By Paige Laver
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Former President Donald Trump recently accused San Francisco officials and the other Democratic Party strongholds of failing to resolve the theft problems that are happening in the city.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin shot back that Trump—whom he called the “instigator of the Capitol smash and grab”—should “stay out of SF politics.”
In a report on his political fundraising site Save America, Trump said, “Such a thing has never happened in our country,” referring to the mass robberies that are occurring all around the country, but primarily impacting the state of California.
He then asked the National Guard to help with bringing an end to the robberies.
San Francisco’s Louis Vuitton store in Union Square is one of the stores targeted by bold robbers this month, with video footage showing people 
smashing the windows of the retail store and grabbing merchandise.
The “smash and grab” video has caught the attention of the media and many residents are concerned about shopping and their own safety in the areas where theft has taken place.
The recent November rampage followed similar crimes at Nordstrom in Walnut Creek and the Hayward and San Jose malls. High-end malls in Southern California have reported burglaries, as well as stores in Chicago and New York.
Since the November robberies in Union Square, San Francisco has stepped up the police presence in the well-known grocery shopping district.
Trump’s statement on Save America said, “ If Democrats don’t immediately stop smash- and- grab robberies, which are taking place in their cities, the National Guard must be called out. There has never been such a thing that has happened in our country. Large numbers of stores are leaving San Francisco and other cities. Some chains are closing most of their stores, it is all not even believable.”
San Francisco DA Boudin, who filed criminal charges against nine people involved in the robberies, took to Twitter to criticize the former president’s comments and his technique for bringing justice, charging Trump’s policies on “criminal justice has proven to be unjust, corrupt, and ineffective.”
Boudin added, “The instigator of the Capitol smash and grab should stay out of SF politics. The instigator of the ruin and hoarding of the Capital remains outside SF’s policy.”
What does that even mean?
I really don’t think Boudin making his recall election about the GOP andTrump is going to help. If anything it brings even more attention to the recent smash and grabs and boarded up businesses in S.F.
While I think your second point is right, neither is Trump weighing in.
And here lies part of the problem with Progressive DA’s and reform, where they catch the smash and grabbers and they’re already back out on the streets:
You think a retail theft case means no bail? that’s not not how bail is supposed to work.
What are you saying here?
According to the article all 14 are back out in the streets, some with no bail.
And some bailed out. You can’t hold people for this kind of crime without bail.
Did you miss this part of the article?
I know. It doesn’t change my opinion on the matter.
“Hmm. Trump bad man. Me vote for Boudin”.
You summed up the thinking process of way too many. The unfortunate thing – in a town like San Francisco, it works. The simple-minded are so easily lead by their tribe.
“He then asked the National Guard to help with bringing an end to the robberies.”
What is he saying? Is he saying he is still President and calling out the National Guard? Does he think the National Guard can call itself out? His statement is absurd to anyone who isn’t fooled by him all the time.
“According to the article all 14 are back out in the streets, some with no bail.”
Maybe if the prison guards would all get vaccinated we could relax the protocols and hold the accused perps longer.
Ron G has a point: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2021-12-02/san-diego-sheriff-orders-lockdown-inside-all-jails-amid-surge-in-covid-19-infections
Aren’t you a primary proponent of decarceration?
https://www.sierranevadaally.org/2021/08/18/susanville-attempts-to-forestall-the-closure-of-the-california-correctional-center/#:~:text=On%20April%2013%20of%20this,Susanville%20by%20June%2030%2C%202022.&text=According%20to%20the%20CDCR%2C%20the,annual%20savings%20of%20%24122%20million.
I guess y’all still haven’t figured out that Trump purposefully trolls the left in his speeches. He sometimes has even made an outrageous statement and immediately stated that he was doing it to troll the leftist media by saying, “wait until you hear the outrage when they print THAT as the headline tomorrow”.
What scares me isn’t that he is going to call out the National Guard, it’s that this sort of behavior makes me think he ramping up for another presidential bid.
The smash and grabs are a natural result of Trumpist destruction of social norms like so much of other anti-social behavior we witness on a daily basis. It’s the new norm that replaces the old norm of not looting a store that I have followed all my life.
LOL, it’s all Trump’s fault even though he’s been out of office for over a year. You don’t think it might be the Progressive justice reforms and Progressive DA’s where thieves know they won’t face much in the way of consequences for their actions do you? You don’t think thieves have become embolden in this era of anything goes created by Democrat policies do you? Nah, it’s easier to blame it on Trump.
“Trump bad. Me ransack Louis Vuitton in response.”
Hahahahaha . . . like an example placed on a hot plate for consumption for my 11:40am comment above.
A thoughtful analysis from NYT lays the blame at the feet (1) emboldened criminals resulting from the lack of consequences for violent protest last summer and (2) the ease of selling the stolen goods on Amazon, ebay etc.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/business/retailers-robberies-theft.html