At President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao recounted how she was robbed at gunpoint and assaulted with the handgun outside her Washington apartment in January of 2023.
Iris Tao, NTD's White House correspondent, speaks after President Donald Trump asked her to share her personal story about being robbed and assaulted at gunpoint in Washington in 2023, during a cabinet meeting at the White House, on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Aug. 26, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
During the Cabinet meeting, Trump asked Tao to talk about how she had been the victim of a mugging in Washington.
"I heard you were very savagely mugged in the city," Trump said, adding that his administration will not allow such crimes to continue to occur in the nation's capital.
You can read Iris Tao's full story here.