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Donald Trump: “The President ran on making this country safe again.”

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FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office

Published September 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 17:13

He is one of the best. Todd, say a few words, please. He is a great lawyer. Thank you, Mr. President. Look, I think it's been said for the past 15 minutes, The President ran on making this country safe again. And we do not make this country safe again unless we go into our cities where there's the most violent among us and go street by street and block by … (17:13–17:18)

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“In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate and the third highest murder rate of any city in the…”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 03:13-03:23
“A person is four times more likely to be murdered in Memphis, Tennessee today than in Mexico City.”
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“There were 249 murders, 420 rapes, 5,616 burglaries, and 12,522 violent assaults in just the last little while in 2024.”
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“They killed 300,000 people in our country last year, and we're not letting it happen anymore.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 31:30-31:37
“We have virtually no crime in D.C. right now, and we're going to keep it that way.”
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“We did send FBI in about four months ago to work, and it brought some of the numbers down.”
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“We also sent them into Chicago on a sort of a moderate basis, and we brought down crime a little bit in Chicago.”
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“The effort will include the National Guard as well as the FBI, ATF, DEA, ICE, Homeland Security investigations and the US Marshals.”
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“We essentially had the crime down to a very low rate in 12 days and within another 10 days after that, it was so incredible.”
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“We're going to make Memphis safe again.”
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“We've taken close to 1500 people out of D.C.”
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“These cities have been taken over for years and the last four years under Biden.”
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“I want to see the National Guard come in right away if that's what's necessary.”
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“There's a need for more boots on the ground.”
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“We have set the landscape for the interagency to come into Memphis and really make it safe permanently.”
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“A president should have stepped up long ago and saved these cities.”
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“The FBI for the last four or five months because they have brought down the numbers quite a bit.”
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“The United States Marshal Service leading. And in joining 22 other federal agencies.”
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“We spoke with over 30 of the local agencies, letting them know what to expect.”
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“We do not make this country safe again unless we go into our cities where there's the most violent among us.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 17:17-17:23
“Plan on delivering Memphis back to the citizens that are there to raise their families, to go to church, to be in their communities.”
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“Whether it takes two weeks or two years, that's what we're going to do.”
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“In Chicago, they're getting beat to hell, they're being shot. If you lose six or seven people die over a weekend, they consider that a…”
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“Antifa is terrible.”
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“I've been speaking to the attorney general about bringing RICO against some of the people that you've been reading about that have been…”
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“We got to save St. Louis, we got to save these cities.”
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“I think they said 38 people shot and 11 people dead.”
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“The FBI has done a very good job in particular in Memphis and Chicago. They burn down a little bit like 20% and 25%.”
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“We have proof. All you have to do is look at the cargo that was like it spattered all over the ocean. Big bags of cocaine and fentanyl all…”
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“There are literally no boats. This was a boat and we were surprised to see it. Now, what does that mean? That means there's no drugs coming…”
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“If they do cooperate, that's good. If they don't, it's not going to matter to us at all.”
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“I heard 87% is down. I said, really? Who are the 13%? Because it's more than that.”
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“Turning Point is it became a very big deal.”
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“I heard they had like 38,000.”
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“Freedom of speech means you can burn the American flag.”
FULL: Trump deploys National Guard to Memphis, takes questions from Oval Office | Uploaded September 15, 2025 | 39:45-39:48
“It really causes unrest and violence when they bury American flag.”
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“I wanted anybody burns the American flag, go to jail based on freedom of speech, goes to jail immediately.”
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“Actually they've been a very good ally.”
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“He won't be hitting Qatar.”
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“Hamas said they're going to use the 20 hostages as human shields.”
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“The radical left causes tremendous violence, and they seem to do it in a bigger way.”
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“The radical left really has caused a lot of problems for this country.”
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“A new thing that I've been seeing a lot of lately but never saw before is they're walking in with bricks and rocks.”
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“The FBI or the Border Patrol or ICE and. Or the police are grabbing them and taking them away.”
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“They start breaking up the concrete sidewalks and the granite curbs.”
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“We're going to make it really safe. This country is going to be safe.”
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