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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
MSNBC host AGREES with Trump that crime is appalling in DC after president enacted federal crackdown
An MSNBC contributor admitted that Washington DC residents are fed up with crime amid Democratic outcry after President Trump sent in the National Guard. Speaking on Wednesday's edition of 'Morning Joe', justice and legal affairs analyst Anthony Coley admitted that the matter was 'personal' as he lives in the city. 'Many people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly committed by juveniles in the city of Washington,' Coley said. 'People are frustrated that when they got to CVS to buy deodorant, that they have to get it from behind locked plexiglass, right? 'These are not just random anecdotes. What we see in Washington Post polling is that roughly half of residents view this as a serious problem or an extremely serious problem.' The admission from Coley came after the former Justice Department official penned an opinion piece that called the move 'unnecessary'. He said: 'Even as crime rates fall, many Washingtonians do not feel safe walking through Union Station, shopping on U Street or living in Navy Yard. 'To be clear: Trump's moves to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and activate the D.C. National Guard are unnecessary, wrong and unwarranted. 'But if officials in the district don't do something fast, they may give the president and Congress more reason to try to take over even more than they already have.' He expressed a similar stance on air, adding: 'want to be clear that this does not justify the disproportionate response that we are seeing from Donald Trump. 'It is a political stunt. He is exploiting people's fears. But to be frank, Democrats on the D.C. Council have created this political opening that allows him to do that.' Camo-clad troops with the National Guard started arrived into the capital at around 8 pm on Tuesday in a bid by the White House to curb violent crime. Military Humvees parked on the National Mall on Tuesday evening with officers standing close by. Other officers, who look to be from another agency, could be seen stopping and searching vehicles, as well as speaking with residents. FBI Director Kash Patel said on Tuesday that 23 people were arrested in the city with help from partners in a post to his X. An update by the bureau on Wednesday said a further 43 people were taken in by agencies on the ground in the city. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that around 850 officers and agents had fanned out across the city on Monday and made the arrests. The move by Trump was announced on Monday, the president it was to 'rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor'. The president also vowed to clear out camps of homeless people from Washington, DC parks and public lands Violent crime in DC is down 26 percent this year and in 2024 reached a 30-year low, with 190 homicides in 2024 compared to 274 in 2023, according to police statistics. 'The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, is a good person who has tried, but she has been given many chances, and the Crime Numbers get worse, and the City only gets dirtier and less attractive,' Trump said in a Sunday night Truth Social post.
Fox News
6 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
MSNBC contributor voices alarm on DC crime, says issue is 'personal' and many are frustrated
An MSNBC contributor admitted Wednesday that "many people" in Washington, D.C., are "frustrated with crime." "And I live in Washington," said the network's justice and legal affairs analyst Anthony Coley on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," adding, "This is personal for me." "Many people are frustrated with crime that we see, particularly committed by juveniles in the — in the city of Washington. People are frustrated, Willie, that they, when they go to CVS to buy deodorant, that they have to — from behind locked plexiglass, right?" he told co-host Willie Geist, referring to having to call an attendant to unlock products from cases in stores due to rampant shoplifting. "But the response here — and you know, let me say this, right, these are not just random anecdotes," Coley said. "What we see in Washington Post polling, among others, is that roughly half of D.C. residents, mostly half of D.C. residents, view this as a serious problem or an extremely serious problem." Many in the press have criticized President Donald Trump's Monday announcement that he would be taking control of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department and would deploy 800 National Guard troops to the nation's capital. On Tuesday, however, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough said that some in the liberal media were not being completely honest about their concerns regarding crime in D.C. Scarborough called out one reporter for publicly disparaging Trump's takeover while privately expressing fears about their own safety in the city. "This is interesting," Scarborough said. "I actually heard from a reporter when this happened, going, 'Well, you know, if he doesn't overreach, this could actually be a good thing for quality of life,' etc., because in D.C. right now, I had this happen to my family and I had that, and they go down the list. And then I saw him tweet something completely different." Since Aug. 7, law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., have arrested over 100 people. Later in the segment, however, Coley said that Trump's response was excessive. "Now, having said all of that, I want to be clear that this does not justify the disproportionate response that we are seeing from Donald Trump," Coley said. "It is a political stunt. He is exploiting people's fears. But to be frank, Democrats on the D.C. Council have created this political opening that allows him to do that." Coley added, "Now, I'm not naive, Willie. I suspect that even if juvenile crime wasn't a problem, Donald Trump would have taken the actions that we have seen in recent days. But from a raw political perspective, you never want to give your political opponent an opening to address the needs that many of your constituents have. And that's what we're seeing playing out right now.
