When President Donald Trump announced on Monday a federal crackdown on street crime in Washington, D.C., many Democrats and their media allies immediately and predictably launched a coordinated counternarrative to insist that crime rates were down, the city was generally safe, and Trump's "authoritarian" actions were unnecessary.

Yet, at least one prominent media figure decided to buck that narrative, as ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips shared live on air how she and many of her colleagues had been victimized by criminals in D.C. repeatedly, according to the New York Post.

The broadcast news anchor's honest telling of the situation in D.C., paired with credible allegations that D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department has been manipulating the purportedly decreased crime statistics, serves to vindicate the president's concerted efforts to make the nation's capital city safe for residents and visitors alike.

Crime in D.C. is "scary as hell"

During Monday's coverage of President Trump's announced crackdown on crime in D.C., "ABC News Live" anchor Phillips said, "I can tell you firsthand here in downtown D.C. where we work, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot, one person died, literally two blocks down here from the bureau."

"It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here," she continued. "And then, just this morning, one of my co-workers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau."

Referencing the insistent claims from Trump's critics that D.C. crime statistics were decreasing, Phillips added, "We can talk about the numbers going down, but crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing it firsthand, working and living down here."

Later in the program, while interviewing D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, Phillips recounted her own "scary" brush with the city's high crime and revealed, "So, I was jumped just two blocks here from the ABC bureau. It was not a minor, though," and noted that similar occurrences had "happened to a lot of people in our building, sadly."

"He was homeless and half-dressed -- clearly wasn’t in his clear mind," she recalled of her assailant. "It was scary as hell, I’m not going to lie, but I fought back. I didn’t see any weapons in his hands. I felt like it was my only choice."

Trump is taking action

President Trump announced that Monday was "Liberation Day" in Washington, D.C., as he unveiled an executive order declaring a crime emergency in the capital city and issued a memo that ordered a surge of federal law enforcement, imposed federal control over the Metro PD, and deployed D.C. National Guard troops to help restore law and order.

"We’re declaring a public safety emergency in the District of Columbia -- and Attorney General Pam Bondi is taking command of the Metropolitan Police Department as of this moment," Trump said, and noted, "They’ll immediately begin massive enforcement operations targeting known gangs, drug dealers, and criminal networks to get them the hell off the street."

He went on to point out the concerningly high rates for certain crimes, such as murders and carjackings, and added, "This dire public safety crisis stems directly from the abject failures of the city’s local leadership."

"Our nation’s capital is anything but safe"

The White House also released an alarming "fact sheet" to counter the Democrats' and media's narratives about the crackdown being unnecessary because crime rates were supposedly dropping, and asserted, "Unfortunately, while Fake News journalists and politicians go out of their way to claim otherwise, the reality is that our nation’s capital is anything but safe."

After running through many of the shocking numbers, the White House said, "These statistics are not only troubling on their own, but they also likely significantly understate the level of crime in Washington, D.C.," given the credible allegations that MPD leadership had been "cooking the books" to make those statistics "appear more favorable."

Indeed, just last month, a D.C. police commander was suspended for allegedly falsifying crime data, per the Post, and both President Trump and U.S. Attorney Pirro revealed that another reason for the purportedly lower crime rates was that local residents and visitors, whether out of fear of reprisal or cynicism over the lack of consequences, were no longer reporting many of the crimes that occur daily at all.