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CNN anchor Audie Cornish suggested on Tuesday that President Donald Trump ’s Washington, D.C., crime crackdown makes him look like a North Korean dictator.

During her "CNN This Morning" report on how Trump’s critics think deploying U.S. National Guard troops in the nation’s capital to handle crime makes him like a dictator, Cornish joked that the murder rate in North Korea’s dictatorship is low, too.

"There's probably no murders in North Korea, too. But I don't want to be presumptuous," she said after noting a New York Post cover stating that there have been zero murders in D.C. following Trump’s crackdown that started earlier this month.

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