The Independent
22-05-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Democrats may require 2028 contenders to release full health information after disastrous Biden campaign
Some Democrats are discussing plans to require 2028 contenders to release their full health information after the disastrous campaign of former President Joe Biden. In 2028, candidates who were more disconnected from the Biden White House may be able to garner more credibility with voters among those who feel betrayed by party leadership. Democratic strategists speaking to The Bulwark said a consensus is forming that whoever campaigns for the party's nomination in 2028 will have to share a large amount of health information and a more extensive health report than previously expected. There's also a belief that anyone over 70 won't run. Biden recently announced an 'aggressive' prostate cancer diagnosis, which raised additional concerns regarding his health while in office. The former president was forced out of the 2024 race after a catastrophic debate performance against President Donald Trump in June last year, and he was replaced atop the Democratic ticket by then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Democratic strategists have also grown tired of the former president claiming he would have won had he stayed in the race. Anthony Coley, a Democratic strategist who worked for the Biden administration, told The Hill last week, 'Would it be nice if Biden finally accepted and admitted he shouldn't have run for a second term? Sure.' 'But candidly, does it really matter at this point? History will have the final say — and its first draft isn't looking good,' he added. This comes as Harris is reportedly considering a run for California governor next year, but has yet to announce a campaign even as the race takes shape around her. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who's running to replace California Governor Gavin Newsom, said in a statement on Tuesday that Harris and Biden's former Health and Human Services Secretary, Xavier Becerra, who has announced that he's also running for governor in the state, should apologize for covering up Biden's health status. Villaraigosa referenced the recent book Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. 'What I've seen in news coverage and excerpts from the new book 'Original Sin' is deeply troubling,' he said. 'At the highest levels of our government, those in power were intentionally complicit or told outright lies in a systematic cover up to keep Joe Biden's mental decline from the public.' 'Now, we have come to learn this cover up includes two prominent California politicians who served as California Attorney General – one who is running for Governor and another who is thinking about running for Governor,' he added. 'Those who were complicit in the cover up should take responsibility for the part they played in this debacle, hold themselves accountable, and apologize to the American people,' Villaraigosa said. 'I call on Kamala Harris and Xavier Becerra to do just that – and make themselves available to voters and the free press because there's a lot of questions that need to be answered.' The revelations regarding Biden's decline in office are set to have significant effects on how the Democratic Party conducts its elections and how candidates run their campaigns. It may also affect the demands placed on candidates, the media strategies they choose to enact, and the scheduling of presidential primaries. While every election leads to soul-searching within a party, the 2024 loss and Biden's handling of his campaign led to a significant trust issue that the party will have to confront, Democratic strategists have said, according to The Bulwark. Some strategists compared it to the authorization of the war in Iraq, which shaped the contours of the 2008 primary and which saw the campaigns of those who backed the invasion crater. 'Obama was fortunate because he wasn't in D.C., so it allowed him to have natural distance. He could say 'I'm an outsider' without saying 'I'm an outsider',' a Democratic strategist who worked on a 2008 campaign told the outlet. Former President Barack Obama wasn't in Congress in 2002 and, as such, he didn't have to cast a ballot on the resolution authorizing the war in Iraq.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Democrats want Biden to take responsibility for loss to Trump
Democrats are tired of Joe Biden saying he would have won. What they want, they say, is for the former president to admit to his part in the party's 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Democratic strategists, operatives and donors this week in conversations and text exchanges all reiterated the same thing: They want Biden to take responsibility for former Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat to the new president. They also say he never should have run for a second term in the first place. 'Would it be nice if Biden finally accepted and admitted he shouldn't have run for a second term? Sure,' said Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, who worked for the Biden administration. 'But candidly, does it really matter at this point? History will have the final say — and its first draft isn't looking good.' Democrats continue to find themselves in a dire state as they desperately try to figure out how to rebuild their party after November's devastating defeat. Polling this week from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs revealed that only about one-third of Democrats are 'very optimistic' or 'somewhat optimistic' about the future of their party. That is a huge drop from July 2024 when 6 in 10 Democrats said they had an optimistic view of their party. Democrats know they have to rewrite their playbook almost entirely from their messaging and the way they connect with voters to the way they view fundraising. It's no longer OK to say they outraised and outspent the opponent, some of them acknowledge, because Trump proved twice that both points didn't matter. But the thing that irks them arguably the most is the way Biden and his closest advisers conducted themselves as they decided to seek another term in office. And lately, as a rash of books (including this author's 'Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House') and reports have come out about Biden's mental acuity, the way he has tried to rewrite the narrative recently has also annoyed a lot of Democrats. In a string of interviews in recent weeks, Biden has defended his record and pushed back at critics — even former aides — who argued that he suffered cognitive decline. 'They are wrong,' Biden said of the criticism. 'There is nothing to sustain that.' He also went on to defend his performance as president: 'I said when I got out of the race, I was still going to be president. 'I think I did a pretty damn good job the last six months,' he said. But he also maintained that he 'wasn't surprised' Harris ended up losing. He attributed her defeat largely to sexism. The interviews have angered Democrats who say they can only begin their rebuilding efforts with some accountability on what exactly went wrong. That begins with Biden, they say. 'He needs to stop talking about what could have happened and what should have happened and how the party betrayed him and start talking about how he ultimately betrayed the party,' said one Democratic strategist. 'The reason we find ourselves in this position is because he was too stubborn to step aside.' In a series of posts on social platform X this week, former Obama administration adviser David Axelrod — who was one of the few Democrats who was openly skeptical of Biden running for a second term in recent years — doubled down on his thinking. 'A lot of folks now are acknowledging what was obvious then: A guy who was already showing frailties and would have been closer to 90 than 80 by the end of his second term should not have run for the hardest job on the planet,' Axelrod said. 'Never was going to end well.' 'Next to being president, the pressure of running for it is almost as hard,' Axelrod said. 'The idea that an 81-year-old man, already limited, could handle both — and then serve another four years — always was nuts. And the people closest to him did him no favor by not telling him the truth.' Judging by Biden's approach in his recent interviews, Democrats say they are doubtful that the former president or his closest advisers will do an about-face. Nayyera Haq, who served as an aide in the Obama White House, said fellow Democrats are looking to the future. 'The difference now with Biden saying he would have won is that there is no longer a cadre of people whose job it is to protect the aging president's ego,' Haq said. 'Like most of the country, they want to move on and look to what's next.' And as for Biden's top advisers, Haq added: 'I wouldn't expect any of the Biden loyalists to change their tune now, not after years of creating the original problematic reality.' Amie Parnes covers the White House and presidential politics for The Hill. She is also the co-author of several bestsellers, including the recent 'Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
What happens if Trump completely ignores a judge's order?
Ankush Khardori and Anthony Coley join The Weekend to discuss why contempt proceedings against Donald Trump have been put on pause.
