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Saving DC - August 12th, Hour 1
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It's really fascinating to watch the left, the radical left in this country.
They don't care about simple, basic, fundamental, you know, 85-15, 90-10, 80-20 issues.
If they are that out of touch and they don't understand that Americans in small towns and big cities want law and order and safety and security, I don't know what they're thinking.
And by the way, we have a lot of news to break today because it turns out, according to the D.C. police union chief, apparently complaining that police all over the Metropolitan Police in Washington, D.C. are being pressured to falsify violent crime statistics.
The D.C. police union chief, quote, to evade public scrutiny, Metropolitan Police Department leadership is deliberately falsifying crime data, creating a false narrative of reduced crime while communities suffer, which goes dead set against the big narrative, the big lie that, oh, no, no, violent crime is down to a 30-year low.
Well, yeah, if you cook the books, I'm sure that it is down to a 30-year low.
But this is what this goes back to, you know, if you remember for years, we were lied to repeatedly about the border being closed and the border being secure.
Biden said it.
Every Democrat said it.
Kamala Harris said it.
Mayorkas said it.
Borders closed, borders closed, borders closed.
I can play it.
I won't waste your time.
But they all promised that the border was closed, border was secure.
We all knew otherwise because our eyes on a regular basis.
Now, the state-run legacy media mob, officially now dead, gone, and buried, rest in peace, they did not do their job.
They did not inform their viewers.
They did not inform people that listened to them that the border was not secure.
And we had all the images you could ever want, need, or desire to prove that they were just flat out lying to us.
And they didn't care.
All they cared about was protecting Joe Biden.
They were nothing but an extension of the Biden press office, just like they knew he was in a steep cognitive decline.
We first reported on his cognitive decline in 2019, just like they knew inflation wasn't transitory.
And they wanted to do everything they could do to smear, slander, besmirch.
You know, just like the media, you know, think of all the lies that they told.
You know, they're just as guilty as the people involved in the Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax because they peddled the lies.
They peddled the conspiracy theories, you know, for pretty much three straight years, but they've peddled it ever since.
And some of them are still peddling that big lie.
You know, they never told the truth about Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
Why didn't they tell the truth?
Why didn't they look at the double standard when it came to, you know, Hillary Clinton's top secret classified information on her server or servers?
Or why didn't they talk about the four locations where Joe Biden had top secret classified information?
Remember, Donald Trump was a former president.
His Mar-a-Lago was raided.
Why weren't Joe Biden's four locations rated?
Why wasn't Hillary's office or Hillary's home raided?
You know, remember, the Presidential Records Act actually gave Donald Trump protections that neither one of them had.
You know, why didn't the media report that Mar-a-Lago is not worth $18 million?
Because they didn't care.
They just wanted to get Trump along with Letitia James and Alvin Bragg.
Why didn't they report on the law in New York is very clear and how the statute of limitations had run out on what was a legal non-disclosure agreement that was labeled a legal expense, that hired a real lawyer to negotiate the deal, and then somehow they were able to manufacture 34 felony counts.
Nobody cared about Donald Trump's rights.
They didn't care that attorneys generals and DAs ran on a platform to get one man, one family, one organization.
They didn't care about any of it.
And they're just as complicit.
There's been a lot of lying and a lot of now the net result of it is rightly, nobody gives a damn what they say, and nobody trusts these people anymore.
How can you trust them?
They have a political agenda.
And, you know, just like in this case, here, the president, if you, why would they not report simple, basic, fundamental truths like we're going to tell you right now?
You know, why wouldn't they point out that the president has the right under section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which would place the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control?
Why wouldn't they point out the fact that of every country in the entire world, by far, by more than twice as much, that Washington, D.C., the capital of our country, has the highest homicide rate per 100,000 people than every other country?
Countries you'd never expect.
You wouldn't think that Uruguay would have a homicide rate per 100,000 of 16.1, and Washington, D.C. is their number one at 41 per 100,000.
Baghdad is, you know, who would think that Baghdad is safer than Washington, D.C. in terms of the homicide rate at only 15.2 per 100,000.
