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Morning Brief 2025-08-19

August 19, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.)
TOPIC: The left will stop at NOTHING to win in the courts and BEYOND.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Melanie Phillips
TOPIC: A breakdown of the Western liberal mind and progressivism.

News...

Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director
Andrew Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

Former AG Bill Barr: No Trump ties to Epstein, Dems playing politics
Testifying Monday behind closed doors before the House Oversight Committee, former AG William Barr said he never saw evidence tying Trump to Epstein and argued the Biden administration would have leaked anything damaging if it existed. Barr also said that Trump never interfered with his investigation into Epstein.

DOJ To Start Giving Congress Epstein Docs By Week’s End, House Oversight Chair Says
"I appreciate the Trump administration’s commitment to transparency."

Trump faces fewer openings to reshape federal courts in second term
Despite his first-term success with three Supreme Court justices and a wave of conservative appointments, fewer retirements and longer-serving judges mean the president may have limited chances to shift the judiciary’s balance this time around.

Georgia man arrested for threatening to assassinate President Trump
Porter’s comments included, “So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes,” “I’m gonna kill Donald Trump. I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside his forehead,” and he declared, “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die. … I’m gonna do that.”

US attorney announces arrest of NY woman who traveled to DC and threatened to kill Trump
Pirro said Nathalie Rose Jones was arrested and "charged with two federal crimes for knowingly and willfully threatening to take the life of the president of the United States."

FireAid wildfire benefit charity accused of diverting relief cash
Formed after January’s Los Angeles wildfires, the celebrity concert fund raised $100 million; House Republicans say $75 million went to nonprofits while $25 million remains unspent, and they’re demanding that the remainder go directly to victims.

Court Kills California's One-Gun-a-Month Law
There’s no historical precedent for trying to ration constitutionally protected rights.

I lost my freedom, money, and guns based on no evidence and with no chance to defend myself
Protection from Abuse orders let courts strip fathers of their children, homes, and rights on accusation alone, forcing them into costly programs and restrictions without trial or conviction.

States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel
Under its “20 is Plenty” campaign, the Wisconsin capital of Madison has been changing signs across the city this summer, lowering the speed limit from 25 mph to 20 mph on local residential streets.

Kentucky lottery winner arrested in Florida bar fight after kicking deputy in the face
Just a day after claiming a $167 million jackpot, a Kentucky man was arrested at a St. Pete Beach resort for allegedly assaulting a deputy during a drunken brawl, with bodycam video showing him tased and shouting that he was a millionaire.

DC / Crime...

Trump Says DC Is Under 'Serious Investigation' for Manipulating Crime Stats
"D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety," Trump posted on Truth Social. "This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!"

White House blasts media over DC moped arrest story
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said reports portraying an innocent rider’s arrest were false, saying the suspect was a Venezuelan illegal alien with gang ties who gave an officer a concussion while resisting arrest.

6 days after calling DC crime crisis ‘nonexistent,’ NYT’s Peter Baker complains Trump isn’t fixing crime
After dismissing Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police as based on a “nonexistent” problem, the Times reporter is now faulting the president for not stopping the very crime wave he claimed didn’t exist.

Salon: Black mayors challenge Trump’s lawless narrative
Trump has repeatedly singled out cities with Black leadership — including Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Oakland — as examples of urban decline. Critics say his claims ignore measurable improvements achieved through community partnerships, violence-intervention programs, and city-led public safety strategies.

Washington state crime rate surges as police staffing levels tank
While the rest of the country is seeing declines in violent crime, Washington is moving in the opposite direction.

Politics...

Trump vows to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of 2026
The president said he will issue an executive order to end mail-in voting and scrap electronic machines, calling them inaccurate, costly, and ripe for fraud, while urging Republicans to restore election integrity.

Trump's Approval Rating Surges After Putin Summit
According to polling by InsiderAdvantage (considered credible, slightly left-leaning), 54% of voters said they now approved of the president while 44% disapproved. Trump's net +10% approval rating is an increase from the publication's last poll in July, which gave him a net +2% approval rating.

Bedford: The tectonic vibe shift absolutely remaking American culture
There has been a profound cultural shift in American politics, in which Republicans have gained a cool, rebellious edge through sharp social media content and bold leadership while Democrats struggle with outdated, preachy messaging that fails to resonate.

DNC donors cut off cash as party flounders under new leadership
The RNC holds $80 million in reserve compared to just $15 million for Democrats, with major donors and unions turning away from Chairman Ken Martin’s “rudderless” operation after Kamala Harris’ failed campaign drained millions and internal feuds drove out top allies.

