Washington, D.C.’s violent crime wave is no longer just a statistic — it’s hitting national media personalities in broad daylight. ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips revealed Monday that she was mugged by a “half-dressed” homeless man just two blocks from the network’s downtown bureau, underscoring President Donald J. Trump’s warning that the nation’s capital needs a massive law-and-order overhaul.

Speaking during a segment on Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of soldiers and FBI agents to patrol D.C.’s streets at night, Phillips shared the personal reality behind the headlines.

“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,” Phillips said. “It was within the last two years that I actually was jumped walking just two blocks down from here.”

The veteran journalist also revealed that a colleague’s car was stolen just a block away — proof, she argued, that “crime is happening every single day because we’re all experiencing it firsthand, working and living down here.”

Phillips described her own assault as “scary as hell.” The attacker, she said, “was homeless and half-dressed — clearly wasn’t in his clear mind.” Believing she had no other choice, she fought back. “I didn’t see any weapons in his hands. I felt like it was my only choice,” she told U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

The mugging of a high-profile media figure adds to the growing pile of evidence that the left’s “soft-on-crime” policies have failed the nation’s capital. Even some liberal voices in the media are now admitting the city’s streets have become dangerous.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, hardly a Trump ally, slammed his Democrat friends who privately concede “Washington should have gotten involved years ago” but publicly attack Trump for taking action. “People have been calling me… saying, ‘This place is dangerous. It’s a mess. It’s a wreck,’” Scarborough recounted, noting that these same voices rush to social media to portray Trump’s crackdown as an “outrage.”

Scarborough, who has lived in and around D.C. for over three decades, said the danger is obvious. “I don’t care what the crime statistics say. Crime has been a problem in this city for the 32 years I’ve been living inside and outside of the city… Washington, D.C.? Man, it’s door-to-door. I don’t slow down. It’s very dangerous there.”

President Trump’s initiative to restore safety to the capital — including a surge of federal law enforcement — is already rattling the left. But with violent crime touching journalists, politicians, and ordinary citizens alike, even deep-blue Washington is being forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: without decisive action, America’s capital will remain a city where fear rules the streets.