DC police share photo of suspected 'Big Balls' attacker who beat up DOGE worker
Coristine, 19, was part of Elon Musk 's army of nerds as it briefly caused havoc in the public service until he quit in June after his boss's falling out with Donald Trump.
Trump appears to still have a soft spot for the teenage techie as he shared a photo of Coristine bloodied and bruised after the attack last week.
He claimed Coristine was 'very badly hurt' and 'beat up by a bunch of thugs in DC ' and on Sunday used it as a pretense to send the National Guard to the capital.
'We just almost lost a young man, beautiful, handsome guy that got the hell knocked out of him the night before last. I'm going to call him now,' he added.
DC Metro Police arrested a boy and a girl, both 15, minutes after the unarmed carjacking attempt and later released two photos of a third suspect.
The trio allegedly approached Coristine and someone he was with as they stood next to the car about 3am on August 3, and demanded the keys.
Coristine was the only one attacked until cops arrived and the carjackers fled into the night and the two teens, both from Hyattsville, Maryland, were arrested.
The third suspect appeared to be a black man with short black hair wearing a surgical mask pulled down to his chin and a grey shirt.
Trump used the attack on Coristine to claim DC was a violent city, despite it being nowhere near the top of the country's cities with the highest crime rates.
Crime in DC is down seven percent this year with robberies dropping 28 percent and overall violent crime falling 26 percent.
Despite this, Trump claimed young people were 'randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens' because they knew they would get released as minors.
He described crime in DC, as 'totally out of control,' especially among 'youths,' who were just 14, 15 and 16 years old.
'Either they are going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection or we're going to have to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to be run,' he said.
Trump likened his plans for DC as similar to his administration's crackdown against immigration at the southern border.
'I'm going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before,' he said while pledging to 'immediately clear out the city's homeless population and take swift action against crime'.
'It's all going to happen very fast, just like the border.'
Trump was expected to announce the deployment during a White House press conference on Monday as he pushes for a federal takeover of the city.
He already deployed 120 FBI agents to work alongside DC police and other federal law enforcement officers working the night shift in the city.
Photos taken late on Sunday night showed several federal authorities working in coordination with one another including the FBI and Border Patrol.
In one instance, a man was detained by police along U Street in the capital as FBI and Border Patrol agents assisted.
A short distance away Drug Enforcement Agency agents could also be seen standing guard in Dupont Circle.
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