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Morning Brief 2025-07-23

July 23, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Alan Dershowitz
TOPIC: Is Ghislaine Maxwell going to cut a deal with Bondi's DOJ?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: David Barton
TOPIC: Why schools SHOULD be required to display the Ten Commandments.

Russiagate...

Trump says 'irrefutable proof' shows Obama is guilty of 'treason' — and names other Dems in 'biggest scandal' in US history
"Obama's been caught directly," Trump said. "So people say, 'Oh, you know, a group.' It's not a group. It's Obama. His orders are on the paper. The papers are signed. The papers came right out of their office. They sent everything to be highly classified."

Barack Hussein Obama's office responds to Trump's accusations of treason
"These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction," reads the statement from Patrick Rodenbush.

John Brennan responds to ‘specious allegations’ from Obama Russia intel controversy
Brennan claims the 2017 intelligence report on Russian election interference was meticulously prepared and accurately reflected Putin’s intent to harm Clinton and boost Trump — denying it was manipulated or manufactured by the Obama administration.

‘No Intelligence’: Senior Intel Officials Reportedly Disputed Brennan’s Key Russiagate Claim
Senior intelligence officials who investigated allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election disagreed with former CIA Director John Brennan over a key claim, but he overruled their objections, according to a report published Tuesday.

Flashback: USA Today — we read every one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found.
A review of 3,517 Russian-bought Facebook ads found most targeted racial tensions, not Trump or Clinton, with only about 100 ads directly supporting or opposing either candidate.

News...

Trump says his FBI found nothing ‘abnormal’ when investigating assassination attempt
Despite accepting the conclusion that shooter Thomas Crooks acted alone, Trump admitted he still finds the official story hard to believe and criticized security failures at the rally.

House Judiciary accuses Biden FBI of creating 'false narrative' regarding Catholic Americans
The report accuses the bureau of creating a "manufactured narrative to insert federal law-enforcement agents into places of worship" and accuses the FBI of spying on a priest after he refused to discuss a private conversation he had with a parishioner.

Kari Lake bombshell: VOA managers met with Chinese to discuss more favorable coverage for Beijing
The revelation follows reporting that VOA hired multiple Chinese nationals with ties to state media controlled by the Communist Party.

Federal Judges Kick Trump's Pick Out Of Top Prosecutor Spot In Blue State
A panel of federal judges decided on Tuesday not to keep Trump pick Alina Habba as New Jersey’s top prosecutor. The court appointed prosecutor Desiree Leigh Grace to replace Habba. AG Pam Bondi responded by announcing hours after the judges’ decision that the DOJ removed Grace as Habba’s deputy.

Democrats created this court monster — now it’s eating them
Every time Democrats sue to block Trump’s orders, they hand him another opportunity — and this court is more than ready to lock in conservative victories for a generation.

Congress moves to stop foreign governments from seizing US property
Lawmakers are responding to Mexico’s shutdown of Vulcan Materials with a bill to block foreign governments from expropriating U.S. property without consequences.

Man charged for building and stashing homemade bombs across New York City
Gann allegedly threw one of these devices onto active subway tracks at the Williamsburg Bridge. He also stored the devices, as well as shotgun shells, on the roofs of residential apartment buildings in Manhattan.

Michigan official who pushed soft-on-crime agenda charged with assault, domestic violence
Flint city councilman Leon El-Alamin, once hailed as a redemption story under Whitmer’s “clean slate” law, now faces up to 10 years in prison after allegedly choking and beating his girlfriend.

Prosecutors charge suspected driver in LA ramming with 37 counts of attempted murder
Fernando Ramirez was pulled from the vehicle and shot in the back by an unknown attacker as onlookers set upon him, kicking and punching him, police said. It later emerged that he has a lengthy criminal history, including battery, assault, petty theft, child abuse, and endangerment.

Idaho firefighter killer left disturbing drawings, farewell letter before ambush
The shooter left behind crude sketches of his own death, a cryptic letter to his father, and warnings of violence before murdering two firefighters in a staged attack.

Coca-Cola makes good on Trump promise, drops first product made with cane sugar
Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles.

Epstein...

