NTD Reporter Describes Being Mugged, Pistol-Whipped in DC at Trump Cabinet Meeting

At a White House cabinet meeting, a reporter with The Epoch Times’ sister media recounted getting robbed at gunpoint in the District of Columbia. Iris Tao, NTD’s White House correspondent, had been asked to share her story by President Donald Trump, who was highlighting concerns about crime in Washington. “I heard you were very savagely mugged in the city, and we are not going to let that happen under this administration,” Trump said on Aug. 26 as he introduced Tao. Tao then recalled how, on a Saturday morning in broad daylight two years ago, a man wearing a black ski mask pointed a gun at her face and demanded her phone, wallet, and laptop....