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Morning Brief 2022-08-09

August 09, 2022
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Sen. Mike Lee
TOPIC: Serious legal questions are raised after the FBI raids President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Alan Dershowitz
TOPIC: The FBI raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Rep. Thomas Massie
TOPIC: The Democrats' weaponization of the IRS and all federal agencies.

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM, SB

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FBI Raids Trump's Home...

Trump disqualified from holding office? Clinton-linked lawyer points to US Code after FBI raid
Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary’s 2016 campaign who had a role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion, claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071: "The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics."

Team Biden Claims ‘No Advance Knowledge’ of FBI Raid on Donald Trump’s House at Mar-A-Lago
“No advance knowledge. Some learned from old media, some from social media,” a senior White House official told CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe when asked about the raid.

Trump Supporters Gather Outside Mar-a-Lago After FBI Raid
There are reports that local law enforcement are telling the gathering supporters to leave. However, one Twitter user claimed that Trump’s supporters were still pouring in to show support for the former president despite police requests.

Report: FBI Grabbed Boxes Without Going Through Them or Knowing What’s In Them
“They were not being judicious about what they took,” the source tells Fox News.

Mueller prosecutor on the FBI's Trump raid
"I'd be advising my client to tell their family I'm looking at jail time"

Hollywood Celebrities Cheer as FBI Raids Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Far-left Hollywood celebrities openly cheered news that the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, hoping it would lead to an arrest.

Leftists, Media Gloat over FBI Raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: ‘No One Is Pardoning Him’
Democrats and the media on Monday gloated on Twitter over the FBI’s reported raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Flashback: Why the FBI Didn't Want to Charge Hillary Clinton
For Clinton to be prosecuted, there would have to be more than just an allegation of her mishandling classified information through her use of a private server for her emails.

Politicians Respond to FBI's Trump Raid...

'Banana Republic': Ron DeSantis slams FBI Mar-a-Lago raid
"The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic."

Top progressive Dem says 'Trump should be in jail' after FBI raid
"Donald Trump should be in jail. I’m glad to see the FBI taking steps towards accountability," Rep. Pramila Jayapal said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Blasts FBI for Raiding Trump but Not Obama, Clinton
“Bill and Hillary Clinton took $28,000 worth of furnishings from the White House. Obama violated the Presidential Records Act,” Blackburn tweeted. “Why did the FBI not raid their houses?”

Thomas Massie: A President Just Raided a Former President, His Political Opponent
"There are only three branches of government. The FBI is works for the current President."

Unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department: Kristi Noem
"The FBI raid on President Trump’s home is an unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department. They’ve been after President Trump as a candidate, as President, and now as a former President. Using the criminal justice system in this manner is un-American."

Nikki Haley Calls on Biden to Answer for Raid on Mar-a-Lago
"The American people must always trust their government. The DOJ and FBI don’t have the luxury of saying 'no comment'. If they won’t comment, then Biden owes it to the American people to answer for his agencies. If Biden doesn’t act, then Congress needs to handle this."

Bernie Kerik: 'If FBI Raid Will Not Stop Donald Trump – Their Next Step Will Be Assassination'
"And just like in other Third World countries, if today’s raid by Biden’s FBI does not stop Donald Trump from running for president in 2024, their next move will be Assassination."

Kevin McCarthy To Merrick Garland: 'Preserve Your Documents and Clear Your Calendar'
"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned."

Marco Rubio: FBI Raids Trump’s Home, Ignores Pro-Abortion Violence
“Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships,” he tweeted. “But never before in America”

Media Responds to FBI's Trump Raid...

RedState: After the FBI's Trump Raid, Don't Take the Bait
There is nothing the Biden administration and the left at large want more than another January 6th moment before the mid-terms.

CNN: The vise is tightening around Donald Trump as 2024 decision looms
Trump is far more likely to see a 2024 run for president curtailed by legal problems than political ones.

CNN: The extraordinary political storm unleashed by the FBI search of Trump's Florida resort
It also comes with the ex-President itching to launch a 2024 campaign rooted in his false claims of electoral fraud, which his authoritarian rhetoric suggests would present a profound challenge to democracy.

