Soros district attorney previously let congressional staff attacker go free
Conn Carroll
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The man who sent two congressional staffers to the hospital after beating them with a baseball bat Monday, Xuan Kha Tran Pham, was no stranger to Fairfax County law enforcement.
Pham was arrested in January 2022 for attacking a Fairfax County law enforcement officer with a stun gun but was then released and had his charges dropped by Soros-funded Fairfax County District Attorney Steve Descano.
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On Monday, Pham entered the district office of Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) on Main Street in Fairfax, asked to speak to Connolly, and proceeded to beat two staff members with a metal baseball bat after being told Connolly was not in the office.
“Gotta ask Gerry Connolly if he regrets this endorsement?” Virginians for Safe Communities tweeted after flagging Pham’s criminal history.
First elected in 2019 thanks to generous funding from criminal advocate George Soros, Descano has relentlessly pursued soft-on-crime policies. Since then, the murder rate in Fairfax County has doubled, and multiple career prosecutors have quit the district attorney’s office.
Pham is not the first violent criminal Descano has freed who has gone on to harm innocent people. After Gerald Brevard III was arrested by Fairfax police for attempting to kidnap a woman, a crime that should have put Brevard away for 26 years, Descano charged him with lesser crimes and released him from prison just months later. Brevard went on to murder multiple homeless people in New York and Washington, D.C.
Descano’s office said he decided to let Pham go free because “the original incident stemmed from a mental health crisis” and the defendant agreed to enter into treatment. And it is admirable that Descano tried to get Pham help.
But the people of Fairfax County also have a right to be safe from people like Pham. Incarceration is often the best way to keep violent offenders from hurting innocent people again.
Descano is up for reelection this November. We’ll see if Fairfax residents believe Descano is doing all that is needed to keep them safe.