Because, understood, this is not hyperbole. They are rooting for the criminals. They do not want crime to go down. Because if crime goes down, It vindicates President Trump exercising his constitutional authority to concerning DC and exercising his authority as explicit statutory authority under the D.C. home Rule Act. The Democrats do not want that. No, they don't. And there's also another aspect of the story, and that is we now have the Justice Department that's investigating whether Washington D.C. police manipulated their crime data. (27:57–28:09)
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Asserts that crime reduction in D.C. supports Trump's use of constitutional and statutory authority.
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