“Please, Donald Trump”: This Fox News Host Just Made An Alarmist Plea On Camera
“I just don’t understand why…”
Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt on Monday begged President Donald Trump to send troops into New York despite recent stats showing Gotham’s crime rate at a remarkable low.
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Ainsley and co-hosts were discussing Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., and threats to deploy National Guard units in other blue cities such as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York.
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The show played a clip of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson objecting to the possibility. “We are not going to surrender our humanity to this tyrant,” Johnson said in the video. He has also called a military deployment “costly, illegal, and unconstitutional.”
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“I just don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to clean up these cities,” Earhardt said. “I mean, D.C. needed to be cleaned up. It looks like it has been.”
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Violent crime in the capital was at a 30-year low before Trump’s intervention, which he credited for making the streets “SAFE AGAIN.”
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Earhardt cited White House data that 93 arrests were made in D.C. on Saturday and 46 of those people were in the U.S. illegally.
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She then pivoted to the city where she works, New York, which could be seen outside the Fox News studio window.
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“Fine, you don’t want ’em? Send ’em to New York, please,” she said of the Guard. “Please, Donald Trump, send ’em here. Clean up these streets. I welcome it.”
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Earhardt may be overplaying the urgency. Stats released by the NYPD earlier this month indicate New York City had “the fewest shooting incidents and shooting victims in recorded history” in the first seven months of the year.
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One observer, leaning into assertions that Trump is using the troop deployments as a distraction from another issue, thought Earhardt should be making a different plea:
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