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Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:10 PM Aug 2025

D.C.'s crime problem

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Trump: "We will have crime under control very shortly in DC...it's worse than it's ever been...we're going to be getting the criminals the hell out of here. We don't want the criminals in Washington, DC."


On Epstein’s plane 7 times.

Plead the 5th 97 times.

34 felony convictions.

91 criminal charges.

26 sexual assault allegations.

6 bankruptcies.

5 draft deferments.

4 indictments.

2 impeachments.

A fake university and fake charity shut down.

Bankrupt at a casino. 4 times.

$25 million dollar fraud settlement.

$400 million defamation and fraud judgment.

$96 million sexual assault judgments...

x.com/RetroAgent12/status/1955794112063660097



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https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_indictments,_2023-2025#Overview
(caution: link forces open successive Trump court dockets along with report)
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D.C.'s crime problem (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2025 OP
And that's just up till February Bayard Aug 2025 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 2025 #2
Here's the real DC crime problem. edbermac Aug 2025 #3

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