President Trump: As I announced earlier, based on preliminary conversations between the United States and Iran over the past two days, I've directed the Department of War to temporarily postpone planned strikes against major energy and electricity targets in Iran, to determine whether a broader agreement can be reached.
President Trump: Over the past three weeks, the United States Military and our partners have been decimating Iran's military capabilities with overwhelming firepower, skill, lethality and force, and we're destroying their ballistic missiles and drones programs, with launches down by more than ninety percent.
President Trump: You know, there's an expression that ninety percent of the crime is caused by two percent of the population. And when you hear that, you realize why we can do such a good job. We moved three thousand people out, permanently out of Washington. These were career criminals. Many of them came in through the Biden open border disaster.
President Trump: Just as we have in D.C., here in Memphis, we've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded. In fact, you're half a percentage point away from the record, so we'll catch 'em in the next month or two, alright? I think that's going to happen. That includes a sixty percent drop in robberies, a seventy-four percent drop in car jacking, and motor vehicle thefts; we have always achieved numbers that are good, these numbers are right on line to be among the best that we have ever done…we've achieved a seventy percent reduction in murders from the peak in this place. In total, we've arrested seven thousand criminals, seized more than one thousand, one hundred illegal guns, taken more than one thousand pounds of illicit narcotics, and rescued more than one hundred and fifty missing children, making their parents beyond happy.
President Trump: For years, our leaders allowed entire cities in America to be destroyed by crime, drugs, and gang violence. Tolerating this violence was always a choice. Nineteen of the twenty most dangerous cities in America are run by democrats.
President Trump: Since I took office, we have successfully arrested or removed from the country, over five hundred thousand hard-lined criminals. And under our leadership, last year the murder rate nationwide saw the single largest decline ever recorded, to the lowest level in a hundred and twenty-five years.
Stephen Miller [Memphis Safe Task Force Roundtable]: First and most importantly, thank you to President Trump, who's vision, and courage, and determination, has achieved something that if you had predicted it fifteen months ago, people would have it was impossible. If you would have said, fifteen months ago, that we would achieve the lowest national murder rate; not in five years, or ten years, or fifteen, or twenty, or thirty, or forty, but in a hundred and twenty five years, nobody would have believed it possible. And President Trump did exactly that, and it is a miracle. Just think about this for a second. Under President Trump's leadership, the largest reduction in murders in American history, the largest reduction in violent crime in American history, the largest reduction in drug overdose deaths in American history, the largest reduction in Fentanyl in American history, the largest reduction in illegal immigration in American history, and the largest number of criminals arrest, removed, or deported, in American history. All done in one year. If we had an honest media in this country, the statistics I just gave you would be twenty-four/seven on the news.