Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’

Tommy Christopher Aug 13th, 2025, 2:01 pm

CNN commentator and White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover.

Trump held a press conference Monday to announce the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. — a move that critics have described as a stunt to distract from the uproar over deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein .

The president spoke and took questions for more than an hour, insisting that crime has gone up in D.C., even as data shows it has gone down . But even some critics of Trump’s move acknowledge that crime is a serious probl

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