Donald Trump

Washington would be cleaned up 'very quick.'

We will bring in the military if it’s needed, by the way.

We will deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence, and you will have more police. And you will be so happy.

Other cities are hopefully watching this … and maybe they’ll self-clean up and maybe they’ll self-do this and get rid of the cashless bail thing and all the things that caused the problem.

We’re just going to see what happens. We’re going to have tremendous success with what we’re doing.

We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is.

If our capital is dirty our whole country is dirty, and they don’t respect us.

They’ve been dealing quite nicely. The relationship is very good with President Xi [Jinping] and myself.

We’ll see what happens.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I have just signed an Executive Order that will extend the Tariff Suspension on China for another 90 days. All other elements of the Agreement will remain the same.

I’m going to have to get the Republicans to vote. Because the Democrats are weak on crime — totally weak on crime.

Bad politicians started it.

Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster.

You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now.

I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.

Has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people.

I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls.

This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency, and it’s embarrassing for me to be up here.

If D.C. doesn't get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they're not going to get away with it anymore.

Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see.

The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be…

This is a Biden prosecution. It’s election interference at a level that nobody in this country has ever seen before.

I should be out campaigning now instead of sitting in a very cold courthouse all day long.