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“Crime / Criminal” said in 235 of 565 transcripts, 1,339 times.
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Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 2 times
…operations in American history, apprehending the outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro for his crimes against the United States—crimes for which he has now been indicted…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 4 times
…Two percent, 3 percent of the population causes 90 percent of the crime. Think of it. Two percent of the population in Washington, DC, causes…
…would either. Even though, you know, we took out all—so many criminals, I just feel better. To me, they're beautiful. I look at these…
…safe. I don't think if we took them out—even if the crime wasn't much, it would definitely be more. We did a great job…
Jan 4, 2026 Other 5 times
…Governor that they have that doesn't want—you know, we brought down crime by 25 percent. He didn't do anything. He's not doing anything, but…
…in at the appropriate time, but we're the ones that brought the crime down. We brought it down 20 percent. They didn't bring it down…
…Do you know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime? Do you know that? But we pulled it out. We had a…
Jan 3, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump holds press conference on Venezuela 10 times
…suffer anymore. The illegitimate dictator, Maduro, was the kingpin of a vast criminal network responsible for trafficking colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs into…
…or Florida. But we have people where the overwhelming evidence of their crimes will be presented in a court of law. And I've seen it…
…unsafe cities anywhere in the world, frankly, and now we have no crime in Washington, DC. We haven't had a killing. We had the terrorist…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 1 time
…of people, millions of people into our open border. They sent their criminals. They sent their prisoners. They sent their drug dealers. They sent their…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 7 times
…want him. He doesn't represent you. You just—and look at the crime. Look at what's going on with all the crime here, the slitting…
…her throat. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels, the worst trade deals ever made, and our country…
…has gone to American-born citizens. The migrant invasion also brought massive crime. What's happening with the killings in North Carolina is indescribable. I mean…
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 3 times
…happen again. We had men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels, with "law enforcement" and words such as that just…
…was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all, foreign nations, which took advantage…
…a few short months, we went from worst to best. We're deporting criminals, restoring safety to our most dangerous cities. Just take a look at…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 3 times
…4 years before I took office, our southern border was surrendered to criminals, drug cartels, human traffickers, and child smugglers. Our entire Southwest border on…
…people look like babies. These are some of the worst—most violent criminals anywhere on Earth—from many countries, not just Venezuela. Venezuela emptied their…
…and a pathetic man who was run by Tren de Aragua. The criminals from Venezuela took over sections of Colorado, and he was afraid to…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Congressional Ball 2 times
…things we just passed. You passed the Laken Riley Act to get criminal aliens off the streets so they don't kill our people, hurt our…
…which is what they did. They're not doing it so much, because crime is way down. And you passed the GENIUS Act to unleash a…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…know, Washington, DC, is safe, and Memphis is now—look at Memphis. Crime is down 60 percent in Memphis. We just got there 3 weeks…
…New Orleans was—we just sent a group of people there, and crime is down 28 percent in about 3 days. No, we do a…
…don't take any nonsense. And every place we go, we knock down crime. Too bad that we're not invited more into Chicago, because we could…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 4 times
…we had a year and a half ago? Right? What a different—— Crime—you know, crime is way down, despite the fact that we have…
…what you did. We had a border that was so bad. Everybody—criminals—everybody pouring into our country. Anybody—you know, they—the Congo. I…
…Somalia. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. The only thing they're good at is going after ships. But they…
Dec 8, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds roundtable meeting 1 time
…country and so many, and not even mentioning the border and the criminals allowed into our country and all of the others. So I just…
Dec 7, 2025 Other 1 time
…good condition. Now it's in very good condition. And, as you know, crime has been brought down to a level that nobody's ever seen here…
Dec 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Honors Medal Dinner 7 times
…months, and now we're setting records for safety. We've had virtually no crime. We had terrorism 2 weeks ago, week and a half ago. Horrible…
…a lot of opposition there with these people. They want to have crime. I mean, it's the craziest thing. Chicago. But we've brought down crime…
…and do it exactly the way we want. We won't have any crime, and we'll have very little crime in Chicago. Almost none. We'll stop…
Dec 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: National Christmas Tree Lighting 1 time
…here in Washington, DC, where we've set a record for lack of crime in 28 years. So I just want to say we have a…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 1 time
…was, and those people are guilty, in my opinion, of a major crime. Everything that was signed by that autopen—he—the man operating the…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 2 times
…by allowing 25 million people into our country, many of whom are criminals, many of whom—11,888 are murderers, and we have to get…
…Washington, DC, is now considered a very, very safe city. We had crime numbers a year ago that were so bad—embarrassment that the city…
Nov 30, 2025 Other 2 times
…they are third world. They are not good countries. They are very crime-ridden countries. They are countries that don't do a good job. They…
