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Vance defends federalization of DC Police, slams protesters at union station
Vance accused D.C. officials of downplaying crime
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Lalit K Jha - Wed, 20, Aug 2025
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 16, 2025. / REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Vice President J.D. Vance on Aug. 20 defended the Trump administration’s crime crackdown during a surprise stop at Union Station, saying the federalisation of the Metropolitan Police could continue if needed.
“If the president… thinks that he has to extend this order to ensure that people have access to public safety, that’s exactly what he’ll do,” Vance told reporters after meeting with National Guard troops at the iconic Union Station in the national capital.
Flanked by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House aide Stephen Miller, Vance thanked guardsmen for their work: “You guys bust your ass all day and we give you hamburgers—not a fair trade but we’re grateful.”
Miller vowed to pour “thousands more resources” into the city and lashed out at protesters as “stupid white hippies” and “communists.”
Vance accused D.C. officials of downplaying crime: “Crime statistics all over the country have been massively underreported.” He also dismissed polls against the Guard deployment, quipping that they were “the same polls that said Kamala Harris would win the popular vote by 10 points.”
On Ukraine, he ripped the press: “It’s kind of disgraceful that the American media is attacking the president for trying to bring peace to the world.” The three stayed for lunch with Guard members after the press was escorted out.
Miller said the White House would “add thousands more resources” to the DC crime crackdown. He also called protesters “stupid white hippies” and “communists.”
Asked if the White House would extend the federalisation of the MPD, Vance said, “If the president of the United States thinks that he has to extend this order to ensure that people have access to public safety, that’s exactly what he’ll do.”
Vance said crime statistics “all over the country” have been “massively underreported.” Asked what evidence he had that MPD crime statistics had been manipulated, the VP said DOJ and FBI statistics “back it up.”
“It’s kind of bizarre that we have a bunch of old primarily white people who are out there protesting the policies that keep people safe when they’ve never felt danger in their entire lives.”
He said he was “highly skeptical” of recent polling showing that a majority of DC residents do not support the Guard or federalization of the MPD and said maybe they were “the same polls that said Kamala Harris would win the popular vote by 10 points.”
Asked about media coverage of the president handling of the war in Ukraine, Vance said “it’s kind of disgraceful that the American media is attacking the president for trying to bring peace to the world.”
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