"Big Balls" allegedly carjacked in DC

[Danmel]

Trump threatening Federal takeover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/trump-doge-member-assaulted.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE8.QuAe.XeCOH1mqXyIu&smid=url-share
Who believes this is real?

[dweller]

1. He got his ass kicked

by a bunch of kids ?

Consider it a warning

✌🏻

[Skittles]

2. because, you know, shit like that never happens in Florida

[dalton99a]

3. Inquiring minds ask what happened to his balls

[newdeal2]

4. Sounds about as authentic as Butler PA

What was Big Balls doing at 3 AM, inquiring minds want to know.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. Trump's goons are telling D.C. cops what to write in their reports

[chowder66]

5. Fucking asshole says....

"The president argued that young people in the city do not fear consequences if they commit crimes, tapping into a thorny local issue."

FUCK RIGHT OFF YOU PROJECTIONIST!!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker. Trump floats taking federal control of the city.

D.C., Md. & Va.
Trump threatens federal takeover of D.C. after attack on DOGE worker

Trump floats taking federal control of the city after the man known online as “Big Balls” was injured in a carjacking. Elon Musk also says D.C. should be taken over.

Updated
August 5, 2025 at 9:45 p.m. EDT just now
7 min
By Emily Davies, Olivia George and Meagan Flynn

A protégé of Elon Musk and former DOGE staffer was injured in an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning in D.C., a police report said, in an attack that captured the attention of President Donald Trump and reinspired his threats to take over the nation’s capital.

“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,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. … Billionaire Elon Musk, who helmed the U.S. DOGE Service, wrote on X that a DOGE “team member” was attacked, and Musk called to federalize D.C. A police report identified the victim as Edward Coristine, who is also known by the nickname “Big Balls.” … Trump’s Truth Social post was accompanied by an image of a young person smeared in blood, sitting shirtless on the ground.

D.C. police have arrested a 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland and charged them with unarmed carjacking, the department said in a news release. Two people familiar with the details of the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the suspects are being held at the city’s youth detention center.

The attack is the latest seemingly random assault on a federal staffer in Washington, intensifying scrutiny of the nation’s capital from Congress and the White House. In June, 21-year-old congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym was killed in crossfire near the District’s convention center. He was a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, working for Republican Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas. No one has been charged in his death.

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Jenny Gathright, Peter Hermann and Martin Weil contributed to this report.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. "Nobody touch my precious Big Balls"

[Justice Brandeis]

9. Sounds like fake news to me

nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Trump threatens to end Home Rule, calls on DC to prosecute minors as adults

YOUTH CRIME
Trump threatens to end Home Rule, calls on DC to prosecute minors as adults

MPD said the man bloodied the photo on Trump's social media was a victim of an unarmed carjacking in Northwest on Sunday.

Author: Ittai Sopher
Published: 9:21 PM EDT August 5, 2025
Updated: 9:21 PM EDT August 5, 2025

WASHINGTON — Youth crime is the focus of President Donald Trump's latest threat to take back federal control over Washington, D.C., calling on the District to try minors as young as 14 years old as adults or else face losing self-governance.

"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 alleged on his TruthSocial platform on Tuesday. "They are not afraid of law enforcement, because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it's going to happen now! The law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults."

Trump attached a picture of a violent scene -- a shirtless man sitting on the ground with a bloodied nose -- to the post, apparently a victim of an attack. Speaking from the White House later that day, the president said the victim had been an employee at the Department of Government Efficiency.

"You saw that young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in D.C.," Trump said. "Either they're gonna straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we're going to have to federalize it and run it the way it's supposed to run."

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[dweller]

11. The takeaway here ?

Minors are adults …

🤔


✌🏻

[orleans]

13. indeed. and that's something we should all remember the next time we think of him raping

a child or molesting his daughter when she was a kid---minors are adults

god, i hate that monster!

[C_U_L8R]

12. He's just embarrassed to admit

That he got supremely wedgied. Probably popped a big ball or two.

[John1956PA]

14. If, as Vance said, these DOGE kids are being sought after by employers . . .

. . . willing to pay them big salaries, why is this individual still hanging around D.C.?

[AZJonnie]

15. Well before any laws are changed to prosecute minors as adults, protests would be banned in the city

I think he's afraid he'll get January 6th'd so he wants to build up a completely impenetrable military presence around himself. Of course if true, one would logically ask "what the fuck is he up to that he thinks he needs even MORE protection from the citizenry than he already has?"

[themaguffin]

16. This is sketchy. He's the perfect person to be bought to do this political bullshit

[DET]

17. I Believe It

Unlike the fake assassination attempt, this sounds credible. The kid should have known better than to hang out on the streets of DC at 3am. Sadly, however, it does give Trump a convenient excuse to bully the city.

[allegorical oracle]

18. Assumed that the hijacked car was a Tesla. Nope -- it was a 1999 Ford Explorer. Seems not

worth the effort or the consequences.