U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro pushed back against former President Barack Obama on “Fox News Sunday” for attacking President Donald Trump‘s crackdown on Washington, D.C.’s crime crisis.
“President Obama to come out and make a comment on Chicago, a city that is his city, that has been one of the most violent cities in America, that has shootings and killings frequently since I can remember,” Pirro said.
“Every weekend there’s shootings in Chicago. What are they doing about it? What they’re doing is they’re turning to politics and they’re turning to anything anti-Trump, as opposed to saying, ‘We want to join the president in his effort to protect the American people. We recognize and applaud President Trump for what he’s doing.'”
Since federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department in the nation’s capital, Trump has suggested deploying the National Guard in other major cities, such as Chicago, to lower the crime rate.
“Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday. “And [Gov.] JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming!”
The former Fox News host stated that Trump is working to protect the American people instead of putting “the liberties of all Americans at risk,” as Democrat leaders, such as Obama claimed on X.
“You speak to any of the crime victims that I speak to,” Pirro continued, “any of the parents of murdered kids and teenagers, then you’ll get a sense of how disappointed people are in these leaders who’d rather play politics.”
“And when Muriel Bowser, the Democrat mayor of DC, can say violent crime is down by 50% because of this surge, you want to criticize that? You want to say they don’t deserve to come in and protect our people? We want our people to be victims of violent crime and we don’t care about it? Shame on them!” Pirro ended.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser admitted on Wednesday that the federal surge in the nation’s capital has had a great impact on reducing crime.
“This is what we think in just a couple of weeks of experience has worked: having more federal law enforcement officers on the street,” Bowser said. “We think having more stops that got to illegal guns has helped. We think that there is more accountability in the system, or at least perceived accountability in the system, that is driving down illegal behavior.”