{"id":122731,"date":"2025-08-06T04:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122731\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:49:10","slug":"trump-threatens-federal-control-of-d-c-following-attack-on-administration-staffer-known-as-big-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122731\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens federal control of D.C. following attack on administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to have the federal government take control of Washington, D.C., after an assault on a well-known original staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> in the nation’s capital over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Edward Coristine, also known by his online name, \u201cBig Balls,\u201d and a woman characterized in a police report as his significant other were the victims of an unarmed attempted carjacking early Sunday.<\/p>\n

Washington Metropolitan Police on Tuesday announced the arrests of two 15-year-old suspects from Maryland.<\/p>\n

In a social media post that did not mention Coristine by name, Trump described crime in Washington as being \u201ctotally out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal \u2018youths\u2019 and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>, saying minors as young as 14 should be tried as adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf D.C. doesn\u2019t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they\u2019re not going to get away with it anymore,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Former DOGE head Elon Musk posted a screenshot of Trump\u2019s Truth Social post on X and echoed his call to have the federal government take control of Washington.<\/p>\n

Musk also referred to an unnamed DOGE staffer in his post.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC,\u201d Musk wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cA @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police report said the vehicle belonged to Coristine.<\/p>\n

The report added that police officers saw about 10 \u201cjuveniles\u201d surrounding the car and assaulting Coristine, which prompted the officers to get out of their vehicle and all but two of the juveniles, whom police arrested, to flee. Police said that in an interview, Coristine said he pushed the woman identified as his significant other into the car and \u201cturned to deal with the suspects,\u201d who in turn assaulted him.<\/p>\n

Police said the case is under investigation by the Carjacking Task Force, with multiple suspects outstanding.<\/p>\n

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, posted a video on X<\/a> on Tuesday saying she had just met with Trump to discuss \u201ccrime in the nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur job is to get guns off the street, drugs off the street, take care of those individuals who are threatening, carjacking other people, and make this city safe and clean again. And that\u2019s just what we\u2019re going to do. And if you don\u2019t buy into it, you\u2019re going to have to deal with us,\u201d Pirro said.<\/p>\n

She did not mention Coristine in her video.<\/p>\n

Despite Trump\u2019s claims of \u201cout of control\u201d violence in the city, violent crime is down 26% from last year, according to preliminary police figures. At the same time, the alleged attack on Coristine comes about a month after a 21-year-old congressional intern was caught in crossfire and fatally shot<\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously expressed<\/a> a desire to \u201cclean up\u201d the nation\u2019s capital and has threatened a federal takeover of the city, which already has limited ability to self-govern. Congress has the ability to rescind those powers at its and the president\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to have the federal government take control of Washington, D.C., after an assault…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-122731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114980019777399565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}