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White House Reporter Recounts Harrowing Story of How She Was Robbed at Gunpoint, Punched, and Pistol-Whipped in Broad Daylight in Washington, DC
NTD White House correspondent Iris Tao (Photo via Iris Tao)
Iris Tao, a 26-year-old White House reporter for Epoch Times sister outlet NTD revealed in a story on Wednesday that she, like many others, was a victim of a horrific, violent robbery in Washington, DC.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump declared a “public safety emergency,” citing high crime and unsafe streets in the nation’s capital, and federalized the DC police force last week. He further authorized the use of National Guard troops and deployed federal agents across the city to tackle the rampant crime, homelessness, and illegal immigration crises.
The then-24-year-old Iris Tao said the Trump Administration’s federal takeover and crackdown on crime in DC reminded her of the traumatizing morning in 2022, when she was violently mugged outside of her apartment at 8:30 in the morning. She was beaten and robbed by a masked man that morning.
But if you ask leftists and local Democratic leaders, they’ll say everything is ok now because violent crime in 2024 hit a 30-year low. However, as The Gateway Pundit reported, this data appears to have been falsified and manipulated at the direction of Metropolitan Police commander Michael Pulliam, an allegation which is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice. It has been alleged that many crimes go unreported, and serious felony reports have often been downgraded to make it appear that violent crimes and felonies are less frequent.
Iris says the numbers, whether real or fake, don’t matter because “lived experience tells a different story,” pointing to the thousands victimized by violent crime last year and the more than 100 DC homicides to date in 2025. “These are not just numbers. Each one is a person. A life cut short. A family changed forever,” Iris writes.
Because of this, Iris, expecting her first child to be born this year, does not plan to stay in Washington, DC, much longer— at least not until “both the numbers and the stories prove that the city has truly changed.”
Like most parents, she wants to give her child a hometown where “he can walk freely, play safely, and live without fear.”
“And I hope—someday—we can live that vision here in our nation’s capital: a clean, beautiful, and truly shining city on a hill once again,” she says.
Excerpt from the Epoch Times:
It was 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday in January 2022. I had just left my building near The Wharf in Southwest D.C. when a man in a black ski mask appeared out of nowhere, pointed a gun at my face, and demanded my phone.“Give me your phone,” he barked as he snatched it from my jacket pocket.
Then, with cold precision, he ordered me to hand over my wallet, laptop, and phone password.
Before fear even set in, instinct kicked in—not to protect my belongings, but to protect the sensitive information I carried. As a White House reporter for NTD Television, the sister outlet of The Epoch Times, I felt an overwhelming duty to safeguard my sources, colleagues, and loved ones.
“I can’t,” I said. “Don’t do this.”
He struck me across the face with the butt of his handgun.
My cheek went numb and flushed red.
“Help! Help!” I screamed as he ran off. A neighbor called the police. Later, an officer told me the assailant had fled into an apartment just a block away. They believed they knew who he was—but I never heard from them again.
I stayed surprisingly composed during the attack, but once I got back inside, the fear set in. He could have shot me. I could have died—just as my career was beginning. My parents and now-husband were hundreds of miles away.
Read the full story here.
But she’s not the only reporter who has been victimized.
Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn revealed during a recent press conference, where President Trump unveiled his plans to end the crime in Washington, DC, that he was previously robbed at gunpoint by a “teenage thug” in the nation’s capital.
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And several others, who report here at the White House, have also been impacted by Washington, DC’s third-world crime, despite the narrative they’re forced to push, claiming that DC is a safe place and that Trump’s actions are unwarranted.
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Politics
“They Stole $550 Million Dollars From Me” – Trump Celebrates Overturned Penalty in Letitia James’s “Fake” Civil Fraud Case
President Trump visits law enforcement and National Guardsmen at the United States Park Police Anacostia operations facility
As The Gateway Pundit reported, a New York Appeals Court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Trump on Thursday in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s case.
Trump: We’re having a lot of victories. I had a victory today, you know. They stole $550 million from me with a fake case, and it was overturned. They said this was a fake case. It’s a terrible thing, but that’s a nice victory, you know? I mean, it’s not bad, you know, we all have our limits, but this was a terrible thing they’ve done. It was a witch hunt. And I’ve had more witch hunts than any human being, I think, in history. And here we are, we’re the President of the United States. So, it didn’t work out too well for them, but maybe now it’s turned a little bit.
