President Trump on Friday touting one full week without a murder in Washington D.C. on Friday — and that has continued through the weekend as of Sunday afternoon — since he deployed federal officers and troops to patrol the streets. “No murders since I started,” Trump said Friday. “It’s a terrible thing to say. Who would think that you have to say that there have been no murders? It’s terrible.” “There have been no murders in the last week, and nobody can remember the last time that this happened, and there won’t be murders because all the thugs are hiding or they’re being sent back to their countries or they’re in jail, and it’ll only get better,” Trump said. DC News Now reports that 700 people have been arrested, and the no-murder trend has continued since August 13. There was one on August 12, after Trump signed the executive order but before troops deployed on the streets:
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