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Morning Brief 2025-08-01

August 01, 2025
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TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: John Solomon
TOPIC: The SMOKING gun in the newly released documents from the Durham report annex.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Vivek Ramaswamy
TOPIC: Why the Cincinnati brawl became a national flashpoint.

Russiagate...

Soros exec predicted FBI would fuel Trump-Russia smear, declassified docs reveal
A top Open Society official expected the FBI to help escalate Clinton’s disinformation campaign tying Trump to Russian hackers, according to the newly released Durham annex.

Docs: Clinton team denied knowledge of Russia hoax despite email saying she ‘approved’ plan
Declassified annex shows Clinton and top aides disavowed any role in the Trump-Russia smear, even as internal communications pointed to her direct approval of the scheme.

NY Times: ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows
An annex to a report by the special counsel John H. Durham was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

FBI said evidence wasn’t enough to investigate Obama AG, then investigated Trump with far less
The declassified Durham annex shows the FBI buried intel tying Loretta Lynch to Clinton campaign coordination while greenlighting a years-long Trump-Russia probe built on discredited opposition research.

Classified documents were safer at Mar-a-Lago than with the FBI
While the FBI staged a photo op to justify raiding Trump, it was secretly stashing and marking for destruction thousands of documents tied to the Russia hoax — and then it tried to keep them hidden from investigators.

After alleged Clinton Russia ruse was intercepted by US intel, Biden took first shot smearing Trump
Then Vice President Joe Biden publicly linked Trump to Putin right around the same time that Hillary Clinton had signed off on the "Clinton Plan intelligence" that laid out that strategy.

News...

A 'beautiful' ballroom and a new Lincoln bathroom: Trump relishes remaking the White House
In an interview with NBC News, the president discussed his renovation plans for the most famous house in America.

Sprawling new $200M White House ballroom to be paid for by Trump and donors
The new 90,000-square-foot addition will accommodate approximately 650 seated guests.

Trump Spills Secret Service Agent’s Wife-Smuggling Plan
An investigation is now underway over the incident, which the president described as “weird.”

Mike Lee bill aims to stop judges from blocking Trump’s US attorney picks
Sen. Mike Lee is introducing legislation to strip federal courts of power to appoint U.S. attorneys, restoring that authority solely to the president and attorney general after judges refused to seat Trump’s nominees in New York and New Jersey.

Russian woman beaten in viral Cincinnati brawl returns home as attacker's family says race is driving national outrage
“If it was an African American woman who got knocked out ... we wouldn’t have been going through all this.”

Black, Hispanic Americans More Likely Than Whites To Think DEI Increases Discrimination Against Them, Poll Finds
Around 40% of black adults and 33% of Hispanic adults say DEI backfires, compared with about 25% of white adults.

LA wildfires caused $51.7 billion in losses
January’s devastating fires leveled nearly 11,000 homes, including dozens in Pacific Palisades, where the average destroyed property was worth $3.7 million — making it the third-most destructive blaze in California history.

Tower failed to warn plane of Black Hawk’s path before DC crash, FAA says
It was the first acknowledgment by the Federal Aviation Administration of a possible error by the controller in the moments before the collision that claimed 67 lives.

Michigan Supreme Court blocks scheme that let government profit off seized homes
After years of dodging a prior ruling, Michigan officials were told they can’t sell off tax-delinquent homes through shell nonprofits and keep the profits — ending another chapter of legalized theft from struggling property owners.

Tariffs...

White House releases new tariff rates for dozens of countries after months of negotiations
The Trump administration released a revised list of tariff rates against nearly 70 countries set to take effect next week.

Appeals court questions Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs
Judges sounded doubtful as DOJ defended Trump’s claim that the 1977 IEEPA law lets him set global tariffs unilaterally — a move critics call an unconstitutional power grab from Congress.

Politics...

Top Biden aide Mike Donilon claims he had no clue about autopen
Donilon told Congress he was unaware of the autopen’s use, defended Biden’s fitness after the June debate, and admitted receiving $4 million for campaign work — half of the $8 million he would have earned if Biden hadn’t dropped out.

Young men swing hard right as GOP support surges in Pew poll
Republicans now lead among 18-29-year-old men after flipping a 62-36 Democrat advantage in just two years, with major losses for Democrats across nearly all voters born after 1980.