These are very dishonest people. We have to fight, and we have to win because we have to win. And you people are winners. And I just think it’s really it’s such an honor to be with you. And we’re going to make Washington DC great again. We’re making our country great again. The country is very close to being great. When they say it’s the hottest country in the world, they mean it, and this capital is right now, after four days, five days, it’s at a level that you haven’t seen in a long time, and it’s all because of you. So, I want to thank you all very much. It’s an honor to be with you, and we’ll always be with you. We’re going to be with you for as long as I’m around. You’re going to be treated like there’s nobody more important. And thank you all very much for being here.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Letitia James responded on Thursday by lashing out at Trump and saying she plans to appeal the decision.
Letitia James Lashes Out After NYC Appeals Court Drops $515+ Million Judgement in Civil Fraud Case – Goes After Trump AGAIN, Appeals Decision!
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Every employer that knowingly hires illegal aliens should be punished for their part in the destruction of our country.
The Gateway Pundit reported,
The Trump Administration has dropped the hammer on a reckless California trucking company that knowingly hired an illegal alien truck driver who went on to cause a deadly crash in Florida last week that claimed the lives of three innocent Americans.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that an illegal alien, who obtained his truck driving license (CDL) in the Democrat-run sanctuary state of California, killed three Americans after he made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway this week.
The driver, identified as Harjinder Singh, was arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide after he made an insane U-turn directly in front of a car to his left on Florida’s Turnpike.
The illegal alien showed zero emotion after he exited the 18-wheeler and examined what was left of the vehicle, a pile of mangled metal and three dead bodies.
They take good paying jobs away from Americans and give them to illegals. More importantly, employers that enable dangerous illegal aliens to get behind the wheel of 18-wheelers weighing as much as 80,000lbs or more are endangering the lives of everyone on America’s roads.
Our friends and family members should not have their lives placed at risk every time they want to go visit a friend or pick up groceries.
In addition to the deportation of the illegals, there must be consequences for those who continue to enable them.
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Politics
JUST IN: Biden-Appointed Judge Orders Release of ‘Teens’ Who Violently Attacked Ex-DOGE Employee Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls”
Judge Kendra Briggs / Wikimedia Commons
DC Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs, a Biden appointee, released two of the ‘teens’ who attacked former DOGE member Edward Coristine, AKA “Big Balls.”
Earlier this month, 19-year-old Edward Coristine was severely beaten in DC after he jumped into action to save his significant other’s life.
Trump posted a photo of Coristine after he was beaten bloody by the mob of teens. The President has since federalized DC to crack down on crime.
Edward Coristine AKA “Big Balls” beaten by DC thugs
A police report revealed more details about Edward Coristine’s heroic actions defending his girlfriend from a pack of 10 teens during an attempted carjacking early Sunday morning.
According to the police report, Coristine pushed his girlfriend into the car and shut the door to shield her from the approaching mob. The 19-year-old was assaulted by 10 juvenile thugs after he shielded his girlfriend.
The two unidentified 15-year-olds who were arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking were ordered released by the Biden judge.
Judge Briggs released one teen to a youth shelter and the other to his mother.
“The fact that this court is stepping you down from Youth Services Center is a serious step,” Judge Briggs told the teens during a hearing in DC Superior Court, according to The Washington Post.
The Washington Post reported:
Two teens charged in the attempted carjacking of a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer earlier this month will be moved into less restrictive detention on orders from a D.C. judge, despite a prosecutor’s objection.
The hearing took place as President Donald Trump’s D.C. police takeover stretches into its second week — an extraordinary flex of federal power ignited in part by the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a software engineer who began work in the federal government as a protégé of Elon Musk.
Police arrested the 15-year-old boy and girl from Maryland after the attempted carjacking in Northwest Washington. The teens were being held at the Youth Services Center, or YSC, a facility in D.C. that holds young offenders before and after their court hearings as they wait to be placed in rehabilitation centers.
The teens appeared Thursday in front of Judge Kendra D. Briggs in a hearing in D.C. Superior Court that shed little light on the alleged crime or those accused of committing it.
The girl will move to a youth shelter house, the boy to his mother’s home. Both will be subjected to, among other restrictions, electronic monitoring and a 24-hour curfew — “school and home, that’s it,” Briggs said.
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