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Donald Trump: “We've had virtually no crime.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Attends the State Department Kennedy Center Honors Medal Presentation Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 15:20

It was a horror show when I came here a year and a half ago, this city was so dangerous. A year ago it was so dangerous. We've been there 10 months and now we're setting records for safety. We've had virtually no crime. We had terrorism two weeks ago, a week and a half ago, horrible terrorism. But it sounds like we were doing so well that the terrorists felt they didn't want to see us do very well. (15:20–15:23)

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Asserts that there has been virtually no crime in Washington, D.C.

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