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Morning Brief 2023-06-29

June 29, 2023
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Alan Dershowitz
TOPIC: The questions Hunter Biden should be asked during his deposition.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: John Solomon
TOPIC: In 2019, John called a phone number that he received via leaked documents from Hunter Biden's laptop and Joe Biden ANSWERED.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Jaco Booyens
TOPIC: Modern-day slavery.

Malachi 1:1-4

Biden Crime Family...

Overseas payments to Biden family could exceed $40M
“This was organized crime. There’s no other way to define it,” Comer alleged.

IRS whistleblower says Hunter Biden received $8.3 million from overseas deals, says agents were not allowed to ask questions
"We weren't allowed to ask about the 'big guy,'" Shapley said.

Pressure grows on judge to reject Hunter Biden plea deal amid evidence of DOJ interference
"If I were the judge on the Hunter Biden case, I would refuse to accept the plea bargain," famed constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said.

Former Head Of DOJ Tax Division Urges Federal Judge To ‘Trash’ Hunter Biden Plea Deal
Eileen O’Connor, who ran the DOJ tax division from 2001 to 2007, published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday outlining why the plea agreement Hunter Biden struck with the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office ought to be dismissed.

Biden screams 'NO!!!!' at reporter who asks him about Hunter Biden 'Chinese shakedown text message'
Biden screamed at a reporter on Wednesday for asking whether he was involved in his son's business dealings.

Biden: Putin is ‘Clearly Losing the War in Iraq’
“He’s clearly losing the war in Iraq. He’s losing the war back home. He’s become a pariah around the world!”

Biden's Failure To Treat Sleep Apnea May Have Increased Risk of Dementia, Studies Show
President Joe Biden began using a CPAP machine "in recent weeks" to treat the sleep apnea. This was only revealed after after observers noticed an unusual indentation on his face and suggests the octogenarian president has put himself at increased risk of dementia and cognitive decline.

News...

DOJ Rot Goes So Much Deeper Than Merrick Garland
If agencies are so powerful that their work to protect political allies and topple their challengers continues unabated by the electoral process, then we are not a functioning republic.

Turley: Was Garland Lying? New York Times Confirms Weiss Was Blocked from Bringing Additional Charges
If Weiss was refused the ability to charge in two other jurisdictions, the key question is whether he did in fact ask for special counsel status. If so, Garland could be facing serious consequences, even an impeachment effort.

Accused child rapist pulled over for DUI with 6 kids in his car, claims they’re his ‘friends’
Newly resurfaced footage shows the disturbing DUI arrest of an alleged child rapist who had six young boys and girls in his car along with empty bottles of tequila and Fireball whiskey.

Serial killer fears stoked after at least 16 bodies pulled from Chicago waterways since 2022
Patterns have been noticed as the bodies have piled up, with five men’s bodies recovered in the last six months.

Homeless who poop in woman's yard, pee on her fence have upped the ante — with a box of live bees
A Denver homeowner said that homeless people who gather at a bus stop shelter adjacent to her property have been causing her a lot problems.

California woman gets only 2 years of prison time after fire-bombing bank in LA
In 2021, after having a dispute with the branch manager, Millet yelled she would "blow this b*tch up!" She left, then came back a few minutes later to throw a Molotov cocktail into the branch.

Would-be burglars thwarted by plexiglass
The victim offered up this easy solution to the crime spree. “Don’t let them back out. When they do get caught ... they’re back doing this two days later."

Politics...

NY Times: Biden Says He Is ‘Turning Things Around’ on the Economy
Biden began a concerted campaign to claim credit for what the White House describes as a record-breaking economic revival in America.

CNN: ‘Bidenomics’ is all about repelling Trump’s chaos theory
President Joe Biden often explains his simple theory of winning elections with his dad’s fabled kitchen table wisdom: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.”

WSJ: Bidenomics in One Lesson
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says real average hourly earnings have fallen 3.16% during the Biden presidency.

What is 'Bidenomics'? Critics offer their own definitions of the term
"Bidenomics - n. What in the 1970s was called stagflation. Now with a new name, but the same unaffordability," BlazeTV media critic Rob Eno tweeted.

Roughly 1 in 3 approve of Biden’s handling of economy amid ‘Bidenomics’ push: AP poll
Just 34% said they approve of the president’s handling of the economy.

Trump leads Biden 47%-46%, DeSantis 49%-25% among PA voters: Poll
56% of PA voters believe the Biden DOJ's indictment against Trump is politically motivated.

Trump's Praise Made RFK Jr. 'Proud'
Kennedy, who's running as a Democrat for 2024, was deemed a "common-sense guy" by Trump.

