‘It will stun you’: Stephen Miller says ‘massive scandal’ in D.C. crime stats as murders were reported as accidents

As President Donald Trump on Monday continued to praise “zero murders” in Washington, D.C., since he sent in the National Guard, his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is sounding the alarm about a “massive scandal” involving deception in the city’s crime statistics.

“We’ve uncovered [and are] in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, D.C. with the doctoring of crime stats, and the Department of Justice under the attorney general is leading the effort to uncover this,” Miller said in the Oval Office.

“But when we ultimately share the results, it will stun you the extent to which, even though D.C. had the worst crime in America, honestly measured it dramatically understated how bad it was.”

“There’s even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents instead of murders. This is how severe the manipulation of the crime data has been in the city, and it will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light.”

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“People changed their lives for fear of being m-rdered, mugged and carjacked… President Trump has FREED 700,000 people in this city who were living under the rule of… pic.twitter.com/rO6qxFTaOT

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Miller praised Trump’s action with the National Guard, saying, “No police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders.”

“No one can even find a record of being murder-free for as long as we’ve been murder-free under the president’s leadership.”

He said he’s had numerous interactions with police, and “Members of the public are going up to them and thanking them, just overflowing with gratitude because for the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets.

“You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed, mugged or wearing their watches again, they’re wearing jewelry again, and they’re carrying purses again. People have changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered mugged and carjacked.

“It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,00 people n this city who were living under the rule of criminals and thugs,” he continued.

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“The street criminals here in Washington, D.C., were doing business directly with the transnational criminal cartels, the foreign terrorist organizations. So not only was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but they were working with some of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into this city. What we are uncovering every day is shocking to us.”

Trump is looking to replicate his D.C. success in other American crime-ridden cities, with Chicago a possibility at the top of the list, despite opposition from local officials including Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson who said: “The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny, resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We’re not gonna back down. We’re not gonna cower. We’re not gonna bend.”

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“We’re not gonna surrender our humanity to this tyrant. The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny– resisting those who wishes to undermine the interest of working… pic.twitter.com/AdQFCXBebV

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