Following Attorney General Pam Bondi's contribution to Donald Trump's rambling press conference on Monday, MSNBC reporter Jonathan Allen — a lifelong resident of Washington D.C. — expressed dismay and disgust with comments she made about his hometown.
With host Anna Cabrera noting that Trump is calling in the National Guard to take over the streets now, despite refusing to do so during the Jan. 6 riot and insurrection, Allen had a few things about that and Bondi's supporting comments, calling their assertions "insane."
"I mean, I have lived in the Washington metropolitan area for my entire life, almost 50 years now," he began. "I've lived in the city for 20 years. The most violent moment in my life in Washington, D.C., the greatest cause of a threat, not only physical threat, but bigger threat to the country and certainly to law enforcement officers was January 6th, 2021, when Donald Trump's supporters, his allies, some people who currently work for him charged into the Capitol, beat cops, screamed profanities at them and yelled, 'Kill the cops,' said they wanted to hang the vice president of the United States."
"I do want to say one thing about what Attorney General Bondi said, because we see a lot of big promises," he later added. "She said, quote, 'Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today,' and I think we should keep an eye on that as time goes on: 'The last crime in Washington, D.C., having been committed right now.'"
"Just one other thing with the perspective of having been a Washingtonian for all my life," he elaborated. "The idea that this is the worst D.C. has ever been is insane! We had a mayor who was smoking crack; Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Berry, who was caught smoking crack at the time many of the parks that Donald Trump and [Interior Secretary] Doug Burgum were just talking about, were open-air drug markets, and you had homicide rates that were much higher in the in 1980s than they are now."
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