Maxwell may cut deal to reveal Epstein secrets as appeals dwindle
Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly preparing to cooperate with federal authorities, potentially offering details about Jeffrey Epstein’s network as she runs out of legal options to reduce her 20-year sentence.

House panel votes to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein deposition
A congressional subcommittee approved a subpoena for Maxwell’s testimony, as lawmakers push to uncover Epstein’s network — despite delays and partisan jabs over who’s blocking the full release.

Politics...

US House more than doubles security spending for members’ homes and protective details
Each U.S. House member will receive up to $20,000 to install or enhance security systems at their home residences and up to $5,000 a month to hire private security teams through September 2025.

Politico: Hunter Biden’s alternate history
Hunter paints his father as a lifelong statesman with zero blame for the party’s downfall — casting Democrat elites as villains while pretending Joe Biden wasn’t one of them.

NYC Mayor Adams out fundraises Democratic nominee Mamdani over last month, Cuomo falls behind
During the most recent filing period, from June 10 to July 11, Adams raised $1.5 million, nearly half of which came from outside New York City.

In Bid To Thwart Texas Republicans, Eric Holder Promotes Gerrymandering Effort He's Long Claimed To Oppose
Holder, the head of the left's premier redistricting group, has lauded "fair" Dem-drawn maps while decrying GOP "gerrymanders."

GOP pundit, CNN contributor Scott Jennings now says may run for McConnell seat if Trump asks
“I pay very close attention to everything the president says,” Scott Jennings said.

Economy...

Trump announces ‘massive’ trade deal with Japan, setting tariffs at 15%
Trump said that Japan will invest $550 billion into the United States, adding that the U.S. will “receive 90% of the Profits.” He also said Japan will “open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things.”

Trump strikes tariff-slashing trade deals with Philippines and Indonesia
The Philippines will drop all tariffs on U.S. goods while facing a new 19% tariff on their exports to the U.S. Indonesia agreed to eliminate 99% of its tariffs on American industrial, tech, and agricultural products.

Business spending reaches near 30-year high under Trump: 'It's the real deal'
Fueled by Trump’s sweeping economic reforms, capital investment surged over 16% in the first half of 2025 — driven by record growth in equipment production and a spike in blue-collar wages not seen since the 1960s.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to build largest US plant in Virginia as part of $50B investment in US
The project is expected to create hundreds of high-skilled jobs and will focus on producing respiratory and oncology medicines using artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced data analytics.

Billionaire may be forced to part with mansions, yacht, and Ferraris in tragic twist
After defaulting on a $535 million loan, Charles Cohen now faces the unthinkable: letting go of his beloved 220-foot yacht, dozens of luxury cars, and sprawling estates in Connecticut and the south of France.

Immigration...

Soros-Tied Groups Back Republican Bill To Give Amnesty To Millions Of Illegal Aliens
Groups with ties to the Democrat billionaire are cheering on Rep. Salazar's legislation as they bash the Trump admin's policies.

ICE says viral story of 82-year-old deported to Guatemala is a hoax
Officials flatly denied arresting or deporting Luis Leon, citing no record of his detention or travel, while Guatemala and Chile confirm no trace of him — casting serious doubt on a now-silent family’s explosive claims.

Immigrants Send $200 Billion Out Of The United States Every Year, Study Finds
Many migrants qualify for government-funded benefits even as they send their paychecks back to their home countries.

Minnesota ICE arrests have doubled under Trump
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made 878 arrests in the state between Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and June 26. During that same period in 2024, ICE made 441 arrests in Minnesota.

Anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil repeatedly refuses to condemn Hamas in tense CNN interview
The foreign-born agitator dismissed co-anchor Pamela Brown’s repeated grilling over his views on Hamas as both “absurd” and hypocritical.

DeSantis mocks illegal aliens upset their ham sandwiches weren’t toasted
At a press conference, Gov. DeSantis ridiculed detainee complaints at Florida’s ICE center, saying they were mad their sandwiches weren’t toasted — despite being fed the same meals as staff.

