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Lead Ed­i­tor-News­gath­er­ing

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.”