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Morning Brief 2025-06-13

June 13, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus
TOPIC: Israel launches a pre-emptive STRIKE against Iran’s nuclear program.

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Glenn Beck...

Glenn Beck announces an exciting new project
“It is my mission now, I believe, in the next chapter of my life to do for American education what we did to legacy media.”

Glenn Beck's 'No King but Christ' merch: Will faith STOP the chaos?
As progressive activists storm D.C. with recycled 2020 theatrics and chants of rebellion, Glenn Beck rolls out his “No Kings but Christ” line — reminding Americans that real authority doesn’t come from the government, mobs, or the media.

Riots...

Federal appeals court rules Trump to maintain control of California National Guard, overruling judge
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer approved the temporary restraining order after a contentious hearing earlier in the day, where he claimed that recent actions by the Trump administration and president were reminiscent of a monarchy.

LA mayor once joined pro-Cuba communist group, now it’s part of CCP-linked network behind protests
Karen Bass' radical communist-linked past is coming back to haunt her as the pro-Cuban revolutionary group she was a member of in her youth has joined a Marxist financial network linked to the Los Angeles protests.

Man caught on video passing out face shields to rioters has been arrested, feds say
"We have made it a huge priority to try to identify, locate, and arrest those who are involved in organizing, supporting, funding, or facilitating these riots," U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said to Fox News. "It appears they're well-orchestrated and coordinated and well-funded."

Alleged LA riot leader’s father slams him for handing out supplies to anti-ICE protesters
Francisco Orellana’s reaction to seeing his son driving a truck loaded with supplies for protesters was: “What the f**k are you doing?”

Thread: The AFL-CIO and 'No Kings' connection
The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center, backed by $72 million in federal funds in 2023, is sponsoring the "No Kings" rally in the Twin Cities on June 14, 2025.

US Attorney Essayli obliterates narrative of union leader’s arrest at ICE riot in interview with Glenn Beck
Union boss David Huerta was pepper-sprayed and arrested after physically blocking agents during a search warrant operation; U.S. Attorney Essayli says officers had no idea who he was and rejected political calls demanding his release.

Tim Walz grilled for comparing ICE agents to 'Nazi Gestapo'
"Inflammatory rhetoric such as yours ... is responsible for putting a target on the back of every ICE agent who is risking their life to protect our communities."

NBC News says LA riots are just Russian disinformation
Russian media and pro-Russian voices have embraced right-wing conspiracy theories about the protests, including one that alleged the Mexican government was encouraging the demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

LA Times: Is your favorite taco truck slower than usual? ICE raids are sending street vendors into hiding
The risk of being arrested and deported versus the need for economic security is plaguing undocumented vendors throughout Los Angeles, said Elba Serrano, the associate vice president of East L.A. Community Corp. Around 80% of their clients are undocumented, Serrano said.

Resilient woman of color and dedicated mother mocked by white anti-ICE agitators while simply trying to go to work
Turning Point USA reporter Savanah Hernandez — who filmed the hateful incident — asked the protesters: "How do y'all as white people feel about stopping a black woman from going to work?"

News...

Stormy weather threatens Trump’s military parade, but ‘historic celebration’ will go on, White House says
Rows of tanks arrived in D.C. this week that are expected to be among the approximately 150 military vehicles on display for the parade. The daylong spectacle will also boast more than 6,500 soldiers and 50 aircraft, the Army said.

Florida AG and sheriff warn violent protesters, if you attack cops, 'we will kill you'
"If you throw a brick, a fire bomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you. Graveyard, dead. We're not going to play, this has got to stop."

CIA releases more than 1,000 pages on RFK assassination
The CIA released 1,450 additional pages of documents related to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on Thursday, including 54 previously classified documents and revealing records on his killer — and no evidence of a wider conspiracy.

Supreme Court says family can sue over wrong-house raid by FBI
Agents quickly acknowledged they had stormed the wrong address due to a faulty GPS direction, but the FBI refused to provide any restitution. Lower courts later tossed out the family's liability claims, citing sweeping protections under federal law.