Gen Z begins drifting back to Democrats as Trump approval collapses in new CBS/YouGov poll
Trump’s net approval among 18-29-year-olds has cratered to -44, with Pew also showing Gen Z now leans Democrat 49% to 43% after briefly favoring Republicans in 2024.

Kamala Harris pivots to horror, pens memoir titled '107 Days'
After ruling out a 2026 run for California governor, Harris announced her next project: a memoir about her doomed presidential bid, ominously titled "107 Days" — a chilling new entry in unintentional horror.

Kamala Harris Posts Cringe TikTok Stating She Has Not Been ‘Drinking Margaritas On The Beach’
Harris’ TikTok post appears to be an attempt at the “Who Said That” trend in which users turn their faces away from the camera to obscure their mouths while making bold statements. However, Harris’ mouth can be seen moving as she failed to cover it with her hand throughout the video.

Cory Booker slams job cuts within State Department staff for African aid. But ...
Spartacus called for expanded staffing and funding to support African aid programs, only to be told by a top official that no cuts were made under Trump and that the Africa bureau had actually grown.

Elizabeth Warren falls on Senate floor during anti-Israel vote, helped up by Republicans
It’s unclear if she simply lost her balance or had too much firewater before the vote.

Fang Fang’s boyfriend mocked for weak bench press and pathetic challenge to Gutfeld
Rep. Eric Swalwell got roasted after posting a gym video whining about the Epstein files, with Gutfeld quipping, “With a bench press like that, no one will mind if you use the women's locker room.” That prompted Swalwell to challenge Gutfeld to a loser-leaves-town bench-press contest.

Zohran Mamdani holds wide edge among Jewish voters in new NYC mayoral race poll
The poll found that 43% of Jewish voters in the U.S. city said they would vote for Mamdani, including 67% of Jewish voters aged 18 to 44. Cuomo trailed with 26% of Jewish voters, followed by Mayor Eric Adams with 15%.

Economy...

Trump officials push rare earths price floor to counter China, ramp up US production
In a closed-door meeting, top White House officials told rare earth firms and tech giants they plan to fast-track a U.S. critical minerals revival — backing price guarantees and invoking an Operation Warp Speed strategy to break China’s supply chain grip.

SEC launches 'Project Crypto' to overhaul rules and make US global blockchain hub
Chair Paul Atkins says the Trump administration aims to modernize securities laws to enable crypto-based trading, tokenization, and super apps — moving markets from “off-chain to on-chain” and keeping innovation on U.S. soil.

Immigration...

US citizenship test to get a MAGA makeover, made tougher to pass
The Trump administration plans to scrap the dumbed-down civics quiz in favor of a more rigorous exam aimed at reinforcing American values and weeding out memorization.

ICE offers up to $50K signing bonuses, loan forgiveness in effort to hire 10,000 more officers
“Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated.

Democrat calls ICE ‘Nazi Gestapo,’ vows ‘day of reckoning’ over gang member arrest
Rhode Island Rep. Enrique Sanchez threatened to confront ICE agents after they arrested a known MS-13 member, accusing them of “terrorizing” neighborhoods and comparing the operation to Nazi tactics.

Turley: 'This is BS, Plain and Simple' — Democrats Sue to Gain Unlimited Access to Federal Facilities
After a group of House and Senate Democrats staged a sit-in outside a Baltimore ICE office, they filed a lawsuit demanding unrestricted entry — ignoring federal law that permits DHS to require 24-hour notice and limits oversight access to detention sites.

Israel...

Megyn Kelly, other MAGA stars are questioning US support for Israel as Gaza war rages
“Israel, whether it realizes it or not, has made itself the villain of the world in letting this thing go on so long. They have lost support among their dearest friends,” said Kelly, typically a stalwart ally of the president’s agenda.

Trump sends Huckabee and Witkoff to Gaza as hunger crisis supposedly worsens
Amid growing reports of starvation, Trump dispatched Ambassador Huckabee and envoy Steve Witkoff to Gaza to assess aid efforts and plan U.S.-Israel-run food centers.