RFK Jr. declines to pledge to support whoever becomes the Democratic presidential nominee
Kennedy flatly rejected the idea, declaring that "of course" he would not make that pledge.

Disney Asks for Lawsuit vs. DeSantis to Begin During GOP Convention
"Sounds like election interference."

NY Times: In Harlem and Beyond, NYC Election Points to Generational Power Shift
In both Harlem and East New York, voters went from supporting self-described socialists to backing moderate Democrats.

Democratic congresswoman says Catholics are compelled by their faith to support abortion
The purple-haired congresswoman was subsequently slammed online and confronted with the facts of the Catholic Church's actual teachings about the murderous practice.

The Real Reason the Haters Want to Dump VP Kamala Harris
What I find truly infuriating is not our misplaced anger and "disapproval" toward the first woman of color to reach so high an office. What is truly maddening is the fact that Trump's own numbers are coated in Teflon.

Economy / ESG...

Carol Roth: Blame government for the reason young adults are STILL living with their parents
When the World Economic Forum, an organization littered with the global political and business elite, predicted that by 2030, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy,” the second part of the statement was just as intentional as the first.

A US recession is coming this year, HSBC warns — with Europe to follow in 2024
In its midyear outlook, the British banking giant’s asset manager said recession warnings are “flashing red” for many economies, while fiscal and monetary policies are “out of sync” with stock and bond markets.

I’m married to a millionaire — here’s how I spend $16K a day
The 23-year old housewife has plenty of cash and plenty of time to spend it.

Border...

NYC Milestone: Illegal Aliens Outnumber New Yorkers in Homeless Shelters
“The tipping point took place Sunday, when 50,000 migrants were in the City’s care, outnumbering the 49,700 local shelter residents,” NBC New York reports.

Report: Foreigners Overstaying Their Visas Hit ‘Record Number’ Under Joe Biden
Biden’s DHS released its annual visa overstay report for fiscal year 2022, revealing that nearly 854,000 foreign nationals overstayed their visas.

WAR News... 

Nord Stream Expedition Reveals New Details About Bombing
A Swedish engineer set out to prove Seymour Hersh's narrative about the Nord Stream bombing was correct ... however, he now doubts the many details in Hersh’s account.

New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims
Another take on the same source material.

Russia Axes Pledge To Drop Criminal Charges Against Prigozhin, Begins Targeting Mutiny ‘Sympathizers’
Who saw that coming?

NATO Security Guarantees To Ukraine Could Mean A Nuclear War With Russia
Ultimately, no one’s security is enhanced by risking future war between the United States and Russia.

RT: Only 11% of Russians back call to use nuclear weapons – survey
Most say this is not an option regardless of the situation in Ukraine, a new poll shows.

What Happens When A Nuclear Weapons State Faces A Coup Or Domestic Chaos?
The idea of combatants in a civil war seizing nuclear weapons is one of the nightmare scenarios for security analysts.

COVID-19...

Enough Gaslighting. We Absolutely Need to Know Where COVID Came From
Elected officials and the media have, for the most part, shown a kind of passive, blasé attitude toward the question, as if the issue of whether COVID came from a lab or a market is a purely academic one.

Commie Update...

New Information Revealed About Chinese Spy Balloon That Crossed US: Report
The Chinese spy balloon that Biden allowed to fly over the U.S. earlier this year was reportedly carrying American-made hardware to capture reconnaissance imagery.

Biden urged not to renew US-China tech, science cooperation over spy balloon
Members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party have implored the White House not to renew a U.S.-China science and technology cooperation agreement that they say Beijing has put to nefarious use.

Entertainment...

Rolling Stone: The Red-Pilling of Rob Schneider: A Complete Timeline
The "Hot Chick" star, who's now stumping for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has completed the arc as an anti-vaxxer.

Jimmy Kimmel tries to dunk on RFK Jr., fails miserably, gets fact-checked
RFK Jr., who has called for global warming "deniers" to be treated as traitors (i.e., executed), pointed out that during COVID, the average American gained 29 pounds. Kimmel said that was nonsense, then said RFK Jr. is likely Borat. The laughs ensued. NOT!

Madonna hospitalized for 'serious bacterial infection'
According to reports, Madonna was discovered unresponsive at an unidentified residence in or near New York City on Saturday.

Pete Davidson Enters Rehab For Mental Health Issues
Davidson has reportedly entered rehab due to ongoing struggles with borderline personality disorder and PTSD.

