Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appears eager to paint a rosy picture of his state and to downplay the severity of its crime problem. President Donald Trump simply isn’t buying what the Democrat is selling.
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FBI statistics show that Baltimore has ‘the fifth-most instances of violent crime on a per capita basis, [and the] fourth-highest murder rate.’
Despite complaints from Democrats and other leftists, the initiative has been tremendously successful. In the first week, D.C. saw a 19% drop in property crimes and a 17% drop in violent crimes when compared with the previous week. The city also enjoyed at least 10 days without a murder.
Trump indicated at the outset that he has a mind to similarly bring law and order to other crime-ridden cities, including Baltimore, a city of fewer than 570,000 people, which has a 1 rating on Neighborhood Scout’s crime index where 100 is safest. Trump’s threat of a life-saving federal intervention did not sit well with Moore.
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Moore suggested that Baltimore was “on track to have the lowest number of homicides” since the city began officially keeping crime statistics, then invited Trump to attend a “public safety walk” in September.
The Democratic governor followed up his letter with an interview on Sunday with CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” where he vowed not to authorize the Maryland National Guard to be utilized for Trump’s law and order initiative; characterized the deployment of the National Guard as “unconstitutional”; and claimed that Trump was both “living in this blissful ignorance” and engaging in “1980s scare tactics” on the crime issue.
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‘Stop talking and get to work, Wes.’
Despite signaling an aversion to federal troops in Baltimore and suggesting things have improved in his city, Mayor Scott has called for “additional resources for Baltimore’s ATF, DEA, and FBI field offices.”
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Trump punched back on Sunday, writing on Truth Social, “Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has asked, in a rather nasty and provocative tone, that I ‘walk the streets of Maryland’ with him. I assume he is talking about out of control, crime ridden, Baltimore? As President, I would much prefer that he clean up this Crime disaster before I go there for a ‘walk.'”
“Wes Moore’s record on Crime is a very bad one, unless he fudges his figures on crime like many of the other ‘Blue States’ are doing. But if Wes Moore needs help, like Gavin Newscum did in L.A., I will send in the ‘troops,’ which is being done in nearby DC, and quickly clean up the Crime,” continued Trump. “After only one week, there is NO CRIME AND NO MURDER IN DC! When it is like that in Baltimore, I will proudly ‘walk the streets’ with the failing, because of Crime, Governor of Maryland. P.S. Baltimore is ranked the 4th WORST CITY IN THE NATION IN CRIME & MURDER.”
“Stop talking and get to work, Wes. I’ll then see you on the streets!” added the president.
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