Texas Democrats return to state, ending redistricting standoff ahead of new legislative session
The state Democrats decided to return after the first special legislative session ended, and California Democrats created their own redistricting plan to counter the Texas GOP's, NBC News reported.

Mamdani dominates NYC mayoral poll with radical left agenda
The Democratic primary winner leads the crowded field with 42%, far ahead of Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams, as he pushes tax hikes, a rent freeze, and free public services that have made him the progressive front-runner.

Blaze News: Stop calling Zohran Mamdani a communist — he’s something worse
Those calling Mamdani a “communist” are playing to Boomer-era Republican fixations. They’re appealing to people who still see politics through Cold War lenses — the bad guys are “commies,” and anyone unwilling to bury socialism is the enemy.

Immigration...

Jeffries predicts Noem will be one of first Trump officials to testify if Dems retake House in 2026
"The lack of respect for due process, for the rule of law, the unleashing of masked agents on law-abiding immigrant communities, and the disappearing of people in some instances to other countries without any real evidence that criminal behavior took place."

DHS slams Gavin Newsom for falsely claiming illegal immigrant trucker who killed 3 in Florida was granted work permit by Trump admin
"Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally, and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump administration on September 14, 2020. It was later approved under the Biden administration June 9, 2021."

COVID...

COVID found to speed up aging of blood vessels, study shows
Researchers say even mild infections can stiffen arteries by the equivalent of five years, especially in women, raising long-term risks of heart attack and stroke.

Ukraine - Russia...

Putin, Zelenskyy To Meet Face-To-Face Within Two Weeks: German Chancellor
President Trump will join in a meeting with the two warring leaders after the initial meetup, Trump said.

Trump stresses need to resolve territory dispute, security guarantees to end Ukraine War
"We're going to help them, and we're going to make it very secure," he added. "We also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory."

Hot mic catches Trump saying Putin 'wants to make a deal'
The president whispered to France’s Emmanuel Macron that Putin was eager to strike an agreement, following a summit where Trump secured what NATO called a breakthrough pledge on security guarantees for Ukraine.

NY Times: Can Zelenskyy Trust Trump? Ukraine’s Fate May Depend on the Answer.
President Trump has offered only vague assurances of security guarantees for Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agrees to cut a deal with Russia.

The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way
This formula — Ukrainian territorial concessions in exchange for security and political independence — was always how the Ukraine war was going to end. The corporate press is pretending to be shocked and scandalized by the mention of an adjustment of Ukraine’s borders, but the outrage is feigned.

Zelenskyy earns accolades from Trump for wearing suit to White House
"President Zelenskyy, you look fabulous in that suit," said Real America's Voice reporter Brian Glenn, who previously questioned Zelenskyy about his wardrobe during the last trip. "I said the same thing," quipped Trump.

Politico: Zelenskyy wears military-style ‘suit’ to Trump summit
Zelenskyy “is now in a state where every detail matters — his appearance, mood, emotions,” one of the Ukrainian president’s designers told Politico ahead of the meeting.

Trump points out iconic image from Butler assassination attempt to European leaders
“That was not a good day," Trump said. "That was not a great day."

Zelenskyy delivers letter from his wife to first lady Melania Trump thanking her for efforts to end the war
“My wife, the first lady of Ukraine, she gave the letter. It’s not to you but to your wife."

Middle East...

With EVERY photo of a ‘starving’ Gazan proving fake, how can you believe the famine claims?
All the world media desperate to offer clear evidence of famine have yet to find even a single Gazan healthy before the war but now suffering from actual starvation and not other illnesses.

BBC Claims Gazan Woman With Cancer Died Of Malnutrition
“Malnourished Gaza woman flown to Italy dies in hospital," the original headline stated.

China...

Sam Altman warns US is underestimating China’s AI race
The OpenAI chief said export controls won’t be enough to slow Beijing’s progress, pointing to Chinese chip fabs and open-source models, and admitted that competition from China pushed OpenAI to release its own open-weight systems.

Entertainment...

Chris Pratt mocks Trump haters for being 'allergic' to good policy, defends RFK Jr.
Pratt is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, whose mother, Maria Shriver, is part of the Kennedy family. This has put the actor in close reach of RFK Jr., the United States secretary of health and human services.

Emotional Teenage Girl James Comey Speaks In Taylor Swift Lyrics In Unhinged Anti-Trump Screed
"Swiftie" James Comey released a five-minute video talking about how Taylor Swift inspires him and how she helps him deal with Trump. "At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, CT, 14 years ago, she sang a song about this topic, asking ... 'Why you gotta be so mean?'" Comey said while quoting Swift's 2010 song "Mean."

