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Morning Brief 2024-06-25

June 25, 2024
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Trent Staggs
TOPIC: Will Republicans in Utah nominate another Mitt Romney to the U.S. Senate?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Sen. Mike Lee
TOPIC: Democrats want to draft YOUR daughters into the military.


News...

Joe and Jill Biden have been using their Delaware house for fast cash
They have refinanced one property 20 times with loans totaling $4.2M since buying the $350k home.

Judges partially block Biden's unconstitutional student loan forgiveness scheme
U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree in Wichita, Kansas, blocked parts of the plan moments before U.S. District Judge John Ross in St. Louis, Missouri, issued a preliminary injunction against the plan. Biden's vote-buying scheme was scheduled to go into effect on July 1.

Law enforcement is spying on thousands of Americans’ mail, records show
The Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and federal agents seeking information from Americans’ letters and packages.

Supreme Court Abruptly Changes Schedule
In an unexpected move, the U.S. Supreme Court has announced additional opinion days this week, signaling a potential rush to conclude its current term. The nation's highest court added Thursday and Friday to its schedule.

Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars and liquidate assets
In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in Houston, trustee Christopher Murray indicated publicly for the first time that he intends to “conduct an orderly wind-down” of the operations of Infowars’ parent company and “liquidate its inventory.”

Julian Assange reaches plea deal with DOJ that would grant him release from prison
He would be released from prison to his native Australia. The deal must first be approved by a federal judge.

Bellevue landlord gets March 2025 court date in war with squatters
It has been two years since Jaskaran Singh rented his Bellevue home to a couple who soon after moving in, stopped paying rent.

The Government Wants To Track Your Steak
From cellphones and cars to snow plows and garbage trucks, governments seemingly want to track anything that moves — or moos.

New York’s Fat Beach Day gives land whales space to be themselves
Fat Beach Day events are springing up across the U.S. in an effort to fight back against fat-phobia, reclaim safe spaces for the community, and honor the morbidly obese.

Woman is flashing people in New York City in a bid to liberate women
Eila Adams, from Toronto, explained how exposing her boobs and "nether regions" to the public in the Big Apple has been her nod to gender equality.

Ted Bundy's family break 50-year silence to reveal serial killer's final letters
Newly released handwritten letters show how Ted Bundy berated relatives for believing "innuendo, gossip and accusations" about his crimes — as he compared himself to Gandhi.

Blaze News / Glenn Beck News...

Dom Theodore Saved Glenn Beck’s Career Before Beck Saved His Life
“I was at the Mayo Clinic getting a test ... he paused during a stop set and he called me and he prayed with me before I went in for that scan ... that’s a good friend.”

Glenn's audience raised $100k to help surgeon targeted by DOJ for exposing transgender treatment on minors
Dr. Haim and his wife weren't looking to step into the spotlight, but they had the courage to do so when the occasion arose. And you have rallied around them to make it possible for their fight to continue.

Bedford: Democrats’ strange obsession with drafting your daughters
The Senate adjourned without addressing the controversial proposal to draft women, which was added to the National Defense Authorization Act by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Sunday in a small town
Not everybody goes to church here, but everybody has a church. There are as many pews, padded and otherwise, as people in this town. A place for everyone, even the atheists.

Lawfare...

Turley: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland
The Supreme Court's recent decisions highlight stark differences between Manhattan's selective prosecutions and broader judicial principles that protect defendants' rights.

Judge Cannon scolds Trump prosecutor: ‘I don’t appreciate your tone’
Judge Aileen Cannon pressed special counsel Jack Smith’s team during a hearing Monday about speech restrictions it was seeking to impose on Donald Trump, conveying skepticism that the former president’s words were, as Smith has argued, dangerous.

Judge Throws Out Leftist Nevada AG’s Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Case Against Trump Supporters
Lawfare leftists lost another round in their bogus “fake electors” scheme to imprison Trump supporters, this time in Nevada where the state’s Democrat attorney general is pushing an 11th-hour political prosecution.

Debate...