How the ‘neutral’ UN is helping Hamas oppress Gazans and fool the world
Hamas is looting U.N. aid trucks, taxing black-market sales, and filling its own warehouses while Gazans starve — and U.N. staff, many of them Hamas affiliates, are enabling it.

‘Irredeemably Compromised’: Trump Admin Tells Congress Hamas-Linked UNRWA Must Be Dismantled
The assessment indicates that the U.S. has fully lost faith in the organization after months of revelations that at least a dozen UNRWA employees participated in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attacks against Israel.

PIJ releases video of hostage Rom Braslavski; ‘They broke him,’ family says
Will the New York Times put this on the cover of their next issue?

Ukraine - Russia...

Trump’s Deadline for Ukraine Peace Deal Set for August 8, US Tells UN
A senior American diplomat told the UN Security Council that Trump expects Russia and Ukraine to strike a peace deal by August 8 – or face serious economic pressure from the U.S.

Canada...

Trump says Canada’s Palestine statehood stance may hurt trade deal
"Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh Canada!!!"

Katy Perry, Justin Trudeau fuel romance buzz with Montreal tour stop appearance
Wait, Katy Perry is a lesbian?

Europe...

The UK Keeps Threatening To Censor American Tech Companies
X has begun restricting content related to Gaza for its U.K. users, and Reddit has implemented age-verification measures to view posts about cigars.

Record number of foreign sex offenders and violent criminals jailed in UK
New data shows foreign criminals now make up over 12% of the U.K. prison population, with sex and violence convictions rising nearly three times faster than among Brits — costing taxpayers £360 million a year.

Middle East...

Video: Ride snaps in half at amusement park in Saudi Arabia
At least 23 people were injured, three of them critically, when a fairground ride buckled in Saudi Arabia, sending passengers crashing to the ground.

Latin America...

Texas family dumps US for new, ‘safer’ life in Central American jungle: ‘My kids can finally go out alone’
Citing cost savings and safety, a military family sold everything and relocated from Amarillo to Panama, where they now live cheaply, grow their own food, and say their kids enjoy more freedom.

Entertainment...

Palantir insiders plan film studio to revive unapologetically American movies
Founders Films, led by allies of Peter Thiel, aims to rebuild the “American Cinematic Universe” with bold, risk-taking movies in the spirit of "Red Dawn" and "Top Gun," pushing back against Hollywood’s progressive drift and corporate cowardice.

Media...

Daily Beast pulls story alleging Melania-Epstein connection after lawyers dispute framing
The Daily Beast has pulled an article detailing allegations by journalist Michael Wolff that Melania Trump was introduced to her husband Donald Trump via a modeling agent connected to Jeffrey Epstein, after a challenge from the first lady’s lawyers.

Public broadcasting board members cry, quote Shakespeare and Russell Crowe after Congress yanks NPR funding
CPB leaders broke into tears and compared themselves to battlefield heroes after Congress voted to defund NPR over its left-wing bias, with the president admitting bias exists but insisting it’s no reason to “shut down everything.”

Health...

Trump says he asked 17 drugmakers to take steps to cut US prices within 60 days
Trump threatened to “deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families from continued abusive drug pricing practices” if companies refuse to comply. He asked for each company to commit to his several goals by Sept. 29.

Trump brings back Presidential Fitness Test in public schools that Obama killed with event featuring top sports stars
The president hosted a group of athletes at the White House, including golfer Bryson DeChambeau, professional wrestler Triple H, NFL Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, and former NFL New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor.

'Like a sci-fi movie': US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record
The Pierces had tried to have a child for seven years before they decided to adopt the embryo Linda Archerd, 62, made with her then-husband in 1994 through IVF.

AI...

Search Transformed: The Rise Of Agentic AI
Today, AI bots and agents are driving more than 50% of web traffic. On our clients’ e-commerce websites alone, traffic from AI bots has more than doubled since February this year.

Science...

Clouds Force Last-Minute Delay for Astronaut Launch to the International Space Station
Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday’s planned launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. The countdown was halted at the one-minute, seven-second mark.

August 1, 2008 - Glenn talks to college student Obama supporters... Nancy Pelosi's new book... Gas and drilling... Pat Gray... Stu and the 'Mamma Mia!' bet... Velveeta vs. Flemaski... Spain's energy future under socialism... History...

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

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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.