Babylon Bee: Hunter Biden Warns That Without Illegal Immigrants, The Price Of Prostitutes And Crack Will Skyrocket
"I used to be able to pick up a couple of Ukrainian hookers and a bag of Ready Rock that would last all weekend. Now? My regular hits of Casper the Ghost are costing me three times as much, and it's still climbing. What Trump's doing to this country isn't right, man."

Middle East...

Syria's terrorist regime just killed an American citizen — more Christians, Druze are next
Since Syria's takeover by terrorists, religious and ethnic minorities have been at the mercy of Sunni extremists.

How Assassinations of Iranian Scientists Set Back Tehran's Nuclear Program
"This time the Israeli effort is different, and recovering may be far more difficult and take far longer."

World...

Trump Withdraws US from UN Cultural Agency Over 'Woke' Agenda and Anti-Israel Bias
"Like many U.N. organizations, UNESCO strayed from its founding mission," State Department spokeswoman says.

Entertainment...

Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76 years old
Tributes poured in for the former lead singer of Black Sabbath, who is largely considered to have changed the course of music history.

How Ozzy Osbourne went from Prince of Darkness to original king of reality TV with ‘The Osbournes’
“Everything he did was kind of like a crazy rocker version of ‘Father Knows Best.’"

Flashback: Moscow Music Peace Festival — Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne
Here is the story of the musical summit that helped end the Cold War, the weekend where thousands of Russians learned to rock from America’s big-haired ambassadors.

Late-night massacre...

‘Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’: Trump Keeps Pouring Salt Into Open Wound After Colbert Ouster
"It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!"

Stephen Colbert declares ‘gloves are off’ as canceled 'Late Show' host takes aim at Trump
Could this hack be any more boring?

Speaking of hacks, here's ‘The View’
Joy Behar claimed that Colbert had his show canceled because “King” Trump was “coming for the comedians” and not allowing the “court jesters” to do their jobs.

Media...

Trump says CBS has paid its $16 + $20 million settlement in '60 Minutes' lawsuit
"Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have today paid $16 Million Dollars in settlement, and we also anticipate receiving $20 Million Dollars more from the new Owners, in Advertising, PSAs, or similar Programming, for a total of over $36 Million Dollars."

Media claims Trump focusing on real issues to ‘distract’ from Epstein files
Curtis Houck, managing editor of the Media Research Center's NewsBusters, said this lock-in-step approach from major news media organizations is nothing new.

NPR’s Top Editor Jumps Ship As Media Outlet Faces A Future Without Federal Funding
Edith Chapin, NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer, will leave the organization later this year.

CNN Doctor Who Raised Alarms Over Trump Diagnosis Is An NAACP 'Health Equity' Director, Not A Practicing Physician
Chris Pernell works to "drive equitable health outcomes and transform healthcare systems through a comprehensive socioeconomic approach valuing the whole person."

LGBTQIA2S+...

US Olympic Committee Bans Men In Women’s Sports
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee quietly changed its policy this week to comply with Trump’s executive order and ban men from competing against women.

Democrat Rahm Emanuel admits men cannot 'become' women
Potential Democrat presidential contender Rahm Emanuel on Monday admitted in an interview with Megyn Kelly that a biological male cannot actually become a woman, marking a significant break from what has become the mainstream view in his party.

Education...

Elite colleges now letting teens grade each other on empathy over hot-button issues
Top universities are accepting “Dialogues” certifications, where teens discuss divisive issues like abortion, DEI, and Gaza in Zoom chats, then score each other on traits like empathy and open-mindedness for admissions bonus credit.

Students threatened for calling Hamas 'terrorist,' illegal immigration 'a cancer' get settlement
A high school student suspended for saying "illegal aliens" also gets a payout to cover his private school. A professor who banned a Christian student from defending gun rights was removed from class.

AI...

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI
Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington.

OpenAI CEO warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’
Sam Altman says AI has already broken most forms of identity verification and could soon enable undetectable video scams.

July 23, 2008 - Stu reports live from a hurricane.. DNC avoiding gas tax... Guest Sarah Steelman... Guns... John Edwards' alleged mistress... Patterson and his goal to get more kids to read... Stu comes out against books, Glenn strongly disagrees...

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.