Media...

MSNBC to Rebrand as MS Now, Dropping Peacock Logo Amid Corporate Split from NBC
The far-left network will rebrand as part of an effort by its parent company to draw a clearer distinction between the networks under its purview.

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over 2020 election claims
While denying that its reporting was defamatory, Newsmax claimed it settled because it believed the court overseeing the case would not provide a fair trial. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, who oversaw both the Fox and Newsmax cases, had already ruled that Newsmax defamed Dominion.

Environment...

Google bets on small nuclear plant to power AI data centers
Google and startup Kairos Power will build a first-of-its-kind advanced nuclear reactor in Tennessee by 2030, with TVA agreeing to buy up to 50 megawatts of electricity to power Google’s data centers while shielding consumers from the project’s cost.

Energy group urges DOJ probe into ‘climate lawfare’ campaign targeting judges
Power the Future says left-wing activists are using the Climate Judiciary Project to push judges toward pro-climate litigation stances, accusing the effort of quietly shaping courts to impose green policies outside the legislative process.

Education...

Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6,000 student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorism
"Every single student visa revoked under the Trump administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States," a senior State Department official said.

The most conservative college in the US is just outside Los Angeles
Just outside liberal L.A., tiny Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, with its 372 Catholic undergrads, snagged the title of most conservative college in the Princeton Review’s 2026 guide.

AI...

Anthropic gives Claude AI power to end harmful chats to protect the model, not users
Anthropic just equipped Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 with the ability to end chats believed to be harmful/abusive as part of the company’s research on model wellness, marking one of the first AI welfare deployments in consumer chatbots.

He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.

How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t.
Technology that can conjure people, animals, and entire scenes is advancing so quickly that professionals warn it’s hard for them to tell what’s real or AI.

Madison Avenue Is Starting to Love AI
Advertisers are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence to make their commercials.

AI has created a new breed of cat video: addictive, disturbing, and nauseatingly quick soap operas
Mostly soundtracked by cats meowing a Billie Eilish song, these AI-generated fantasias tell tales of cheating, revenge, and violence — and are being watched by millions.

Sports...

‘Creative Differences’: ESPN Axes Spike Lee’s Doc About Colin Kaepernick
"ESPN, Colin Kaepernick, and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project."

August 19, 2008 - Roseanne insults Glenn... Obama's VP picks... Polls... Glenn talks about the Olympics... Life on Campus series on Headline News... Heads of universities want to lower the drinking age...

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

NurPhoto / Contributor | Getty Images

Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

Barbara Davidson / Contributor | Getty Images

In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

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.

POLL: Can Trump make D.C. great again?

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For years, Washington, D.C., has been a symbol of everything wrong with big government—riddled with crime, manipulated stats, and soft-on-crime policies that let gangs terrorize innocent citizens while the elite turn a blind eye. Now, President Trump is stepping up, deploying federal agents after a savage attack on a hero like Edward Coristine, vowing no more "Mr. Nice Guy" as he promises to jail criminals, clear out the homeless encampments, and restore order just like he sealed the border. This isn't just a crackdown; it's a reclamation of our capital from the chaos liberals have unleashed.

Glenn has already covered this on his radio show, exposing how legacy media and Democrats twist crime numbers. They claim that there was a 35% drop in crime while ignoring FBI data showing only a 10% decline, and murders are still sky-high compared to pre-pandemic days. Trump's policies draw parallels to the 1990s, when Congress took control and turned things around, proving that strong leadership can counteract progressive failures. With Democratic mayors crying "power grab" in failing cities like Chicago and Baltimore, it's clear: Trump's bold move is a lifeline for liberty, not a threat. Our capital should be a shining example of America, where leaders can work in peace and foreign representatives can see what this nation stands for without fearing for their lives.

Our nation's heart is at risk from the gaslighting establishment that benefits from disorder, absurdly framing Trump's actions as a "military takeover." Is this the leadership America needs, or will we let the swamp dictate the narrative?

Glenn wants to know what YOU think: Can we trust the media's spin? Should Trump expand this fight? Make your voice heard in the poll below:

Do you support President Trump's deployment of federal agents to crack down on D.C. crime?

Do you believe liberal media and Democrats are manipulating crime stats to undermine Trump's efforts?

Is Trump's plan to jail criminals and relocate the homeless a necessary step to restore order in our capital?

Do you see Democratic policies as the root cause of rising violence in cities like D.C., Chicago, and Baltimore?

Should Trump extend this federal intervention to other failing blue cities to protect American liberty?