WaPo: The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago instantly became entangled with politics
Politicization was inevitable, given the advantage Trump thinks it offers

WaPo: Top Republicans echo Trump’s evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search
Their quick defense of Trump and combative posture underlined the former president’s status as a standard-bearer in the party, even as he was tainted anew by another investigation.

The Atlantic: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic
A bedrock principle is that no one—not even the president, much less the former president—is above the law, and if they commit crimes they must answer for them.

Brian Stelter: How the extraordinary FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was covered across the media landscape
The MAGA media message is: The government is corrupt, the FBI is a threat to real Americans, the Democrats are to blame, and the Republicans are going to correct it.

Other Responses to FBI's Trump Raid...

Steve Bannon Reacts To The FBI Raiding Mar-a-Lago
"They're absolutely petrified Trump is going to announce in the next couple of weeks, win the Republican nomination, win the White House. This is so outrageous. It needs to be investigated."

Dershowitz: Trump Raid ‘Improper’ — ‘This Is Misconduct’
“The raid is supposed to be a last resort,” he said. “But this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies."

Alyssa Farah Griffin warns FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago could 'tear the country apart'
The Trump staffer turned critic said on CNN that she worries for the stability of the country in the aftermath of the FBI raid on Trump's Florida resort.

Alex Jones: Deep State Coup Has Begun
"FBI raids have finally reached the former president of the United States as Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence was invaded by an army of Feds under the guise of looking for classified documents."

Politics...

WaPo: Inside Biden’s hot streak, from the poolside to the Capitol
His challenge now, supporters say, is to turn this moment into a pivot point that reorients his presidency and energizes Democrats.

Biden says ‘inflation’ bill funds health care, ‘God knows what else’ in bizarre speech
“We’ve never done this before, but because of a number of things we got done on a bipartisan basis — like a billion, 200 million-dollar infrastructure project — like what we’re doing today, we passed yesterday, helping take care of everything from health care to God knows what else...”

Biden implies we'll soon control the weather
Biden yells at victims of a tornado, then proceeds to tell them, "The weather may be beyond our control, for now, but it’s not beyond our control."

Dem committee: Gun companies emphasize masculinity and reference white supremacist groups to sell assault rifles
"The [gun] industry is both creating these customers and marketing to them. And therefore, it's propagating more of this radicalization," Ryan Busse said.

Liz Cheney’s Husband Is Partner At Law Firm Representing Hunter Biden
Philip Perry, who is married Liz Cheney, is a partner at the same law firm representing Joe Biden’s scandal-ridden son, Hunter.

Liz Cheney 'would find it very difficult' to back Ron DeSantis for president
"I think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that's very dangerous," Cheney said.

Dem strategist: DeSantis is a "scarier prospect" than Trump
“What’s inexplicable to me is, why — not just Joe Biden — but the entire Democratic establishment isn’t trying to disqualify him now in the governor’s race.”

Pro-Impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Loses To Trump-Backed Primary Challenger
Retired Green Beret Joe Kent defeated Republican Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in a primary challenge stemming from her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Recall of far-left LA DA Gascon threatened by 'failure' to follow law, group claims
Gascon's recall is being undermined by Los Angeles County officials who are not following the law, giving the prosecutor the edge, a campaign to unseat him explosively claims.

Economy...

Wait and see: U.S. companies curb investment as they await Fed moves
Business investment appears to be an early victim of red-hot U.S. inflation and rising interest rates.

Amid inflation, people desperate for cash are turning to pawn shops
Rick Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' shared his observations amid today's higher prices of food, gas, and more

Groupon cuts over 500 staff
The reduction impacted workers in teams including merchant development, sales, recruiting, engineering, product, and marketing.

WAR News... 

US to send Ukraine $5.5 billion in new fiscal, military aid
The United States will send an additional $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, made up of $4.5 billion in budgetary support and $1 billion in military assistance, to help it come to grips with the turmoil of this year's Russian invasion.

Fears Of Nuclear Incident Grow As Shells Strike Plant That Dwarfs Chernobyl
Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station — Europe’s largest — early in the war.

MONKEYVID-19...