CNN abruptly takes Trump campaign spokeswoman off the air mid-interview as network is set to host first presidential debate
Karoline Leavitt noted the debate stage would likely be a “hostile environment” for her boss — and pointed out CNN’s debate moderators' past biased coverage of Trump when she was cut off.

Voters Skeptical Of CNN, Anchors Tapper And Bash, Heading Into Trump/Biden Debate: I&I/TIPP Poll
Just 45% of those polled had a favorable opinion of CNN. Meanwhile only 30% of voters gave Tapper a positive score, while that number drops to 26% for Bash.

Babylon Bee: Trump Preps For Debate Against Biden By Going To Nursing Home And Arguing With Dementia Patients
Trump's debate prep is a distinct departure from previous campaign years when he took part in mock debates against Chris Christie. "I spent all my time arguing against a fat man about bridges or something," Trump said, reflecting on past debate missteps.

Politics...

Trump VP pick 'down to final three'
They are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Biden campaign chair admits Florida is no longer a battleground state
"For decades, Florida was the largest, most-important battleground state in presidential elections. Today, even the Biden campaign acknowledges that those days are over. Florida is not in play in 2024," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted.

Trump expands push in blue states as Virginia appears competitive
The Old Dominion boasts 13 electoral votes, rendering it a potentially pivotal state in the event of a close race.

Zito: Jill Biden’s fear-and-loathing campaign in Pennsylvania
Jill Biden lectured women about the dangers of a Trump presidency, emphasizing abortion and democracy. However, with polls showing inflation and the economy as top concerns, the Biden campaign focus may miss the mark with key working-class voters.

Virginia Republican Party declares McGuire winner of primary in blow to Bob Good
Under state rules, Good has the option to request a recount because the margin of victory is under 1 percentage point. As of Monday at 8:54 p.m., McGuire led Good by just 0.6 points.

Anti-Semites Rally To Save Jamaal Bowman From Primary Loss
Bowman is on track to become first "Squad" member ousted by Dems.

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
The AP describes it as a "highly unusual and potentially chilling effort."

Republican arrested after 'chasing an adult dancer on a road while waving a gun at 2:45am'
His campaign released this statement, "As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his Second Amendment right. We do not have any details, besides what the media sourced, oddly before anyone of us knew anything. It is highly suspect."

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao says FBI wouldn’t have raided her home if she were rich
“This wouldn’t have gone down the way it did if I was rich, if I had gone to elite private schools or if I had come from money,” she said.

Economy...

Social Security, Medicare, And Medicaid Are Cannibalizing The Entire Federal Budget
It matters not what Biden or Trump claim. The idea that Washington can balance the budget, or even get the budget into something resembling a responsible posture, without touching two-thirds of the budget — i.e., Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — defies any type of logic.

Trump in talks to speak at Bitcoin convention in July
"I will end Joe Biden's war on crypto," Trump said at a recent rally in Wisconsin.

Immigration...

Biden’s border budget buster
Something in the Medicaid program is adding tens of billions to the deficit every year. Thanks to a recent law passed by DeSantis in Florida, we may now know what it is. It is probably Biden’s border crisis.

Mexican cartels offer VIP smuggling packages to illegal aliens — up to $15,000 per person
"Now 60 to 70% of their focus is migrant smuggling. A kilo of cocaine might bring in $1,500, but the risk is very high."

COVID-19...

'Vast Majority' of Pandemic Employee Retention Credit Claims Are Likely Scams, Says IRS
Ultimately, only "between 10% and 20% of the ERC claims show a low risk" for fraud.

WaPo: Masks are going from mandated to criminalized in some states
Lawmakers in North Carolina and New York say mask bans in response to pro-Palestinian protests would not target medical mask wearing, but critics are skeptical as COVID rates are surging.

Israel...

As war with Hezbollah looms, concerns over vulnerability of power grid generate unease
Experts say Israel’s energy supply is susceptible to attack; with nation ill-prepared for long blackouts, many are rushing for diesel generators.

Netanyahu accuses Biden of withholding weapons, echoes 2014 tensions
An incident from 10 years ago, when Biden was VP, led Netanyahu last week to point out how the White House is using deceptive tactics regarding U.S. arms deliveries to Israel.

