Anyone who tells you crime in Washington D.C. is okay or going down is oblivious, lying or doesn’t live here. The big news here in Washington D.C. is the great move by President Trump to federalize the police in Washington D.C. and deploy the National Guard to deal with the out of control crime problem. Under the Home Rule law that governs Washington D.C., the President can take over the police department more or less for 30 days. He is the Commander in Chief of the National Guard and so can deploy it without having to ask anyone to deploy it in Washington D.C.

to address the out of control crime problem. And yes, it is out of control. Anyone who tells you crime in Washington D.C. is okay or going down is oblivious, lying or doesn’t live here. And I don’t think the oblivious category comprises anyone substantial. The lying category, as you know, is a large crowd and everyone else pretending that crime in D.C. is okay doesn’t live here. There isn’t a person who lives here who thinks crime is okay and that is sufficiently low to provide you the safety and security you deserve as a United States citizen, let alone what is necessary for a functioning capital of a major power such as the United States of America.

I mean if you can’t come into our nation’s capital as a federal employee, as a foreign diplomat, as a worker, someone doing business with Washington D.C., someone touring Washington D.C., a U.S. citizen coming to Washington D.C. to petition their government under the First Amendment because you’re in fear for your life and your personal safety, there’s something seriously wrong. And under our Constitution, Congress has the authority to run the city and they’ve basically delegated it to a corrupt local system that lets criminals run amok. The public safety is secondary to anything else they do, which is essentially promoting socialism and spending tax dollars.

It’s a nightmare here in the city. I’m a D.C. resident, I know it. In fact, I’m a D.C. as of today, I think I’m the only appointee to the D.C. government by President Trump. In addition to being Judicial Watch President, I’m a member of the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure, which is a body which oversees the ethics and the reappointment of superior court judges and District Court of Appeals judges for the District of Columbia. And those are the local, what you would think of as the local judges here. They’re appointed initially by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

But as Commissioner, I’ve been a commissioner for five years now, provided my views on election renomination or judicial renomination to President Biden and President Trump. But I’ve seen up close and personal the dysfunction of the courts, some of which aren’t the court’s fault, and the dysfunction of the D.C. government generally. I issued this tweet the other day, which described or summarized my concerns. I fully support President Trump’s decision to take control of D.C. police and deployed a National Guard to restore the rule of law in Washington, D.C. And then I go into this issue about me being on the Commission.

I have witnessed up close the dysfunction and failures of the D.C. courts, federal and local prosecutors, and local D.C. government in protecting the public safety. I mean, even our Commission can’t get its work done because of this dysfunction. I know directly, for instance, that my Commission is now unable to review a backlog of judicial complaints, these are ethics complaints, due to lack of previously promised support from the mayor’s office. So the mayor was promising us help, and we haven’t gotten what’s been promised. The judicial misconduct complaints may have serious ramifications for the public safety, but the Commission doesn’t have the staff or the budget to fully review them.

So can you imagine having complaints potentially about judges and that if the complaints pan out could lead to disclosure of judicial misconduct that has a public safety component? There could be those types of complaints in our system right now that our Commission can’t look at because we’re unable to because of lack of resources. I mean, that’s how out of control things are. And we’re just one aspect, an important one, of the judicial system and the criminal justice system here in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital is in crisis. There should be a top-to-bottom review of D.C.

governance. Adding federal control of the police and National Guard resources is certainly necessary, but won’t be sufficient to address the systemic, corrupt, and wasteful governance failures under home rule. President Trump took an important first step that I hope will ultimately lead to the rescue of my city. And it’s your city, too. It’s your nation’s capital. That’s why the capital isn’t part of a state. It’s why the capital is controlled by Congress because we all have an interest in the nation and a well-run center of culture, commerce, arts, and certainly government. And the left has zero interest in protecting that.

They only see the district as a potential 51st state, which is absurd on its face and unconstitutional, in my view, so they can get two more left-wing senators. And people like me, and frankly, there are many liberals who work in the city. They work in the commissions I’m talking about or on the courts. The judges aren’t Republican, for the most part. And I think I might disagree personally with some of their rulings in terms of being soft on crime. But I know they’ve got a lot of work to do, and they’re completely overwhelmed. In large measure, because the D.C.

Council is out of control and leftist, and it’s just your typical big city run by leftists. And we see this dysfunction in other cities, which, in my view, is intolerable for those cities as well. It’s doubly intolerable for here in Washington, D.C. I mean, what got the president’s personal attention? He’s been very focused on this since he’s come back because he was outraged when he saw how horrible D.C. was when he got here to begin with in the first term. This young man, his nickname is Big Balls, funny nickname. He was a member of the Doge team.

I think he still was working in some capacity for the federal government. And he nearly was beaten to death after he tried to rescue a woman who was being hassled or a carjacked or something. And there’s story after story of federal officials, congressional staff, members of Congress being victimized by crime. And crime, I don’t know if it’s, quote, going down, as Judge Pirro has noted, going down from what to what? From rampage to mob violence? I mean, who are they kidding? No one buys it. I mean, look at this video the other day. I mean, it’s so illustrative of why the city is dysfunctional, this leftist attacking the police the other day.

I have, this is my note is number 11, Sandwich Thrower. So that punk had reportedly a salami sandwich they threw at the police and he got arrested. He’s facing charges. And you know what? He works at the Justice Department or at least used to work at the Justice Department. Another reason why I don’t trust the Justice Department because that’s what the Justice Department is full of people like that, frankly, from my experience, willing to do activity like that. You know, and Trump had a brilliant insight into the impact this kind of chaos and anarchy has on visitors to the city.

And he talked about his dear old dad. Let’s go to number 16. He said, you know, my father always used to tell me, I had a wonderful father, very smart. And he used to say, son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don’t go in because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also. Same thing with the Capitol. If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty and they don’t respect us. So it’s a very good question. I mean, he’s always got the great insight. You know, my family was talking about that quote the other day, and the story was my grandmother simply refused to eat in restaurants.

Just refused to eat in them. And so his father was probably of my grandmother’s ilk when it came to the cleanliness of restaurants back in the day. But that’s true. It’s like the broken windows theory, right, that Rudy Giuliani famously implemented in cleaning up New York successfully. He said, you know, if all the windows are broken, it just undermines confidence in the public safety and invites more crime. Because it shows the rule of law, really, that civilization is kind of not running things. Civil society is broken down, and that’s true in Washington, D.C. I mean, my concern about Washington, D.C.

is that there are not enough National Guard, not enough federal resources. It’s a big city. You need a lot of people to be deployed. It’s not just in the high crime areas. It’s in the so-called low crime areas where low crime is still too high. There isn’t an area of the city that is immune from the criminal class that’s been allowed to run rampant. And now the D.C. government has sued Trump to try to restrict his ability to get the police under control and direct their law enforcement. I’m not sure what the courts are going to do there, so there’s always a fight.

But more power to President Trump, this home rule experiment needs to be reevaluated. Our nation’s capital is being destroyed from within for decades, and it needs to stop. It needs to stop. Thanks for watching. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and like our video down below. Thanks for watching. [tr:trw].

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