Vance uses TT as high crimebarometer to defend DC crackdown
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Elections 2025
August 20, 2025
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Vice President JD Vance has used Trinidad and Tobago as an example of high crime while defending President Donald Trump’s security crackdown in Washington, D.C.
Vance was booed by protesters as he greeted National Guard troops at Union Station alongside Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. He said crime statistics were “massively underreported” and described the city as overrun by “drug addicts,” “vagrants,” and the “chronically homeless.” Protesters chanted “shame” and “we want the military out of our streets.”
Crime
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