Trump's One Small Trick to Destroy American Democracy

About 10 minutes into the astonishing news conference at which President Trump celebrated the lightning-strike operation to abduct Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, Trump wandered into a rambling disquisition on the success of American troops patrolling the streets of American cities.

"I just have to congratulate our military," he said, name checking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "The job that they've done, whether it's in Washington, D.C., where we have a totally safe city where it was one of the most unsafe cities anywhere in the world, frankly, and now we have no crime in Washington, D.C."