President Donald Trump seemed to complain on Monday that crime had not been totally eradicated in Washington, D.C., because local statistics continued to include domestic disturbances and incidents of domestic violence.
During an extended speech at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Trump claimed that his deployment of federal troops as law enforcement to the city had turned D.C. from “the worst, the most violent city” into “a totally safe zone.”
“There’s no crime. They said crime is down 87 percent — no, no, no, it’s more than 87 percent, [it’s] virtually nothing,” Trump said. “Much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime, you know — they’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, ‘This was a crime, see,’ so now I can’t claim 100 percent. But we are a safe city.”
Domestic abuse is absolutely a crime, and Washington, D.C., was not the most dangerous city in the country before Trump decided to take advantage of its unique relationship to the federal government in order to orchestrate his law and order pageant.
The president himself has been accused of harassment, abuse, and sexual assault by several women. Historically, the president has given little credence to the testimony of women alleging abuse, and it’s no surprise that he resents that domestic altercations are included in crime statistics.
On Monday, a federal appeals court decided to uphold an $83 million defamation judgment against Trump that was awarded to author E. Jean Carroll in January of last year. In 2019, Carroll alleged that the former president sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of New York’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the ‘90s.
Trump was separately found liable for defamation and sexually abusing Carroll in a 2023 case. Last year the president was also convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his 2016 hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. If the president is worried about getting the crime stats in D.C. down to zero, he should consider leaving the city.
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