Or that Havana, Cuba, only 4 per 100,000 versus 41 in Washington, D.C. Or that Nigeria or Panama City, Panama or Brazil or Costa Rica or Bogota, Colombia, or Mexico City, Mexico, or Lima, Peru, or Ethiopia, Buenos Aires, and Argentina, Nairobi, Kenya, San Salvador, El Salvador, Istanbul, dramatically lower.
I mean, El Salvador, 1.9 per 100,000.
Washington, D.C., 41 per 100,000.
And here's where it gets even more sinister.
Because, you know, if you go back to when the president gave his speech before a joint session, and all those illegal immigrants I was just talking about, unvetted, allowed in the country, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers, all that into the country.
And at the joint session speech, Democrats so hate Donald Trump when the president recognized the family of Lake and Riley, who was out jogging and brutally murdered on a jogging trail.
You would think Democrats would have a little bit of heart and soul and compassion and a conscience and stand up and give some type of support for the family of Lake and Riley.
No, they didn't stand.
They sat.
Or the family of little Jocelyn Nungari, 12 years old, and she was brutally murdered after she was raped violently in Houston, Texas.
They didn't stand for her mother, Alexis, either.
You know, we just had the guy that was responsible for the killing of Rachel Morin, you know, getting life in prison, but she was a mother of five.
And not one time, not once, did any Democrat that I know of ever reach out to any of these families that had loved ones either murdered or raped or victims of these heinous violent crimes.
And whatever Democrat runs for office, Gavin Newsom clearly has his eyes on the White House.
And there will be a list of every California in that sanctuary state paradise, that socialist utopia that he runs and that he's been a leader in for all these decades.
You don't think the names of every person murdered in his state by an unvetted illegal immigrant that had sanctuary state protection and sanctuary city protection is not going to become a campaign issue.
It will be, and it should be.
Now we're learning President Trump cracking down on all of this.
Democratic leaders all over the country denouncing the president for trying to save crime-ridden cities that they themselves are running.
Muriel Bowser calling Trump's, it's unsettling.
It's unprecedented.
We have the number one homicide rate of any capital of any country on the face of the earth, and you would think that they would welcome the support to keep their citizens safe and secure.
That's not the case.
Our nation's capital.
You know, we have long been the greatest country on earth, but violent crime is out of control.
And in large part, Democrats, I put a lot of the responsibility on their insane policies of defund, dismantle, no bail laws and everything else in between.
You know, and all these Democratic mayors, and we'll play some of it coming up this hour, but now we're finding out that this big talking point that they put out yesterday, we're at a 30-year low.
What are you talking about?
Let me quote the D.C. police union chief.
To evade public scrutiny, the Metropolitan Police Department leadership is deliberately falsifying crime data, creating a false narrative of reduced crime while communities continue to suffer.
Claims by Democrats that they're the state-run legacy media mob, that was everybody's talking point yesterday.
I'm not sure if they're just going to stick with it today and ignore the truth.
But if you look at the headline on the D.C. Police Union website, July 18th, less than a month ago, officers in the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department were instructed to downgrade violent crime reports to lesser offenses.
The fraternal order of police, which represents D.C. officers, has raised concerns about what they say is a broad practice of manipulating crime classifications to show declines in violent crime that don't exist.
Now, the fraternal order of police chairman said officers are frequently instructed by supervisors to downgrade serious felony reports to lesser offenses.
The union claims the practice is being directed by the Metropolitan Police Department command staff in an effort to keep reported crime figures low.
In a press release that he put out, he said the Metropolitan Police leadership deliberately is falsifying crime data, creating a false narrative of reduced crime while communities are suffering.
Wow.
And by the way, Washington, D.C. is not the only large Democratic-run city where major crimes are being underreported.
You know, we went back, we did a little research.
We found in Chicago magazine back in April of 2014, this troubling practice goes far beyond murders and documents and interviews reveals.
Chicago magazine found dozens of crimes, including serious felonies like robberies, burglaries, assaults that were misclassified, downgraded to wrist-slap offenses, or made to vanish altogether.
Many officers of different ranks from different parts of the city recounting instances in which they were asked or pressured by their superiors to reclassify their incident reports or in which their reports were changed by some invisible hand.
