Pam Bondi Roasted Over 'Bulls**t' Claim About D.C. Residents Thanking Federal Officers

The U.S. attorney general claimed Monday on Fox Business that locals are walking up to law enforcement on the street and "whispering" their gratitude.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Washington, D.C., residents are so grateful for the increased presence of federalized law enforcement that they’re personally approaching officers on the street and quietly “whispering” their thanks.

President Donald Trump invoked D.C.’s Home Rule Act last week to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department — despite the agency’s own data on violent crime showing a 26% drop this year — and deployed the National Guard to quell the supposed “bedlam” there. The controversial takeover sparked protests from residents.

“Listen, our law enforcement officers are telling us that people are coming up to them on the street,” Bondi told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Monday. “And they said a lot of people are walking by, whispering, saying, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’”

“They’re hearing stories every single night and day of people saying that they feel safe now to walk their own neighborhood where they live, because of what our great men and women of law enforcement are doing at the directive of the president,” Bondi continued.

The Trump administration scrapped D.C.’s “sanctuary” policies Thursday, enabling police to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi briefly instated Drug Enforcement Administration Chief Terry Cole as a new “emergency police commissioner.”