MSNBC host Joe Scarborough recommended that some liberal media figures blasting President Donald Trump's federal takeover of Washington, DC weren't being completely sincere about their issues over crime within the nation's capital, on Tuesday's “Morning Joe.”
Scarborough stated he discovered it “fascinating” that some reporters critically overlaying the Trump takeover have privately expressed issues about their very own security.
“That is fascinating,” Scarborough stated.
“I really heard from a reporter when this occurred, going, ‘Nicely, you already know, if he doesn't overreach, this might really be an excellent factor for high quality of life,' and so on, as a result of in DC proper now, I had this occur to my household and I had that, and so they go down the checklist. After which I noticed him tweet one thing fully totally different.”
Scarborough, who stated he's lived in DC for greater than three a long time, added that crime isn't as unhealthy because it was two or three years in the past, however it nonetheless was not a secure metropolis.
“It's definitely not as secure because the nation's capital ought to be.”
Trump introduced Monday that he would place the town's police division below direct federal management and deploy Nationwide Guard troops to “reestablish regulation, order and public security.”
Prime Democrats, together with Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, criticized the transfer as pointless, pointing to a reported decline in homicides.
Liberal media personalities corresponding to CNN's Dana Bash and NBC's Jonathan Allen argued that probably the most violent day in current DC historical past was January 6, 2021, throughout the Capitol riot.
Through the “Morning Joe” phase, MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend pushed again, saying she has lived in DC for the previous decade and believes rising crime fears are largely about notion, not actuality.
“The way in which I've heard DC being described this morning, is prefer it's a metropolis below siege. Prefer it's a harmful place, clutching your pearls, received to maintain your bag below your gown if you depart the home and that's simply not true,” she argued, whereas acknowledging “cases of juvenile crime.”
She argued that extra police on the streets wouldn't tackle the basis causes of juvenile crime and accused Trump of amplifying public fears.
“We have to rethink what makes cities secure in America,” she added.
Scarborough countered that even lifelong Democrats are frightened about their security in Washington. He learn a message from a liberal resident who refused to stroll exterior previous 8 p.m. and whose pals had been carjacked or shot at, calling it “a change from a decade in the past.”
“I assure you that's an individual that has by no means voted for a Republican of their life,” Scarborough stated.
“This isn't imagined. Folks you already know, that I do know, that they love, they and their pals don't really feel secure in Washington, DC.”
Throughout a press convention on Monday, Trump challenged liberal journalists to be sincere about crime issues within the metropolis.
“I perceive a whole lot of you are typically on the liberal facet, however you don't wish to get — you don't wish to get mugged and raped and shot and killed,” Trump stated.
“And also you all know folks and pals of yours that that occurred. And so that you might be something you need, however you wish to have security within the streets. You need to have the ability to depart your condo or your home the place you reside and really feel secure and go right into a retailer to purchase a newspaper or purchase one thing. And also you don't have that now.”