…shouldn't be here? Well, we'll see. I mean, yes, if we have criminals that came into our country and they were naturalized, maybe through Biden…
Nov 27, 2025 Other Kalshi: Trump calls service members on Thanksgiving 8 times
…was the safest place imaginable. And this is a different kind of crime. This is a really bad crime. Millions of Americans are praying for…
…We—as you know, we're sending 500 more. We had very little crime in Washington now for, you know, many months—record-setting low crime…
…so effective. You know, you went from having a tremendous amount of crime—and death, killing, everything else—to having none. And this happened, I…
Nov 25, 2025 Other 2 times
…safe. The restaurants are booming. The place is booming. We have no crime. And we did that all in a period of 3 or 4…
…The one that is really troubling is what's happening in Chicago. The crime—it's a potentially great city again, but the Governor has totally lost…
Nov 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Presidential Turkey Pardon 11 times
…stay right up here. But as you know, we're a tough-on-crime administration. We are tough on crime. You know, our border had zero…
…now a totally safe city, and a year ago, it was a crime, criminal mess. We removed, Pam, 1,700 people—career criminals and people…
…in Memphis, Tennessee, where you had an even worse situation, and Memphis crime is down 64 percent in 3 weeks. And by the time you…
Nov 21, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zohran Mamdani 5 times
…respond to any of those? Yes. What we did is, we discussed crime more than ICE, per se. We discussed crime. And he doesn't want…
…a meeting today that actually surprised me. He wants to see no crime. He wants to see housing being built. He wants to see rents…
Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 5 times
…in the case of California, you have a problem. You have high crime, and you have a place that just suffered great fires and everything…
…a very good job. And if we didn't go in, from the crime standpoint, you would have had a disaster. It would have been—it…
…Los Angeles. If we think they're going to—there's going to be crime, if we are obstructed by the Governor—and maybe he won't obstruct…
Nov 13, 2025 Tele-rally 2 times
…children. She wants to defund the police. And she has referred to crime as, quote, "a way for people to express themselves." That's a beauty…
…fringe Marxist agenda would be a catastrophe for years to come, allowing crime and allowing open borders. She's very big on open borders, let people…
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 8 times
…him do. He's run a really great country. And he's got no crime, he's got no problems, like some countries do, but probably has a…
…flooding Europe all over the place, and it's hurting it. It's—the crime rates are way up. A lot of bad things are happening. He…
…low. They're the same as they always were, which is very little crime, because he's kept it the way it should be. Europe—I mean…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 4 times
…York does well. That's all. ICE raids? Well, you want to get criminals out. If they're criminals, we want to get them out. Ideally, we…
…himself. But that seems to be unlikely. No, we have to get criminals out. You know, millions of people were let into our country from…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 3 times
…families, and that's what we're delivering. You see that. They stand for crime and chaos and corruption. We stand for law and order and justice…
…I have to—you have to know that. We just don't want criminals coming in. We don't want people from prisons. We don't want prisons…
…into our country. We're liberating our cities from the scourge of violent crime, making our country safe and beautiful again. We're starting in our Capital…
Nov 3, 2025 Tele-rally Kalshi: Trump joins NJ Tele-Rally 5 times
…well for the law-abiding citizens of your State. He is very crime-oriented to stop crime, much more so than almost all politicians, because…
…the State, he's endorsed by. And get the illegal aliens and the criminals and gang members and people from mental institutions that were dropped into…
…a border that allowed 25 million people in—many of them absolute criminals, drug dealers, drug addicts, the people from mental institutions. They emptied their…
Nov 3, 2025 Tele-rally Kalshi: Trump joins VA Tele-Rally 10 times
…And he is my complete and total endorsement. During Jason's term, violent crime in Virginia has declined by 13 percent, and we have to give…
…is talking about it. People are going to restaurants. They're dining. The crime is down to practically nothing. And within another couple of weeks, it…
…race are the—supporting something called "no-cash bail." And you know, crime in our country really started with the no-cash bail. They support…
Oct 29, 2025 Other 3 times
…And already, it's down to less than 50 percent. A lot of criminals—career criminals, people that came in illegally—have been brought back to…
…And within 2, 3 weeks, it will be down to almost no crime. Now, we're taking a lot of bad people out. We're incarcerating some…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 4 times
…killing mess. People getting killed all the time. It was very high crime. And we sent in our National Guard—again, great people. And I…
…very safe—it took 12 days. We got 1,700 people—career criminals, many of which came in through Biden's open border, and they infiltrated…
…walk right in through the middle, nobody's going to touch them. The crime is down to almost nothing. It's a whole different ball game. It…
Oct 27, 2025 Other 1 time
…here if they came in illegally, but we have to get the criminals out. Washington, DC, is doing great. Memphis is starting to do great…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 18 times
…deal with. These are in addition to the massive numbers of dangerous criminals my administration arrested nationwide since January 20, numbering over 120,000. It's…
…they were—just what happened, assisted by the most dangerous and violent criminal organizations anywhere on the planet. The worst people on the planet they…
…in this country, to a totally safe city. It's a—nothing is crime free, I guess, but this is about as close to crime-free…
Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 1 time
…back to their normal practice of weakness, of not taking care of criminals—meaning taking care of putting them in jails where they should be…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 6 times
