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Morning Brief 2023-05-16

May 16, 2023
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Sean Davis
TOPIC: The latest revelation from John Durham is another example of why the FBI needs to be defunded.

1 Samuel 16:7

Biden Crime Family...

IRS reportedly fires entire group of investigators probing Hunter Biden, whistleblower accuses admin of retaliation
The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against a whistleblower who alleged a cover-up, the NY Post has learned.

Corruption Of President Biden -- And Of The Justice Department, And Of The Media
Little by little we learn more details about our current president accepting large amounts of money from multiple foreign countries, one of which is our most significant geopolitical adversary.

Durham Report...

Biden was briefed on Clinton involvement in Trump-Russia hoax
Joe Biden was made aware of the Clinton campaign's plans to insinuate a relationship between the Russian government and the Trump campaign while serving as vice president, the Durham report revealed.

FBI Offered To Pay Steele $1M For Anti-Trump Evidence, Paid Possible Russian Spy Despite Knowing His Info Was Bad
The FBI had evidence that Danchenko was a Russian spy, and Danchenko could provide no evidence that Trump was tied to Russia. It paid Danchenko anyway to try to mount a flimsy case against Trump, the Durham report found.

Obama Admin Had No ‘Actual Evidence’ Of Collusion By Trump When It Launched Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
The Obama administration possessed no real evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russian government officials when it launched its investigation into the Trump campaign leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new bombshell report.

NY Times: In Final Report, Trump-Era Special Counsel Denounces Russia Investigation
The report did not produce the kinds of blockbuster revelations accusing the bureau of politically motivated misconduct that Trump and his allies suggested would be uncovered.

Politico: Takeaways from the Durham report on the Trump-Russia probe
The report often sounds more like an inspector general inquiry in search of waste, fraud, and abuse that may not rise to the level of criminality. However, it lacks some of the checks often employed in that process.

Newsweek: Durham's Trump-Russia Report Is Another Black Eye for the FBI
The long-awaited report on the FBI's probe into Trump's ties to Russia sided with the former president and harshly criticized the law enforcement agency.

Fox News: Durham report: FBI displayed 'markedly different' treatment of Clinton, Trump campaigns
"Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report," the report said.

CNN: Takeaways from special counsel John Durham’s report on FBI’s Russia-Trump probe
The report does not ultimately fulfill the expectations set by former President Trump and his allies who have long claimed that it would prove the FBI’s investigation was nothing more than a political witch hunt.

Jake Tapper: Durham Report Is 'Devastating To FBI, And To A Degree, It Does Exonerate Donald Trump'
Tapper offers a simple first reaction to the release of the much-anticipated report about the origin of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation from special counsel John Durham.

Congrats To The US Intelligence Community, Back-To-Back US Presidential Election Interference Champs!
Now the question, is who is going to be charged and when? Of course, it seems that the answer to those questions is, to put it in layman’s terms, that there is not a chance in France that happens.

Jonathan Turley Demands Answers After Durham Report Exposes Schiff Lie
Adam Schiff falsely claimed he had seen evidence that he couldn’t share with us demonstrating Russia collusion.

Trump says there 'must be a heavy price to pay' for Comey, Democrats after release of Durham report
Durham's report found DOJ, FBI 'failed to uphold' mission of 'strict fidelity to the law' in Trump-Russia probe.

DeSantis Blasts Feds Over Durham Trump-Russia Report
“It reminds us of the need to clean house at these agencies, as they’ve never been held accountable for this egregious abuse of power.”

Domestic News...

Time for Republicans to Confront January 6 Lead Prosecutor
The Biden regime’s double standard of justice runs right through Matthew Graves’ office.

The FBI's 'abuse of power'
Three whistleblowers will lay out how bureau "inflated domestic extremism" stats and prioritized January 6 defendants over child predators in bombshell hearing.

Amid attacks on lawmakers, Capitol Police chief says force now nationwide 'protective agency'
The department's budget has more than doubled since 2015

J6 Attorney Says Feds Using Military Counterterrorism Tactics Against Americans
Attorney Carol Stewart is also a retired U.S. Army colonel who worked in intelligence.

