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New York Post
17 minutes ago
- New York Post
Trump vows federal law to override state cash bill bans; Stefanik to author legislation
WASHINGTON — President Trump pledged Monday to push through federal legislation outlawing so-called 'no cash bail' policies in states and cities across the country — with upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) quickly telling The Post she will be writing the bill. 'Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,' Trump said at a White House press conference where he announced that he was taking temporary control of DC's police department. 'That's what started the problem in New York, and they don't change it. They don't want to change it. That's what started in Chicago.' New York state in 2019 barred judges from requiring bail for most crimes, including burglary and simple assault, leading to many high-profile instances of offenders quickly finding new victims upon their release — prompting Albany to make some changes to expand judges' authority to hold suspects. 3 President Trump said Monday he will seek to legislative the end of local rules against cash bail. Yuri Gripas – Pool via CNP / MEGA 'I will be leading legislation to end [Gov.] Kathy Hochul and New York's failed bail reform once and for all to save New York and save America,' Stefanik told The Post soon after Trump spoke. 'The radical, dangerous and insane criminals and illegals-first policies must end now. We need law and order that puts America first.' 3 Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post she will write the bill. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Trump floated potential additional measures against New York at his press conference, without going into details. 'Bad politicians started it, bad leadership started it, but that's one thing that's central, no cash bail,' Trump said. 'Somebody murders somebody and they're out on no cash bail before the day is out.' Trump vowed to force a bill through Congress, despite slim Republican majorities in the House and Senate, where 60 votes generally is needed to approve legislation. 'I'm going to have to get the Republicans to vote. Because the Democrats are weak on crime — totally weak on crime. They don't know why. They want it to stop because they get mugged too,' he said. 'We'll count on the Republicans in Congress and the Senate to vote. We have the majority, so we'll vote. We don't have a big majority but we've gotten everything, including the great big beautiful bill.' DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro praised the concept, but added Monday that she wanted to heap pressure on the District's Council to change other laws, including the city's Youth Rehabilitation Act, which allows judges to set aside the sentences of offenders 24 and younger. 3 US Attorney Jeanine Pirro of DC slammed the DC Council and bans on cash bail. Ron Sachs – CNP / MEGA Pirro, whose office uniquely prosecutes both federal and local crime, noted that gunman Javarry Peaks, 19, was sentenced to probation last month by DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Branch — despite being filmed shooting a fellow bus passenger in the chest. 'I convict someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on a public bus in the chest [with] intent to kill,' Pirro said. 'I convict him and you know what? The judge gives him probation, says you should go to college. We need to go after the DC Council and their absurd laws.'
The Hill
17 minutes ago
- The Hill
Buttigieg: Vance 'very smart' but 'not a very principled person'
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a recent podcast episode that Vice President Vance is 'very smart' but 'not a very principled person.' 'Trump said this week that JD Vance is his most likely heir apparent. You played JD Vance in debate prep with Tim Walz. What are your impressions of him and his seemingly inevitable candidacy in 2028?' Pod Save America's Jon Favreau asked Buttigieg on the Sunday episode of the podcast. 'Well, I think he's very intelligent. I think he's very smooth. I think he's very capable. That's why we — we definitely shouldn't — I know there's a temptation to make fun of him, and — but, you know, I can — I can do it with the best of them, sometimes when you see how he conducts himself out there,' Buttigieg responded. 'But let's be clear, we're talking about a very smart person, not a very principled person,' the former Biden Cabinet secretary added. "Let's be clear, we're talking about a very smart person, not a very principled person. It didn't take him many years to go from comparing Trump to Hitler—which he did—to saying that he ought to be the leader of the free world." Last Tuesday, President Trump said it was too quick to settle on a successor to be the Republican nominee in three years, but he acknowledged it would 'most likely' be his vice president. 'I think most likely, in all fairness,' Trump said when he was questioned if he would clear the field by supporting his vice president. 'So it's too early to talk about it, but certainly he's doing a great job, and he would be probably favored at this point,' the president also said. Buttigieg is seen as a probable contender for the 2028 presidential race among other notable Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. The Hill has reached out to Vance's office for comment.
USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
President, mayor, police chief, social worker. Trump is a man of many hats
Alongside his Washington, D.C. takeover of local law enforcement, President Trump also vows to clear away the homeless and pave the potholes. Donald Trump's expansive view of his powers is no longer limited to those traditionally exercised by a president. With his decision to take control of D.C. police and deploy national guardsmen and FBI agents on the city's streets − citing a spree of lawlessness that isn't supported by federal crime data − the president took charge of tasks typically in the domain of the mayor and the police chief. There was more. He also vowed to clear out the homeless from encampments (though short on details about where they would go, exactly) as well as pave the streets and fill the potholes. He is a hands-on leader, he boasted, even when it comes to White House decor and his plans to build a huge ballroom and install new marble floors. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse," he said at the beginning of a freewheeling news conference that stretched for more than an hour. "This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we're going to take our capital back." Why now? That wasn't entirely clear, especially at a time crime in Washington is on a significant slide. In January, The U.S. attorney's office announced that violent crime in Washington in 2024 was at a 30-year low, down 35% from 2023. So far this year, DC's Metropolitan Police Department said that as of Aug. 10, violent crime has dropped another 26%. Except for a spike during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 and 2023, violent crime in the District of Columbia has been steadily declining since 2012. Trump was clearly unconvinced, depicting a dystopian landscape outside the White House gates. "Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people," he said. He mentioned in particular the beating of a former staffer from the Department on Governmental Efficiency during an attempted carjacking. He suggested the reporters in the room, many of whom live in Washington, should be grateful that he was moving to protect them. Can Trump do that? Yes. Should he? Trump declared a public safety emergency in Washington − seizing control of the police department and sending 800 national guardsmen on the streets and another 120 FBI agents on night patrols. While critics argued that it wasn't necessary or wise to take these steps, they generally didn't argue that he lacked the power to do them. "He's doing this because he can," city councilman Charles Allen said. To be clear, standing on the side of law-and-order doesn't usually require a profile in courage. It has been a Republican trope since Richard Nixon and before. In recent years, it has been stoked by demands by Democrats and others for social-justice reforms in the wake of notorious cases of police brutality. Trump depicted crime as a failure of Democratic leaders and a consequence of their policies. He warned other Democratic enclaves − New York, Chicago, Los Angeles − that he just might consider taking similar steps to impose order on their streets. What particularly irked his fiercest critics was the contrast with Trump's action, or his lack of it, during what was undeniably a law-enforcement crisis in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, disrupting the ceremonial count of Electoral College ballots in an election he had lost and sending senators and representatives scrambling for safety. Then, Trump didn't deploy the National Guard. Afterwards, more than 1,575 people were charged with crimes. At least 600 were charged with the felony of assaulting or impeding law enforcement. Trump himself was also indicted on criminal charges for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election that he lost – a prosecution he managed to avoid facing trial on by winning the presidency again. On the first day of his second term, Trump granted a blanket clemency to the Jan. 6 defendants. Durban: 'Political theater' to draw attention from Jeffrey Epstein This time, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin called Trump's actions "political theater" and "a typical move by this president to create chaos and uncertainty, and to draw the attention from other issues like Jeffrey Epstein." Trump was "trying to change the subject," said Durbin, one of the top Democrats who oversees the Justice Department. Trump did answer questions from reporters about the traditional business of the presidency. He discussed his vision of a "land swap" he might negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their scheduled meeting on Aug. 15 in Alaska to end the war in Ukraine. He said he would soon decide whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, and he teased the ongoing trade negotiations with China. Then, yes, there was Epstein, whose case had broken back into the headlines just before Trump walked out into the White House briefing room. A federal judge denied the Trump administration's request to release testimony in the grand jury that indicted Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's former partner who is serving her own 20-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges. The request was part of the tamp down swirling controversy among Trump's MAGA base about whether powerful people were being protected from disclosure. As he left the briefing room, the president ignored shouted questions about the case − though like the new crackdown on crime, that topic isn't likely to go away anytime soon.
