Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff at the White House, is ordering his detractors to shut up.
Miller visited Union Station on Wednesday to speak with National Guard members based at the transportation hub, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The trip coincided with protests in the streets of Washington, D.C., against President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of a federal takeover of the police force and the National Guard’s presence in the city.
1% of this city has been terrorizing 99% of this city for far too long. At a press conference held inside the station, Miller declared, “We will not allow the communists to destroy a great American city, let alone the nation’s capital.”
Additionally, Miller asserted that the demonstrators have no ties or roots in the community.
It is they who have been promoting the 1%. The drug traffickers, the murderers, the rapists, and the criminals. Miller added, “And I’m glad they’re here today because I’m going to leave here with Pete and the vice president, and we’re going to add thousands more resources to this city because of them.”
He continued by saying that the majority of the residents of Washington, D.C., are Black, and that we would disregard these foolish white hippies who should all go home and rest since they are all over 90 years old. Instead, we will resume our work of defending the American people and the residents of Washington, D.C.
Miller: Since they are all over 90 years old, we will disregard these foolish white hippies who should all go home and rest.795kXeQZEj pic.twitter.com
In related comments, Vance capitalized on a protester’s phrase, “Let’s free D.C. from lawlessness.”
We have a group of elderly, mostly white folks who have never experienced danger in their life, and they are out there protesting the laws that protect people, which is kind of strange, Vance added.
Vance advised reporters to look about and speak with locals, pointing out that D.C. had a horrible crime problem. Democratic lawmakers and critics have argued that Trump has continued to inflate the issue at hand, despite the White House boasting of more than 550 arrests since August 7, when the Trump administration started stepping up the presence of federal law enforcement. Numerous people, including municipal authorities, have cited information from the website of the Metropolitan Police Department.
According to police data, there has been a 27% decrease in violent crime overall as of Tuesday when compared to the same period last year. All city crime categories, including homicide, robbery, sex abuse, and burglary, have decreased, according to the agency. Early in January, federal officials announced that, with homicides hitting their highest level since the mid-1990s, violent crime overall for 2024 had fallen to a 30-year low, down 35% from 2023.
The Justice Department has begun an investigation into whether the police falsified data to make crime rates appear lower, according to a number of sites on Tuesday.
In a social media post earlier this week, Trump alluded to an inquiry.
He posted on Truth Social that D.C. provided Fake Crime figures to give the impression that people were safe. They are being seriously investigated for doing this, which is a very bad and hazardous thing to do!
Trump also asserted in a different post that D.C. had improved hourly and is now the safest. In spite of his assertions, the majority of city dwellers have voiced their displeasure of the efforts to combat crime.
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