On August 22, 2025, a man with 14 prior arrests plunged a knife into the neck of a young Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte light-rail train, as she sat unawares in front of him. She died moments later, her blood streaming across the train floor.
“I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed . . . in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic,” President Donald Trump said in a video from the Oval Office. “It’s right on the tape, not really watchable because it’s so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there. So they’re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”
On August 3, a former administration staffer was assaulted by nearly a dozen juveniles when he tried to protect a female companion during a carjacking. Trump wrote on Truth Social that crime in Washington, D.C., was “totally out of control. . . . The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs. Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! . . . Washington DC must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run.”…