Hillsdale College source: Suspect in arson at school may be serial arsonist released after recent fire at DC Catholic church
Business owners in Washington, D.C., reportedly are frustrated at law enforcement after a suspect in several arson incidents was released without charges.

Politics...

House narrowly passes DOGE cuts despite Republican defectors
The rescissions package cuts in foreign aid and cuts spending to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses taxpayer dollars to fund biased media platforms like PBS and NPR. The package passed with a 214-212 vote.

Horowitz: Split the Big Beautiful Bill Act, seal the border ... and give Trump a real win
The rift between the Freedom Caucus, the K Street crowd, RINOs, and the Trump White House remains unbridgeable. So what’s the realistic path forward on budget reconciliation?

CNN analyst defends feds manhandling Democrat senator at Noem event
Ex-FBI agent Josh Campbell said agents were right to forcibly remove Sen. Padilla after he interrupted a DHS press conference and refused to comply with security, noting that once he re-approached agents after being told to leave, he became a security threat subject to immediate removal.

Gavin Newsom Is The White Male Kamala
If watching news coverage of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s melodramatic remarks on Tuesday night is giving you deja vu, you’re not alone. It really is exactly like what the dying media tried doing with Kamala Harris last year.

Fighting Trump in Congress Is Like Fighting 'Nazis in Northern Africa,' Dem Rep Says
"I think he's looking down right now, and he's happy that I'm fighting today's Nazis," Stephen Lynch says of dad who served in WWII.

Cuomo PAC accused of Islamophobia after editing opponent’s beard in attack ad
Zohran Mamdani accused Andrew Cuomo’s Super PAC of pushing racist fear tactics after it released an ad with his beard digitally darkened and thickened, calling it blatant Islamophobia in the heated New York City mayoral race.

Republican lawmaker distributed hundreds of child porn files under username ‘joebidennn69’: Feds
Robert “RJ” May, a member of the House of Representatives in the Palmetto State, was arrested at his Lexington County home Wednesday on a 10-count indictment charging him with distributing child sex abuse material, court documents showed.

Economy...

Oil prices surge 9% on heels of Israeli strikes, set for largest single-day gains in about 5 years
Crude oil futures jumped as much as 13% Thursday evening after Israel launched airstrikes against Iran without U.S. support.

Lockheed Martin: We're Looking into Reports We Gave Out Bonuses Based on Skin Color
A whistleblower at Lockheed Martin has come forward to Christopher Rufo claiming that annual bonuses at the company were based on skin color rather than performance in some cases. The source is anonymous but the story suggests they brought with them evidence to back up this claim.

Immigration...

Trump promises farmers 'changes are coming' to immigration crackdown
"Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace," the president wrote Thursday.

Politico: Democrats tested immigration messaging in battleground districts. Here’s what they found.
A survey by Democrat pollsters found focusing on Trump’s overreach blunts the president’s advantage on the issue.

Middle East...

After years of preparation, Israel launches major offensive against Iran and its nuclear program
Decades of Israeli warnings against Iran’s nuclear program and preparations for military action to thwart it culminated early Friday morning with the Jewish state launching a major offensive against the Islamic Republic, striking nuclear sites, military facilities, missile bases, and senior leadership.

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Continue Bombing Iran Until Threat Removed
"I want to assure the civilized world, we will not let the world’s most dangerous regime get the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

Which Iranian officials were killed in the Israeli attacks?
In addition to targeting Tehran's nuclear facilities, the strikes targeted a number of high-ranking officials and nuclear scientists.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Responds To Israel’s Attack
“This regime must expect severe punishment. The strong hand of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic will not abandon it, God willing.”

After uncritically citing Hamas to pin aid site shooting on Israel, WaPo says Israeli-backed aid org ‘did not offer evidence’ to support claims of Hamas attack on its workers
The Washington Post ran with Hamas talking points to blame Israel for an aid site shooting, then turned skeptical when an Israeli- and U.S.-backed group accused Hamas of murdering eight aid workers — calling them “controversial” and demanding evidence.