…history. And you passed the Laken Riley Act to throw illegal alien criminals out of our country. You passed the GENIUS Act and the TAKE…
…Governor. I said, "I wonder how he's going to do." It's a crime palace. It's a shame. And, you know, what we did in DC…
…sorry, sir, your son has been shot and killed." We have no crime here now. We have no crime. And the National Guard has been…
Oct 19, 2025 Other 9 times
…that's what we provide. We have tremendous numbers also. You see the crime numbers are coming way down. Way down. Then you take a look…
…the worst cities, most dangerous cities. We moved out 1,700 career criminals and people that came here through Biden and his open border policy…
…again. It can only be a great city if it doesn't have crime. If it has crime, it can't be a great city. They don't…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 1 time
…for the city, because we're so proud of what we've done with crime. This is a very safe city now. This went from a very…
Oct 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 33 times
…great. Took out 1,700 people. Got them out. These are career criminals in many cases and people that shouldn't have been allowed in by…
…Biden administration. Historically, the summer months have been a time when violent crimes soar, as you know, but not under President Trump. Today we're announcing…
…past few months, FBI officers in all 50 States made crushing violent crime a top enforcement priority—that's what they did—rounding up and arresting…
Oct 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Medal of Freedom Ceremony for Charlie Kirk 8 times
…days to make it great. We took out, Pam, 1,700 hard criminals—career criminals, in many cases—but these are hardened criminals. Many of…
…about 3 miles away. That's great. What a beautiful sound. They're stopping crime. That's what they're doing. So we're done with the voices of fools…
…sent people in there 6 months ago, and this Governor said, "Well, crime is down." Yes, that's because we had the FBI in there for…
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 4 times
…great cities, because we'll make that great. We will clean up the crime in about 30 days. Took 12 days to do Washington, DC, so…
…from the political leaders. They said, "Please come in and clean up crime." And we love it. We've—in 1 week, Memphis is so good…
…WE have worse. What they do very well is they send their criminals into the United States, and they send Tren de Aragua—that you…
Oct 14, 2025 Other 13 times
…You were very nice today. Go ahead. Well, they're very strong on crime. Like, you wouldn't believe how strong, but they are very strong. But…
…They don't have the violent crime—they may have other kinds of crime, but their violent crime—you can actually walk down a park and…
…be stronger and tougher and not allow us to have record-breaking crime in Chicago and different places. I want them to admit they have…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…was appropriate. And you are a great leader. You have very little crime. You have problems that other countries don't have, and of course, nothing…
Oct 13, 2025 Meeting 9 times
A powerful man. Very powerful. No crime. They have no crime. You put it out before it starts. Thank you very much. Would you want…
…both. And they've done a fantastic job. And they have very little crime, you know, because they don't play games. That's why. They don't play…
…Governors that have no idea what they're doing. But they don't have crime. I ask about crime, and they almost don't even know what I'm…
Oct 12, 2025 Other 1 time
…we are having them watch that there's not going to be big crime or some of the problems that you have when you have areas…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 5 times
…some leader. Thank you very much. Great job. Thank you. Yes, please. Criminals—they're arresting criminals. That's right. Yes, go ahead. I'm happy about it…
…look at DC, and now we're in Memphis, and Memphis was really crime-ridden. It was terrible. A lot of people being killed. And they…
…when I watch him trying to say that: "It's okay, we have crime under control. I lost 4,000 people over a very short period…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 18 times
…We moved out 1,700 people, approximately, right? Approximately 1,700 hardened criminals, career criminals. They—we moved them out. So Chuck Schumer and Hakeem…
…and the other thing I don't understand is—Kristi, I looked at crime numbers in Chicago; they're through the roof. And I have a Governor…
…a Democrat Governor, I'd be saying, "Whatever you can do to get crime down, I'll take anybody. You can bring them in any—I don't…
Oct 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Roundtable on ANTIFA 9 times
…police in cities nationwide, and they have attacked journalists reporting on their crimes. So the journalists that report on their crimes. Don't worry. You're very…
…they left you alone. Under the Trump administration, we're going after antifa criminals. And all who fund and support their campaigns are in serious trouble…
…they—once they said: "We don't care who comes. Just stop the crime." They don't care. Frankly, they don't care if it's National Guard, military…
Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 7 times
…at Chicago, Chicago is a great city where there's a lot of crime. And if the Governor can't do the job, we'll do the job…
…could walk right down the middle of the street. There is no crime in DC. When I got here, this place was a raging hellhole…
…removing many people. In DC, we took out seventeen—1,7000 career criminals and sent them back to the countries from which they came. Mostly…
Oct 6, 2025 Tele-rally 4 times
…help us keep them that way. No illegal migrants and keeping the criminals, cartels, and gang members out of our country. Matt will support our…
…our Nation's Capital, District of Columbia—was a disaster. It was a crime-ridden disaster. And I sent in the National Guard, and now it's…
…destroyed it. But Matt is somebody that's going to keep those career criminals out of the various places. Right now we're in Memphis. We're going…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…a lot of different places, and they probably marvel at how much crime we have. Then you go to Memphis, where we are right now…
…else. Because I think that's all insurrection. I really think that's really criminal insurrection. So I appreciate the question. These are unsafe places. We're going…
…to make Chicago really great again, and we're going to stop this crime. Then we're going to go to another one, and we're going to…