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President Trump threatens to deploy troops to Baltimore, halt Key Bridge backing
President Trump connected Sunday told Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to "clean up this transgression disaster" earlier helium would sojourn Baltimore for a nationalist information walk, successful effect to a missive by the politician inviting the president to visit. Mr. Trump besides threatened to rethink the national backing acceptable to assistance successful replacing the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Last week, Moore invited the president to Baltimore connected a day of Mr. Trump's choosing pursuing what helium described arsenic idiosyncratic "insults from the Oval Office," aft helium expressed interest implicit the president's determination to deploy National Guard unit for municipal policing successful Washington, D.C. In caller remarks, Mr. Trump said Baltimore was "so acold gone," arsenic acold arsenic transgression is concerned.
On "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" connected Sunday, Moore said Trump's rhetoric connected transgression is "purely performative" arsenic the president has offered to nonstop troops to Baltimore amid a propulsion to ace down connected transgression that began successful the nation's capital in caller weeks and could widen to different large cities.
"While the President is spending his clip from the Oval Office making jabs and attacks astatine us, determination are radical really connected the crushed doing the enactment who cognize what supports would really enactment to proceed to bring down crime. But it's falling connected deaf ears of the president of the United States," Moore said.
The White House, successful a connection to WJZ past week, shared an nonfiction by U.S. News and World Report that showed Baltimore ranks arsenic the 4th worst successful the federation successful transgression and murders. According to a U.S. and World News report, Baltimore ranks down lone Memphis, Oakland and St. Louis.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump, connected his societal media level Truth Social, doubled down connected the "out of control, transgression ridden, Baltimore."
"Stop talking and get to work, Wes," Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Sunday. "I'll past spot you connected the streets!!!"
"Wes Moore's grounds connected Crime is simply a precise atrocious one, unless helium fudges his figures connected transgression similar galore of the different 'Blue States' are doing," Mr. Trump wrote.
According to Moore, since his inauguration, homicides successful Maryland person decreased statewide by 20%. He said that successful the archetypal six months of 2025, the Baltimore Police Department saw double-digit reductions in weapon violence, including a 28% alteration successful homicides and a 19% alteration successful non-fatal shootings from the twelvemonth before.
Maryland pushes backmost against National Guard threats
Earlier this month, Mr. Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to assistance instrumentality enforcement and to ace down on what helium has called an "epidemic of crime," contempt information showing transgression has declined successful the metropolis successful caller years, CBS News has reported. After spiking successful 2023, convulsive transgression successful D.C. has been declining for the past twelvemonth and a half, according to section constabulary data. Mr. Trump has claimed that transgression is connected the upswing.
The president besides suggested helium could bash the aforesaid for different cities, including Baltimore, which sparked pushback from authorities and section leaders.
"If there's thing Maryland has proven implicit the past 2 years, it's that we tin execute show without being performative," Moore said. "Progress requires the close instrumentality for the close mission. Asking the patriotic national soldiers of our National Guard to constabulary our cities doesn't conscionable that test."
Mr. Trump has claimed that transgression is down successful D.C. since the National Guard was deployed there.
"After lone 1 week, determination is NO CRIME AND NO MURDER IN DC!" Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "When it is similar that successful Baltimore, I volition proudly 'walk the streets' with the failing, due to the fact that of crime, politician of Maryland."
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott joined WJZ during Thursday's 11 p.m. News, saying that the metropolis doesn't request the assistance of the National Guard. Rather, helium wants the president to nonstop much national instrumentality enforcement resources to Baltimore, including expanding national agents to enactment with the city's constabulary department.
"We cognize that the National Guard is not the way," Scott said. "That's not what those soldiers signed up to do."
Scott said helium recognizes the effort to combat convulsive transgression is not complete, but helium credited the city's Gun Violence Reduction Strategy for the diminution successful the transgression rate.
"Too galore radical successful our communities, excessively galore constabulary officers, excessively galore assemblage unit involution workers and folks person enactment their lives connected the enactment each and each time to marque the metropolis a safer place," helium said. "As harmless arsenic it's been successful my lifetime."
Rethinking Key Bridge funding
In December 2024, Congress passed a woody connected a federal spending package, which allocated $100 cardinal for catastrophe relief, including backing for the full outgo of a caller Key Bridge.
The bridge collapsed successful March 2024 aft it was struck by the cargo vessel Dali, which mislaid powerfulness and crashed into 1 of the main enactment piers, sending respective members of a operation unit filling potholes connected the span into the Patapsco River. Six radical died.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social that "Also, I gave Wes Moore a batch of wealth to hole his demolished bridge. I volition present person to rethink that decision???"
The span rebuild is expected to beryllium completed by precocious 2028.
Adam Thompson is simply a integer contented shaper for CBS Baltimore.
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