Trump is Right About DC Crime (and the Media Doesn't Want to Report It)

Talking heads on CNN and MSNBC are convinced President Trump has some shadowy ulterior motive for assuming federal control of policing in Washington, D.C. In addition to citing cooked crime statistics to slam President Trump’s federalization of policing in D.C., panelists on the liberal cable networks have begun offering up wild theories for what Trump’s “real” goal was:   One popular theory pushed by MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude, among others, was that the President hoped to “distract” Americans and the media from Jeffrey Epstein. As CNN media critic Brian Stelter explained on Tuesday: There were lots of people yesterday saying, “Hey, is this a distraction? Is Trump trying to distract from the Epstein scandal?” Well, here’s the more interesting — here’s the better question: is it working or not? And I’m here to tell you, yes, it is working. If this was working, yes, it is succeeding. Another theory was that Trump had been motivated primarily by racism. Shortly after the President’s announcement on August 11, CNN national politics correspondent Eva McKend remarked: “He has always felt that American cities, especially this with large black populations, like Washington, D.C., are crime-ridden.” And still others, such as MSNBC host Symone Sanders and MSNBC contributor Barbara McQuade, surmised on Morning Joe that Trump’s declaration was a part of a larger “power grab.” It seems that no matter what President Trump’s administration does, liberal journalists will interpret it as cynically as possible. That’s clearly the what happened in this instance, as evidenced by the loony speculation that ensued.

Aimee Betro — a 45-year-old from West Allis, Wisconsin — in September 2018 met a 31-year-old British man who used the name "Dr. Ice" on a dating app, according to the Daily Mail.Betro traveled to London on Christmas Day 2018, where she met that man — Mohammed Nazir — and reportedly spent a night with him. While Betro left the U.K. and returned to the United States, the pair continued to communicate.'Where are you hiding? Stop playing hide and seek, you are lucky it jammed.'Betro returned to Great Britain in August 2019, according to reports.During a trial that ended Tuesday, a defense lawyer asked Betro what she thought of Nazir, and she responded, "He was very charming, and I did like him. He was sweet, and I did have feelings for him."Nazir reportedly was able to convince the American woman to do his "bidding."BBC News reported that Nazir and his 59-year-old father, Mohammed Aslam, had a dispute with Birmingham businessman Aslat Mahumad.The British outlet reported that the father and son were injured during a physical confrontation with Mahumad at his clothing store in July 2018.Nazir and Aslam reportedly hatched a scheme against Mahumad and planned to use Betro in their plot.RELATED: Arrested wife of 'Ghost Adventures' TV star accused of hiring hit man to kill him: 'Was it done?' The Daily Mail reported that Betro called Mahumad on Sept. 7, 2019, and said she wanted to purchase a car he was selling online.Prosecutor Tom Walkling told the court, "Mr. Mahumad recalls being called by a woman with an American accent. ... He was confused, as he hadn't listed his number online. The woman said she wanted to buy the car today, but Mr. Mahumad said she could see it tomorrow."Betro's alleged plot to lure Mahumad to her failed, so she reportedly purchased a Mercedes E240 from another seller.Walkling said the man who sold the car to Betro indicated that he "sold it to someone he described, perhaps unkindly, as a short, fat woman who spoke with an American accent, wore a summer dress, and had a bag over her shoulder."Police say Betro drove to Mahumad's family home on the night of Sept. 7, 2019, in her newly purchased Mercedes.While Betro reportedly was lying in wait with a gun, Mahumad's 33-year-old son Sikander Ali returned home around 9:10 p.m.Jurors at the Birmingham Crown Court were shown surveillance video of a figure with a covered face approaching Ali and attempting to fire at him at point-blank range. However, police said the gun jammed, and Ali escaped by speeding away in his SUV.'I think she was fatally flawed.'While Ali was fleeing, his vehicle allegedly clipped the Mercedes and damaged the car's door so severely that it wouldn't close.Investigators said Betro ditched the Mercedes, but left a black glove — which had her DNA on it — in the vehicle.Jurors were shown screenshots of text messages Betro purportedly sent to Mahumad after the attempted killing, and she allegedly told her intended target, "Where are you hiding? Stop playing hide and seek, you are lucky it jammed."Betro took a taxi to return to the Mahumad's home just hours after the first alleged assassination attempt, police stated. CCTV showed a figure firing three shots through the windows of the home in the early hours of Sept. 8, 2019. However, there was no one home at the time.Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Orencas claimed Betro used a niqab in an attempt to hide her face, but it "didn't work very well.""It was a fairly poor attempt [at disguise], and again, whether or not the attitude was that the British police wouldn't be up to it, I think she was fatally flawed, if that was ever the consideration in her mind," Orencas explained.Orencas claimed Betro's motivation for the attempted murder was because she was "in love or infatuated with Nazir."The Daily Mail reported that Betro flew to the U.S. the day after the shooting, and Nazir did the same three days later.While on the lam for nearly six years, Betro reportedly fled the U.S. and traveled to Armenia — but was soon tracked down by an unlikely source.The Daily Mail said it found Betro in Armenia and informed the West Midlands Police about her location on June 15, 2024. The Daily Mail agreed to withhold publishing the news until she was arrested."I would like to put it on formal record and thank the Daily Mail for the information that they kindly shared with us," Orencas stated before adding that "there were parallel inquiries going on, but without a doubt, the Daily Mail were of great assistance."Armenian authorities detained Betro and extradited her to the U.K. to face trial.On Tuesday, jurors convicted Betro of conspiracy to murder, possessing a self-loading pistol with intent to cause fear of violence, and illegally importing ammunition.RELATED: Multimillionaire hired numerous hitmen in murder-for-hire plots against wife — then killed himself as cops closed in: FBI Betro is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.According to GB News, Specialist Prosecutor Hannah Sidaway stated, "This prosecution is a culmination of years of hard work doggedly pursuing Aimee Betro across countries and borders while she remained relentless in her bid to escape justice. Betro tried to kill a man in a Birmingham street at point-blank range. It is sheer luck that he managed to get away unscathed."Meanwhile, Nazir and Aslam were arrested last year and convicted of conspiracy to murder.Nazir was sentenced to 32 years in prison, and Aslam was sentenced to 10 years behind bars.Walkling insisted that "revenge was the motive" for the assassination attempt, BBC News said in a separate story.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On July 24, former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis formally petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalizes same-sex marriage, marking the first significant challenge to the ruling since its inception. Davis, who was jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples due to her religious beliefs, is appealing a $360,000 judgment against her for emotional damages and attorney fees, arguing that her First Amendment rights protect her from liability and that Obergefell was wrongly decided.“Just like abortion, the left tries to tell us that [same-sex marriage] is untouchable, that this cannot be overturned. I'm not so sure that they're correct about that,” says Liz Wheeler, BlazeTV host of “The Liz Wheeler Show.” She reads a line from Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrent opinion published following the overturning of Roe v. Wade: “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’ we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”“‘Substantive due process,’” says Liz, “is this legal philosophy held by leftist jurists that reads rights into the Constitution where they are not enumerated.”“It's just a way of judicial activists – ideologues who are on the bench – to invent meaning to the Constitution where the Constitution had no such meaning.”Like abortion, which is “guaranteed nowhere to anyone in the Constitution,” same-sex marriage is yet another example of substantive due process.“Even if you're pro-gay marriage, even if you are libertarian and you don't think we should be telling other people what to do, if you read the Constitution of the United States, start to finish ... is gay marriage ever referred to?” asks Liz. “No, it's never referred to.”“You cannot contest the reality that the Constitution of the United States contains no such reference to gay marriage directly or indirectly.”“Even if you think that the legislature of the United States should make gay marriage legal, which you're obviously wrong on that for multiple different reasons, that's different than the Supreme Court pretending there is a Constitutional right to gay marriage in the Constitution when there's not,” Liz explains.If SCOTUS agrees to take Davis’ case, there’s a chance — albeit a “low” one, says Liz — that the Court might re-evaluate Obergefell and reverse its original decision.“It's probably not going to be heard by the Supreme Court,” she says, but “it should be because Kim Davis had her religious freedom ... violated by the government, and she's one of the only Americans right now that has standing to challenge Obergefell because she was hurt by it.”However, even if Obergefell is overturned, it’s unlikely to change much in terms of who can legally get married, Liz explains. “The United States Congress has passed a piece of legislation codifying gay marriage to a certain extent. It requires any state that doesn't allow same-sex marriage to recognize ... any valid marriage from any other state. So it kind of effectively nationally forces gay marriage in all the states,” she says.And yet, she hopes Obergefell is reversed anyway because what it will really be reversing is the idea that the government has the right to redefine a word.“Marriage means the union between one man and one woman, and they said, ‘No, no, we're going to redefine that. It now means the union between any two consenting adults regardless of their sex.’ When government has the power to redefine a word, they can redefine any word,” says Liz. “And if they can redefine words, if they are the arbiters of truth, then they're tyrants.”To hear more of her commentary, watch the episode above. Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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