Anger and anxiety stalk EU’s monkeypox vaccine lottery
Vaccine tourism is back as people seek to protect themselves against illness and stigma.

Claim: Insurance Companies Reported ‘Unexplained’ Spike in Young Adult Deaths in Late 2021
It's a very sketchy claim as it relies on anonymous sources claiming they saw internal data, which is not provided. We do know that deaths from drug overdoses and sucide have spiked and stayed high since early COVID lockdowns.

American schools spent millions on COVID scanners that didn’t work
As stories break regularly about fraudulent use of COVID relief money, a new report has found yet another extensive case of poorly spent funds related to tackling the virus.

Babylon Bee: Biden Invites Group Of Kids To White House To See If His Sense Of Smell Has Returned
After finally testing negative for COVID, President Biden has invited a group of kids back to the White House to see if his sense of smell has returned.

Commie Update...

The US made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China
Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy.

China’s military extends drills near Taiwan after Pelosi trip
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Monday that the exercises were aimed at "sending a warning" to those seeking Taiwan independence.

Maritime insurance industry sees little elevated risk from China’s exercises
On Feb. 15, maritime insurers decided an invasion was imminent and raised the Russian and Ukrainian waters to the industry’s highest risk category. At the moment, there is no such change with Taiwan.

Entertainment...

David McCullough, Award-Winning American Historian, Dies at 89
McCullough was known for writing multiple books on American history and winning two Pulitzer Prizes for his writings on American presidents Harry Truman in 1994 and John Adams in 2001.

American Audiences Flock To Non-Woke Entertainment
Tom Cruise’s "Top Gun: Maverick" became the seventh-highest grossing film domestically, earning a jaw-dropping $662 million in the United States alone. It surpassed "Titanic" as Paramount’s biggest film in the 110-year history of the studio.

Anne Heche in a coma in 'extreme critical condition' following fiery crash, manager says
A representative for Heche had previously said Saturday that the actress was in "stable condition."

Ashton Kutcher ‘Lucky to Be Alive’ After Autoimmune Disease That Left Him Unable to See, Hear, or Walk
Kutcher says he had a “super rare form of vasculitis” that caused him to temporarily lose a few of his core senses

Ezra Miller charged with felony burglary in Vermont
“The Flash” star was charged after the homeowners reported the missing bottles of booze to police on May 1.

Media...

Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million
Axios was founded in 2016 by the same leaders who built Politico, with a focus on politics, tech and business. In 2020, it began a significant expansion into local news.

Latest MSM Claim: Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet
Newly revealed photographs reveal two occasions on which Trump apparently flushed documents down the toilet.

Trump Said Wounded Veterans In Military Parades Didn’t 'Look Good' For Him: Leftist Book Claims
Very believable.

Trump Complained His Generals Did Not Act Enough Like Hitler's: Leftist Book Claims
Very believable.

Environment...

EPA Agents Are Flying Helicopters Over Texas Oil Fields To Crack Down On Methane Emissions From Drilling
The EPA is conducting helicopter flyovers over the Permian Basin to identify “super-emitters” of methane gas among oil and gas operations, according to an Aug. 1 news release.

Climate Change Is Supercharging Most Infectious Diseases, New Study Claims
“I have to tell you that as this database started to grow, I started to get scared, man,” the lead author said.

LGTQIA2S+...

UK justice secretary plans to bar men from women's prisons
"It's obvious a woman cannot be born with a penis"

Education...

School district apologizes for logo resembling swastika on shirt given to staff at conference
“We are deeply sorry for this mistake and for the emotions that the logo has evoked by its semblance to a swastika. We condemn anything associated with the Nazi regime in the strongest manner possible.”

Technology...

Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home
In buying iRobot, the e-commerce titan gets a data collection machine that comes with a vacuum.

August 9, 2010 - Stu & Pat resign after explosive, completely in-context Media Matters report... Boy Scouts boo Obama... White House upset at coverage of Michelle’s vacation…

August 9, 2011 - Obama blames economy on everyone but himself... Did Barney Frank cut the cheese on live TV?... Pastor Hagee talks about the bomb threat he received...

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?

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

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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.