D.C.’s top prosecutor highlighted a drop in crime and took questions on D.C. Council Member Trayon White’s upcoming trial at a wide-ranging press conference Tuesday.
Jeanine Pirro highlighted dozens of accomplishments of her office and said she’s looking forward to White’s case to go to trial this year. White is accused of taking bribes in exchange for securing city contracts.
“Oh, I can’t wait,” Pirro said.
“I expect a conviction,” she added. “I think the evidence is solid. I’ve seen the evidence. I don’t like individuals who work for government – whether it’s federal, state, local – and who use that as an opportunity to line their pockets. It’s unacceptable.”
News4 asked, should he be serving now on the council?
“That’s not up to me. That was up to the people. They made that decision,” Pirro said.
White has maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to the charge.
News4 asked Pirro about recent remarks by President Donald Trump in which he incorrectly said there had been no homicides in D.C. in months.
“Now we have no crime in Washington, D.C. We haven’t had a killing, haven’t had a killing. We had the terrorist attack a few weeks ago, a little bit of a different kind of a threat. But we haven’t had a killing in a long period of time – six, seven months. We used to have two, on average, two a week in Washington, our capital. We don’t have that anymore,” he said.
Pirro said: “No doubt, homicides and crime are significantly down.”
News4 asked what she would say to residents about the president’s misrepresentation of the stats.
“What I say to residents is thank goodness for the president, because if we didn’t have him, we wouldn’t have the ability to get crime and homicides down,” she said.
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