Without any announcement of his candidacy, Trump continued his re-election campaign to be the one and only President of these United States for these times in a speech in Washington, D.C.

Yesterday, former President Donald J. Trump dedicated much of his speech at the AFPI’s America First Agenda Summit to one of the main issues facing voters and their families in each and every community in every state in our union

During his address, Trump said public safety is one of the “core issues” facing the whole country  ---  specifically saying:  “There is no higher priority than cleaning up our streets, controlling our borders, stopping the drugs from pouring in, and quickly restoring law and order....”  

... And it's very much because we have allowed the Democrats to be in control of things in what have become the most terrible and dangerous parts of the country  

According to Trump  ---   fixing the problem will start with the next Congress and would continue on to the next Republican president  --- “We need an all-out effort to defeat violent crime in America and strongly defeat it and be tough and be nasty.”

The mainstream media that reported on Trump's speech immediately characterized Trumps anti-crime agenda as "HARSH !!!"  ---  but that was only after their stories' leads saying that Trump was still falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen

Trump didn't mince his words speaking in Washington in a virtual D.C. shootout with former VP Mike Pence.  

The once and future President of the United States declared that the country's survival was at stake in a speech that had been billed as one focused on public safety.  In it Trump said the country was in imminent danger from crime. Among his public safety agenda items, Trump called for strong support of local police, executing drug dealers, sending the homeless to encampments on the outskirts of towns and cities, and finishing his expanded Southwest border wall.

Here is some more of what President Trump said in his own words:   

“.... [Under] Democrat rule, in Democrat-run cities, Democrat-run states, and a Democrat-run federal government, the criminals have been given free rein more than ever before....  There’s never been a time like this. Our streets are riddled with needles and soaked with the blood of innocent victims....  [O]nce great cities” where the middle class used to flock, such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, are now crime-ridden warzones....  Every day, there are stabbings, rapes, murders, and violent assaults....  Bloody turf wars rage [and] parents are worried sick that their kids will get shot on the way to school....”

Then Trump zeroed in on the Democrats:  “We’re living in such a different country....  Our country is now a cesspool of crime. We have blood, death, and suffering on a scale once unthinkable because of the Democrat Party’s effort to destroy and dismantle law enforcement all throughout America. It has to stop, and it has to stop now....” 

The former president then described some specific recent violent incidents, and he recounted how criminals are now being arrested and released more than dozens of times; and that he could go on with these stories for months and years, because so many cases of crime now happen to innocent Americans all the time.

In summation. the undeclared candidate for President in 2024 declared  ---  “We owe it to the victims, we owe it to our families, and we owe it to our country to do the right thing....  [fixing the problem would all start with the next Congress and would continue] on to the next Republican president....  We need an all-out effort to defeat violent crime in America and strongly defeat it and be tough and be nasty....”