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Whoops: Trump's propaganda princess just put her foot in her mouth



As the Trump administration tells conflicting lies about the severity of crime
in Washington, emerging stories show that federal law enforcement in the city
is wasting its time on minor violations to justify the administration’s
falsehoods.

In an appearance Thursday morning on the pro-Trump “Fox & Friends” program,
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked by co-host Ainsley
Earhardt to address reports that crime is down in D.C.

“These numbers are absolutely correct, and we will continue to provide the
American public and the press with the numbers because we’re proud of these
efforts,” Leavitt replied.

But her rhetoric contradicts the narrative the Trump administration has been
pushing. President Donald Trump and top officials, like Stephen Miller, have
repeatedly argued that FBI data released in January showing a drop in crime is
inaccurate.




 



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Leavitt’s statement also deceptively argues that the Trump administration
deserves credit for the drop in crime. The statistics showing crime in D.C. at
a 30-year low reflect data collected in 2024, when former President Joe Biden
was in office. Unsurprisingly, Trump spent much of that year falsely accusing
Biden of neglecting crime, which he claimed had been increasing.

And what crime is the current federal deployment of law enforcement agents to
Washington dealing with?

According to a report from The Washington Post, federal agents are addressing
serious crime issues like seatbelt violations and broken taillights. A
checkpoint set up by agents of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday
night was greeted by locals chanting, “Go home, fascists.”




 



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More than 20 officers were deployed to the checkpoint in Northwest Washington
instead of dealing with serious crimes.

When the federal deployment has dealt with actual criminal activity, even that
has undermined the dark language from Team Trump. The man who threw a sandwich
at a federal agent in a recent viral video was charged with felony assault on
Wednesday.

“He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we
charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer,” Jeanine Pirro, the
U.S. attorney for D.C. and a former Fox News conspiracy theorist, said in a
video announcing the charges.

Former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa noted that if convicted, the sandwich
thrower could face more time in prison than the Jan. 6 attackers whom Trump
pardoned after taking office this year.

The federal deployment to Washington, despite the hype from Trump and his team
and their allies in right-wing media, has continued to descend into farce. But
the episode is serving to divert attention from Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal
and America’s budding economic weakness due to his tariff policies.



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