Pirro Vows Crackdown As Democrats Brace for Legal Storm
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., left a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House with a stark message.
She said she just met with the president to discuss “crime in the nation’s capital.”
“Our job is to get guns off the street, drugs off the street, take care of those individuals who are threatening, carjacking other people, and make this city safe and clean again. And that’s just what we’re going to do. And if you don’t buy into it, you’re going to have to deal with us,” she said in a video posted on X.
The Capitol has been a hot topic of conversation, as the city has been a hotbed of crime for decades while being led by a string of Democratic mayors.
President Trump wants me to relay a message to you about crimes in the nation’s capital pic.twitter.com/zvT5YqpaAC
— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) August 5, 2025
President Trump threatened to take over control of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday after one of the original staffers for the Department of Government Efficiency was attacked in an attempted carjacking, NBC News reported.
Edward Coristine — known online as “Big Balls” — and a woman identified in police reports as his significant other were targeted by a group of teens just after midnight Sunday.
It happened in the nation’s capital.
Police say two 15-year-olds from Maryland were arrested.
According to the police report, officers saw about 10 “juveniles” surrounding the car and assaulting Coristine. That prompted officers to get out of their vehicle.
All but two of the suspects fled.
Police said Coristine told officers he pushed the woman into the car and “turned to deal with the suspects,” who then assaulted him.
The case is under investigation by the Carjacking Task Force. Multiple suspects are still on the loose.
Trump, without naming Coristine, posted a statement on Truth Social blasting local leadership and calling the city “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 almost immediately released,” Trump wrote.
He said minors as young as 14 should be tried as adults.
“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,” he said.
Former DOGE chief Elon Musk shared a screenshot of the post on X and backed the idea of federal control.
He referenced a DOGE team member — again, without naming Coristine — who he said “ran to defend” a woman being assaulted and was “severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her.”
Police say the vehicle involved belonged to Coristine.
Violent crime is down 26% from last year, according to preliminary police figures.
Still, the alleged attack on Coristine comes about a month after a 21-year-old congressional intern was caught in crossfire and fatally shot in Washington.
Trump has previously expressed a desire to “clean up” the nation’s capital and has threatened a federal takeover of the city, which already has limited ability to self-govern.
Congress has the power to rescind that authority at its discretion — or the president’s.
We pass the BOWSER Act.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) August 5, 2025
We revoke DC Home Rule.
We govern Washington through Congress, as the Constitution originally provided.
Our nation’s capital deserves to be a shining example to the world, not a national embarrassment. pic.twitter.com/sRspJ7vNhy
“We pass the BOWSER Act. We revoke DC Home Rule. We govern Washington through Congress, as the Constitution originally provided. Our nation’s capital deserves to be a shining example to the world, not a national embarrassment,” Republican Sen. Mike Lee suggested on X.