America’s Powerful Intellectual Class Finds ‘Joy in Making Us Obey and Be Compliant,’ Warns Scholar
The so-called experts "infantilize" the American public through deciding what gets to be seen and what’s censored.

Simplify the Tax Code Instead of Creating an IRS Rival to TurboTax
Americans collectively spend billions of hours each year preparing their taxes. Rather than adding a government-run website into the mix, politicians should just simplify the tax code.

The Left Continues Its Infiltration of the Legal Profession
In many states, the left has taken control of the legal profession, and one aspect of that is found in mandates that attorneys devote some of their Continuing Legal Education time to, what else, “diversity.”

Florida Researchers Collect Human DNA In Air While Studying Sea Turtles
Suggests new discovery could help solve criminal activity.

Antifa Targets 'Babies Lives Matter' Rally
Antifa members like to pretend that they are noble and are somehow “fighting fascists.” But just what “fascists” were they fighting when they targeted the “Babies Lives Matter” rally in Santa Monica on Saturday?

Texas police seized man's life savings. Now the state is putting his cash on trial
Ameal Woods saved more than $40K to expand trucking business.

Man’s hand chopped off in sword attack on California street
Both the victim and the attacker are homeless, and the sword attack may have stemmed from a “recent and ongoing dispute.”

Miller Lite's feminist ad from March goes viral amid Bud Light backlash
An ad from March went viral on Monday as conservatives blasted the video as woke, with many drawing parallels to Bud Light’s current marketing controversy.

Politics...

Senate Republicans Demand Biden Forfeit Info Regarding His Attempt To Federally Interfere In US Elections
13 Senate Republicans sent a letter to Biden requesting that his administration forfeit documents related to Executive Order 14019, which required hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in the electoral process.

RNC Launches New Year-Round Election Integrity Department Ahead Of 2024
The new internal infrastructure will bring on year-round staff operating new technology designed to facilitate recruitment and litigation.

Economy / ESG...

Americans’ debt surpasses $17 trillion for the first time
Americans’ debt levels continue to climb to new heights at a time when economic conditions are becoming increasingly less stable.

A Historic Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Institutional investors like us are the last line of defense against proxies pushing political agendas.

ETF Issuers Are Losing Tolerance for ESG as Closures Surge
Just 58 sustainable exchange-traded funds launched globally in the first quarter of 2023, a far cry from the 101 funds that were introduced during the same period last year.

Dollar Weaponization Expands: FDIC Message to Foreign Depositors Is Don't Trust the US
The weaponization of the U.S. dollar by U.S. agencies continues with a ruling by the FDIC.

Claim: Make No Mistake, This Is The Beginning Of CBDC
A video purports to show the U.N.'s director of "Better than Cash Alliance" Ruth Green saying they give big industry "membership incentives" and make it a "condition" that they go "cashless."

Immigration...

Sanctuary city supporters outraged as 6 more NYC schools house illegal aliens
"To bus people to our school and expect the community to absorb them is just insane. ... We care about asylum-seekers, and we’re proud our city is a ‘sanctuary city’ — but housing asylum-seekers on school grounds is absolutely unacceptable."

Illegal immigrant beheads girlfriend
An illegal immigrant from Cuba has been convicted of first-degree murder for beheading his girlfriend with a machete in Minnesota after striking her with a dumbbell inside a car.

WAR News... 

MSNBC Opinion: Zelensky has a bigger and more alarming appetite for risk than we thought
Zelensky has proposed risky plans that could trigger a U.S.-Russia war.

Iron Dome ready for deployment in Ukraine, says US general
Ukraine slams Israeli Foreign Ministry for sending high-level reps to Moscow: “Neutrality is not an option.”

Belarus on high alert after 'four aircraft shot down' over Russia
Lukashenko's reported visit to the base was his first public appearance in almost a week, following speculation over the health of the 68-year-old leader.

F-16s Will Be Focus Of Ukrainian Pilot Training In UK
This summer, the United Kingdom will start training Ukrainian pilots to get them ready for future F-16 fighter jet deliveries.

COVID-19...

The unvaccinated deserve death: A retrospective
The average American just wants the COVID era over. They are willing to forgive if it means they can forget. This is a huge mistake and exactly what the elite want us to do.

Dr. Mike Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer, on how to defeat the tyranny we're facing
"I've given the last three years of my life to warn people this is what's coming. But I can't save you; only you can do it."