Trump urges people to watch 'Screams Before Silence' October 7 film
Trump wrote that the documentary was "incredibly difficult to watch because, sadly, it graphically portrays the Death and Destruction that Hamas has unleashed."

Ukraine-Russia...

Ukraine Confrontation Becomes More Like the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Ukraine war mirrors the Cuban Missile Crisis as NATO's escalation with long-range weapons provokes Russia. Biden's election concerns and Putin's nationalism risk pushing both nations toward confrontation.

World...

Why is the White House silent on Sudan?
150,000 people dead, famine looms, but Biden's spokesman can't cope with questions, and the president hasn't issued a statement in a year.

Qatar funds PBS documentary to push anti-Saudi propaganda
A Qatari-backed front group paid $250,000 to journalist Burt Wolf for a PBS documentary on Yemen, using it to influence American perceptions and policy against Saudi Arabia and the UAE, without disclosing the source of funding.

Entertainment...

Jerry Seinfeld torches even more anti-Israel hecklers
"I think you need to go back and tell whoever's running your organization: 'We just gave more money to a Jew.' That cannot be a good plan for you."

Disney’s ‘Inside Out 2’ could be the first billion-dollar movie of 2024
Worth It or Woke gave the movie a 90% "based" score saying, "Even though you can feel how badly it wants to be, it's not a woke mess."

Michael Jackson's chimpanzee Bubbles is 41
Though the Florida sanctuary plays MJ's music and videos for the chimps ... Bubbles doesn't appear to like Michael's music over any other.

Environment...

PETA calls on people to 'stop having sex with meat-eating men'
Despite PETA's campaigning, Americans eat far more meat than in previous decades.

Biden DOE Outsourcing Home Appliance Regulations to Left-Wing Green Groups
DOE's "stakeholders" include several groups funded by progressive billionaires.

LGBTQQIAAPP2S+A...

White House’s New Cross-Dressing Spokesman Came Straight From Biden’s Wokest Agency
"The modern day police system is a direct evolution of slave patrols and lynch mobs," he claimed in a social media post.

US Airbase Authorizes Troops To Wear LGBT ‘Pride Patch’ Alongside Real Badges Of Honor
Insignia and patches on a soldier’s uniform used to serve the purpose of telling you something about the military qualifications and experience of the soldier.

Education...

Biden Admin Weighed Using ‘School Children’ To Help Register Dem-Leaning Voters, Emails Show
Department of the Interior officials in 2022 developed a plan that would have given Native American children attending Bureau of Indian Education schools voter registration materials to bring home to their parents, internal emails show.

Health...

Novo Nordisk to build $4.1 billion North Carolina facility to boost output of Wegovy, Ozempic
Around 35,000 U.S. patients on average start Wegovy each week today, up from roughly 27,000 in May. Construction is expected to be completed between 2027 and 2029.

Parkinson's blood test gives early-diagnosis hope
Researchers just developed an AI-powered blood test that can predict Parkinson's disease up to seven years before symptoms appear, potentially revolutionizing early diagnosis and treatment.

Technology...

Instagram makes it difficult to find Tucker Carlson, issues 'insane warning'
A perfunctory search for Carlson fails to turn up his verified account. Instead, impersonators and fan accounts flood the results. Once you find the account, you get a pop asking, "Are you sure you want to follow tuckercarlson? This account has repeatedly posted false information."

Science...

Boeing Astronauts 'Stranded' on Space Station
Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams remain on the ISS as Boeing and NASA engineers work to fix a series of helium leaks on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that ferried them into space on its first crewed voyage.

Mount St. Helens Acting Up But Won't Trigger Yellowstone Supervolcano
The scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory said he's getting a lot of calls from the public wondering if the hundreds of earthquakes detected under Mount St. Helens could trigger the Yellowstone supervolcano.

June 25, 2010 - Predator drones over US cities… 1963 goals of the US Communist Party… Guam video haunts Hank Johnson… Nobel winners… Glenn’s bat he got from Albert Pujols… Chris Christie not running for president… Interview with Jerry Falwell Jr.…

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.

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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.