, 150, 250,

00:18but about every other day a person has been killed on the streets of Washington, D.C.

00:23We've been doing this for two weeks.

00:25Zero people killed.

00:26That's real lives saved that the media and, frankly,

00:29the entire Democratic Party should be saying,

00:31thank you for saving lives instead of attacking the President of the United States for doing so.

00:35You know, when the person, when a person, unfortunately,

00:39will probably happen at some point when a person's murdered in D.C.,

00:44it's going to be the biggest story maybe in history.

00:47Yes, sir.

00:47Somebody was murdered in D.C. Trump is failing.

00:51No, we're not failing. We have a safe city.

00:53This is maybe the safest city in America right now.

00:55That's how good it is.

00:57And it would be nice to be appreciated.

00:59These people, eventually, they're going to have to be appreciated for what they're doing,

01:02and they're going to have to be appreciated by the officials

01:04that are really happy when we go in

01:06because they've lost control of their place.