Commie Update...

Toronto 'anti-capitalist' cafe fails miserably
Despite stating, "I hate how everything in specialty coffee is so inaccessible to working class people, and inhospitable to everyone but the white upper middle class," Sims-Fewer acknowledged on his website that he had to keep prices high enough for him to keep the business open.

Entertainment...

Cable TV has fewest subscribers since 1992
YouTube TV is the only riser.

Martha Stewart Lands Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover At 81
According to ChatGPT, she becomes the first convicted felon to ever make the cover.

Kim Petras Is Second Trans Model on Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover
If the idea of seeing an 81-year old Martha Stewart in a bikini doesn't do it for you, maybe this will.

Netflix’s Black Cleopatra Has Lowest Audience Score In Rotten Tomatoes History
Here’s a look at its competition for lowest score ever ...

Europe...

Brits warned food inflation will be 'normal state of affairs' due to climate crisis
Food inflation will become a "normal state of affairs" for Brits due to the worsening climate shocks, experts have warned.

Environment...

To save the planet, I don’t use toilet paper
“Consumption of toilet paper fuels deforestation and massive usage of fossil fuels in transportation,” Greenfield said. “So the message to grow our own at home and find alternatives to consumerism has never been more relevant.”

South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions
Regular breakdowns of the coal-fired power plants that supply more than 80% of South Africa’s electricity mean that less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere.

CBS segment pushes insects as 'low-carbon solution to feed animals and the world's population'
"We all know how important insects are for the environment, but climate researchers say bugs could be a game-changer in the fight to protect the planet in ways you may not have imagined."

LGBTQIA2S+...

Gender identity athletics rule 'literally impossible' to follow, encourages sex changes: Critics
Second Department of Education rulemaking on gender identity draws 130,000 comments, with some citing threat to free speech, religion. Feds drastically understate compliance costs, critics say.

WHO Pushes 'Early Childhood Masturbation' For Toddlers
Encourages questions about gender identity for kids age 4.

Education...

DeSantis Signs Bill Defunding Diversity Spending in State Schools
The legislation is part of a broader Republican effort across the country to target DEI programs.

Pornographic Books Found in Texas School Libraries Result in Bipartisan Action to Remove Them
HB 900 specifies what “sexual content” is and prescribes actions by Texas public schools to ensure children aren’t given access to pornographic, sexually explicit, or other age-inappropriate materials.

Florida 5th-grade teacher under investigation for showing Disney movie with gay character
Teacher said she showed the movie "Strange World" to her students because they were learning about earth and ecosystems.

Religion...

Satanic Ritual Attack? Exorcist, Cops Called After Decapitated Animals Dumped Outside Clinic
The leader of a crisis pregnancy center in Orlando believes his clinic was the victim of a potential Satanic ritual attack.

Americans’ ‘Health May be Undermined’ by Not Going to Church: Surgeon General
In a recent official government report, the Biden administration has warned that Americans’ “health may be undermined” due to their “decline in participation” in church services and other religious activities.

The jealous gods of the Rainbow Church tolerate no infidels
Public school teachers and other culture warriors on the left will insist that the symbols of their ascendant movement are just simple, unobjectionable statements of tolerance and love.

Technology...

2024 elections: AI deepfakes of Biden, Trump could mislead voters
The threat posed to elections by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or two away — but now it's here.

Musk Responds To Epstein Subpoena
"That cretin never advised me on anything whatsoever."

Start-Up Plans to Give Away 500,000 Free 4K TVs This Year. The Catch?
The sets have a second screen that constantly serves you ads.

Science...

Biden admin weighs keeping US Space Command headquarters in Colorado over Alabama’s abortion laws: Report
A prior review by the Biden Defense Department’s inspector general found the relocation "lawful" and "reasonable."

A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last 'Great Observatory'
"I think it would be pretty ambitious ... but really great if we could pull it off."

The plan to explode a nuclear bomb on the moon
In the 1950s, with the USSR seemingly sprinting ahead in the space race, U.S. scientists hatched a plan – nuke the surface of the Moon to frighten the Soviets.

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Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

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Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

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Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

Barbara Davidson / Contributor | Getty Images

In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

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Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.