Before I came into office, they couldn't do that. They were. They were getting badly hurt in many cases and beyond hurt, killed. So we were losing people. We were losing, on average, a person a week. Can you believe it? More. And now we haven't lost anybody in a long time. I consider the two people that got so badly hurt, the National Guard, that's a different scene. That was terrorism. That was terrorism and probably terrorism. (34:30–34:38)
CLAIM
Asserts that prior to his administration, Washington, D.C. was losing a person a week to violence, which has since stopped.
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