Former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. legal professional for the District of Columbia, warned Monday that President Donald Trump’s deployment of U.S. troops in Washington, D.C., is “only the start” of his federal takeover of the nation’s capital.
Pirro returned to Fox Information that night to defend this in an interview with Sean Hannity.
“President Trump has rightfully declared an emergency disaster of crime and deployed the Nationwide Guard, the ATF, the DEA, the FBI, in order that criminals know now that we see them,” she said Monday. “We’re watching them and we’re gonna make them accountable.”
“However make no mistake, Sean, that is only the start,” Pirro warned.
Trump confirmed throughout his press convention Monday that the federal authorities will seize management of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Division. Pirro, a former decide and tv character, was present when he cited supposedly skyrocketing crime within the metropolis.
His claims clashed with figures from the police division itself, nevertheless, which launched a year-to-date comparison Friday to the identical interval final 12 months and confirmed violent crime — together with homicides, robberies and assaults — had plummeted by 26%.
“This 12 months, crime isn’t simply down from 2023,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser famous additional Monday throughout a press conference of her personal. “It’s additionally down from 2019, earlier than the pandemic. And we’re at a 30-year violent crime low.”
Pirro made no point out of those figures Monday whereas praising Trump for his crackdown.
“And make no mistake, this president has a constitutional proper to guard the individuals on this district and to make us secure,” she instructed Hannity. “And till he got here alongside, it was simply going alongside and perhaps it received a bit higher this 12 months, but it surely’s by no means ok.”
“However we are actually within the strategy of bringing to the eye of law-abiding residents, not simply in D.C., however all through the nation, that we’re not going to tolerate crime that’s uncontrolled within the nation’s capital,” Pirro later added.
Trump certainly confirmed Monday that different cities comparable to New York could be next. When requested throughout his personal Fox Information interview Monday how lengthy this D.C. crackdown, particularly, would possibly final, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth replied merely, “Who is aware of?”