Ukraine - Russia...

Russia’s military casualties top 1 million, Ukraine says
The U.K. Defense Ministry also said in a statement posted Thursday on X that Russia has suffered over one million casualties, including roughly 250,000 killed since it launched the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.

China...

Trump Says Hundreds Of Thousands Of Chinese Students Are ‘Good For Our Country’
“Does it mean that you have to watch people? Yeah, you have to watch students, but you have to watch other people also. I’ve always been strongly in favor of it. I think it’s a great thing. It’s good for our schools, I think it’s good for our country. I’m also in favor of having them stay. I’ve been in favor of letting them stay.”

Entertainment...

Shocking twist unfolds in court during Harvey Weinstein's trial as judge declares a mistrial
The foreman had told Judge Curtis Farber that he was afraid to be in the same room with fellow jurors after he claimed they yelled at him to try to change his mind.

Media...

FTC may block ad giants from blacklisting conservative media
As part of its probe into collusive ad boycotts, the FTC is weighing a move to stop Omnicom and Interpublic from targeting websites based on politics, a condition for greenlighting their $13.25 billion merger.

Progressive Senators Propose Ban on Drug Advertising to Consumers
Prescription drug advertising makes up a major portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising in the U.S. each year. Prescription drug brands accounted for 24.4% of ad minutes across evening news programs on ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NBC this year through May.

CNN’s extremism 'expert' silent on left-wing violence but finds time for UFOs and pillow lawsuits
While Jewish aid workers are firebombed and L.A. burns in pro-illegal alien riots, Donie O'Sullivan skips the mayhem to mock UFO believers and chase Mike Lindell.

Environment...

Trump to kill $7,500 EV credit ... and Elon agrees?
Elon has "literally" been calling for the credit to end for years.

Flashback 2021: Musk blasts Biden’s $1.7T reconciliation bill, calls EV subsidies wasteful and unfair
“I’m literally saying get rid of all subsidies. But also for oil and gas."

LGBTQIA2S+...

Pride Toronto faces $900K shortfall after major sponsors pull out
Pride Toronto’s executive director Kojo Modeste confirmed the organization lost major backers including Google, Home Depot, Nissan, and Clorox, some of whom had already verbally or even formally committed to participate.

Tampon Tim Sidesteps ‘What Is A Woman?’ Query: ‘I’m Not Sure I Understand The Question’
The governor earned his nickname when he signed legislation requiring that menstrual products had to be available in all bathrooms for grades 4th through 12th — including boys' bathrooms.

AI...

Trump AI czar warns regulation could cripple US in global tech race
David Sacks defended Trump’s innovation-first strategy, slamming Biden-era overreach and warning that fear-based regulation would hand the AI future to China.

What If China Wins the AI Race?
With China's AI breakthroughs erasing America's lead, Washington is quietly shifting from dominance to damage control — building safeguards, easing migration between models, and planning how to benefit from an AI future it may no longer control.

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Wow, very impressive for such a low budget.

Google and US Experts Join on AI Hurricane Forecasts
DeepMind announced that it was supplying the government forecasters with a newly enhanced variety of its weather forecasting models. Specialized to focus on hurricanes, the model tracks a storm’s development for up to 15 days, predicting not only its path but also its strength.

Travel...

Boeing faces fresh crisis after Air India Dreamliner crash kills 240
The deadly 787 disaster, the first for Boeing’s flagship jet, shatters its safety streak and intensifies scrutiny over production shortcuts, whistleblower warnings, and a pattern of deadly failures haunting the aerospace giant.

Miracle passenger in seat 11A survives Air India plane crash that killed over 200 people: ‘Bodies all around me’
The British-Indian citizen was found walking in the street amid the wreckage after the passenger plane smashed into a hostel for doctors and their families just moments after taking off, authorities said.

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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.

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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.