Dan Aykroyd ‘wouldn’t choose to do blackface’ again after ‘Trading Places’
“I was in blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now. Eddie and I were improvising there. Eddie is a black man, and his entourage were all black people, and I don’t think they batted an eye. There was no objection then; nobody said anything."

Mia Khalifa claims she's 'in her prime at 30' after growing unibrow
The former porn star revealed how she finally feels comfortable in her own skin now that she's in her 30s, giving her "inner child a hug and telling her it's okay to look different."

Vanna White lawyers up amid allegations she hasn't seen a pay raise in 18 years
According to Puck News, White hired attorney Bryan Freedman, whose high-profile client list includes Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Gabrielle Union, Chris Harrison, and other TV personalities.

Europe...

Netherlands doctors are euthanizing people with autism, intellectual disabilities: study
Nearly 40 people who identified as autistic or intellectually disabled were legally euthanized in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2021, according to a Kingston University investigation of Dutch euthanasia cases.

Environment...

Ford to cut 1,000 jobs, lose $3 billion over electric car investments
Ford is expecting to lose $3 billion in electric vehicle operating profit this year.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Polls Show Americans Want Businesses To Put Away Pride Flags And Stay Out Of Politics
According to the poll, 73% of voters would prefer “to shop at a business that stays neutral on political and cultural issues.”

More girls are being diagnosed with 'gender dysphoria,' seeking treatment at progressively younger ages: Study
A study published this week in the journal General Psychiatry revealed an "upward trend" in biological females diagnosed with gender dysphoria, noting that it was "traditionally" a "rare condition predominant" in biological males.

LGBT activists encourage children to throw bricks at effigies of Republicans and Supreme Court justices
Children were not just exposed to nude men at the Seattle Pride parade over the weekend, but to invitations to attack effigies of Republicans and conservative Supreme Court justices as well.

Left-Wing Hackers Strike Texas City in Revenge Over Ban On Child Sex Changes
"We have decided to make a message toward the U.S. Government," the hackers said. "Texas happens to be one of the largest states banning gender-affirming care, and for that we have made Texas a target."

Google drops drag show sponsorship after Christian workers push back
Google quietly dropped its sponsorship of a San Francisco drag show after Christian employees filed a petition calling the performance a "direct affront" to their religious beliefs, CNBC reported.

Trans-identified woman feels cast out of LGBT community after birthing son
"Every time I walk into a room, I feel alone … because a lot of trans men don’t want to be open about their queerness."

Hundreds of topless women join 'Dyke March' to protest for 'bodily autonomy' in NYC
"Not your f***ing body, not your f***ing business."

Anheuser-Busch CEO won't say whether partnership with Dylan Mulvaney was a mistake
His answer was so scattered and full of corporate PR jargon that the Daily Mail presumed it must have been "a pre-rehearsed speech."

Education...

Multi-Faith Coalition Of Immigrant Parents Protest Maryland Public Schools’ Woke Sex Ed
A large crowd of largely “brown and black” people, as equity warriors so often colorize minorities, rallied for the right of parents to opt children out of age-inappropriate sex education in local public schools.

Health...

First-ever drug designed by AI now being tested on humans with chronic lung disease
Insilico Medicine announced that the first AI-discovered and AI-designed drug is now being tested on human volunteers.

Penis enlargement is on the rise
William Moore, a co-founder of the Dallas-based enhancement firm PhalloFILL, said he started in 2020 by injecting friends and people whom he knew. He now has 16 franchises nationwide.

Technology...

Zuck’s Spy: Former CIA Agent Takes Over ‘Elections Policies’ at Facebook
Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA who already held a senior position in Facebook’s "misinformation" team during the 2020 election, has been promoted to "Head of Elections Policies."

Science...

NASA astronaut claims aliens 'took interest' in nukes and 'stopped war'
A NASA astronaut who has stepped foot on the moon claimed that aliens took an interest in humanity when it developed nuclear weapons, adding that they also managed to stop the Cold War from going nuclear.

UFO hunter abducted '60 times' claims to spot alien ship that looks like a fish
Russ Kellett filmed what looks like a fish from his garden after claiming he's been repeatedly abducted by 15-foot extraterrestrial beings.

Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus
Unfortunately, confirming the existence of such a world the size of Uranus would be tough.

July 29, 2011 - Media distorts Michele Bachmann's words... Glenn's second-to-last show on Fox... Who is accusing Glenn of making up stories now?... The caliphate... Does Glenn have the chance to set policy in the Middle East?... The truth about the verbal attack on Glenn's family at Bryant Park... What are these subsidies that people want taken away from oil companies?...

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

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

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.