Joe Scarborough admitted on MSNBC's Morning Joe that President Donald Trump's move to a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., police is a good thing, Breitbart reported. Scarborough said many on the left are quietly supporting it behind the scenes and see it as a "positive step."
On Monday, Trump announced that he was fed up with the rampant crime in the nation's capital and would be taking over the Metropolitan Police Department and activating 800 National Guard troops, Fox News reported. "I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order, and public safety in Washington, DC," Trump said at a news conference on Monday.
"And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly," he added. Earlier that day, Trump posted to his Truth Social account that he was going to eliminate "Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum" from Washington, D.C..
The president said that the "days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER!" Of course, this has sent the left into a tailspin about supposed fascism and other recycled claims against Trump, but now it seems that even Scarborough and his ilk are singing Trump's praises for doing what is necessary.
On Tuesday's program, Scarborough noted that even those publicly against this are cheering on Trump. "This is a fascinating story because so many people have been calling me over the past couple of days, going, you know, like Washington, should have gotten involved years ago," Scarborough said.
"This place is dangerous, it’s a mess, it’s a wreck, and whatever. And then they’ll go on Twitter and go ‘his is the worst outrage of all time.’ Which I understand, it’s like people need to express their concerns about Donald Trump going too far," Scarborough added.
"We saw what happened back in 2020 with the National Guard, certainly can’t have any repeat of that. I don’t want the federalization of the entire city, but man, I don’t care what the crime statistics say, crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I’ve been living inside and outside of the city," Scarborough acknowledged.
"It’s just, even now, we, Mika and I, we’re talking to somebody who lives in the city, these are all Democrats who said, you know, our friends won’t walk more than three blocks in DC at night without feeling the complete opposite of New York City, where I’ll walk 40 or 50 blocks at night and not think twice about it. In New York City, in midtown downtown. I mean, New York is a safe, safe place. Washington D.C., man, it’s door to door," the MSNBC host surprisingly admitted.
Washington, D.C., is a haven for journalists, which perhaps is the reason that Trump's otherwise controversial plan is receiving so much support. These people in the establishment media may be leftists, but even they have to admit the time has come to do something, as even they're being victimized despite reports of crime decreasing.
As the New York Post reported, ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips said she has "firsthand experience" with crime in the city. "I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC, where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died, literally two blocks down here from the bureau," Phillips said Monday.
"It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped while walking just two blocks down from here. And then, just this morning, one of my co-workers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau," Phillips continued.
The anchor explained that the perpetrator "was homeless and half-dressed — clearly wasn’t in his clear mind," she added. Phillips fought off her would-be attacker, but it's indicative of what people are facing every day in the nation's capital.
Trump won because he wasn't afraid to say and do what was best for the country, even if it meant he was slandered by the mainstream media. He has continued that into his second term, but because they're being impacted by it, the left is finally on board with what he wants to do for Washington, D.C.
