Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has claimed that he feels “perfectly safe” walking around Washington, D.C., and accused Republicans of exaggerating crime in the nation’s capital, calling their concerns “full of it.”
During an interview with attorney Aaron Parnas on The Parnas Perspective podcast, Schumer was asked about President Donald Trump’s recent move to take control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.
Trump has deployed 800 National Guard troops to crack down on violent crime in the city.
“I want to get your reaction to everything that’s happening in D.C.,” Parnas asked.
“But, first, a lot of folks on the Republican side, your Republican colleagues, say that they are very scared to walk outside in D.C., that they think this is completely the right thing to do.
“Senator, are you scared walking around Washington, D.C., these days?”
“No,” Schumer replied.
“I walk around all the time.
“I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk as the sun is rising around some of the Capitol and the other monuments and things.
“And I feel perfectly safe,” the Democrat leader claimed.
Trump announced Monday that he would federalize the city’s police force.
The president said the deployment was part of a crackdown on violent crime in the nation’s capital.
Schumer, however, dismissed the move as nothing more than a political ploy.
“They’re full of it,” Schumer said.
“Look, here’s what they’ve done, Aaron, plain and simple.
“Donald Trump wants to distract.
“That’s his game plan,” he claimed.
“It’s been his MO for his first term in the presidency, and now, so he’s trying to make this a distraction.
“What’s he trying to distract from?
“Well, a lot of things. But above all, Epstein.”
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The Senate’s top Democrat pointed to his party’s push for the release of all documents connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
However, Trump has said he supports this demand and has instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to “produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony” on the matter.
“We’ve been confronting him on Epstein very successfully left and right, so much so that Johnson had to dismiss, you know, had to send his House home early, and we called it the Epstein recess,” Schumer said.
Schumer vowed Democrats will renew their pressure when Congress returns from its August recess.
“We have found an arcane rule that if five members of our Homeland Security Committee demand documents, we should get them,” he added.
“When I really — you know, when I attacked them for sending the Deputy Attorney General, Trump’s lawyer, down to interview Ghislaine, they went crazy.
“They’re feeling it, and we’re not letting go.
“When we come back, we are going to have many more things in terms of going after them on the Epstein files.
“So that’s what it is. It’s a distraction, plain and simple.”
Democrats have largely dismissed Trump’s tough-on-crime push in the capital, citing police data they claim shows crime at a 30-year low.
Since August 7, however, law enforcement in Washington, D.C., has arrested more than 100 people, including 43 arrests on Tuesday alone.
White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields fired back at Schumer’s remarks, saying:
“Chuck Schumer, another out-of-touch liberal, enjoys the comfort of full-time, taxpayer-funded security details provided by the U.S. Capitol Police.
“For the rest of America, who face the realities of crime in Democrat-run cities without an armed detail, they welcome President Trump’s tough-on-crime approach that is Making America Safe Again.”
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