One detective refers to the quote magic ink, the power to make a case disappear, said another, rank and file don't agree with what's going on.
The powers that be are making the changes.
So it looks like their cities are safer than they really are.
In New York City, they had an NYPD transit commander accused of, quote, faking New York City subway crime stats.
New York Post, March of this year, the head of the NYPD Transit District in Queens was stripped of his command amid allegations that he had police reports falsified to downplay subway crimes on his watch.
Sources telling the New York Post, he said that some citizens have begun hesitating to call the police because they haven't felt that anything meaningful would be done.
He placed the blame on prosecutors for not pressing charges.
Again, they all have one thing in common: defund, dismantle, no bail laws, and frankly, built-in corruption.
I mean, one D.C. councilman has been charged with taking bribes, doesn't like Trump's anti-crime crackdown.
So everything that you've heard in the last 24 hours about D.C. based on rank and file and the police union and the Metropolitan Police Department is fake.
It's phony.
It's fraudulent.
It's a lie.
And it's been a systemic failure that they've tried to hide and cover up.
And this is happening all around the country.
Oh, what a shock.
Democrats, and of course, they're by extension, the state-run legacy media mob.
They want to cover all this up.
And as Janine Piro pointed out, D.C. laws are letting these young punks off the hook for violent crimes.
He even said to me last night, I can't even, you know, I can't take, I can't touch a 14 to 17-year-old that has a gun for crying out loud.
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To tell you about all of this insanity of the left and what why don't they want people to be safe and secure?
You know, if you really break down all of the Trump derangement syndrome, hatred, rage, predictions of doom and gloom on trade and doom and gloom, and this is terrible.
He's deporting criminal illegals in the country and they won't stand for mothers that lost their children.
And we have the worst, the highest homicide rate of any capital of any country in the world.
And what, you don't want to fix that?
And you're still clinging to defund, dismantle, no-bail law, madness, and insanity.
What does that tell you about where Democrats and the state-run legacy media mom is coming from?
And what are they going to do tonight after everything they said about how terrible Donald Trump is?
And it's at a 30-year low in terms of the murder rate.
But now we find out the numbers have been, the fix is in.
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Foxnews.com reporting a company that rents out paid protesters has seen a massive uptick in inquiries regarding its services in our nation's capital amid President Trump's move to federalize the police force in the nation's capital.
Right now, D.C. inquiries are up roughly 400% compared to the same period in 2024.
It's a group.
It's called Crowds on Demand.
Their CEO, Adam Swart, telling Fox News Digital, adding that the time period he is referencing is May to July 2024.
The company always sees a spike in requests during what he calls high-stakes political moments.
A large share are focused on opposing Trump's policies in Washington, raising alarms about government overreach.
You know, we're weighing these offers carefully because while there's truth in saying D.C.'s local government, he goes on, has been an abject failure in keeping its citizens safe.
There's also real danger of putting too much power in federal hands.
That balance of power matters.
And he said the vast majority of people at political or advocacy events in D.C. are in some way paid.
Most people don't know this.
Many protesters, this is a quote, are literally on the payroll.
Capitol Hill staffers from both parties often expected to show up at rallies and protest on their own time.
Yes, most attendees are being paid, or they're there because it's part of their job.
That doesn't mean they don't support the cause, but it does mean these crowds are not as organic as they appear on TV.
You know, last week we had, I think, a seminar call.
A guy was reading on the program.
I mean, that's always a red flag to me.
A D.C. judge, interestingly, probably good timing, has ordered the two teens charged in the attack on the former Doge staffer, Big Balls, to remain in the city's juvenile detention center, rejecting requests for less restrictive detention.
Did you see this guy was beaten to a pulp?
And all he did, according to reports, was come to the aid of a woman that was being attacked.
How many people, I mean, have you ever thought of what you would do in a situation if you see somebody being attacked?
What are you going to do?
Because most people are going to turn and look the other way, or it seems more common these days that people are going to pull out their cell phones and take videos while people are getting the crap eat out of them.
That part I don't understand.
If you're an older person, you don't have an ability to protect yourself, it's probably not a good idea to engage.
The best thing you can do is call police.
In the case of that woman, Holly, that was beaten, and that other guy that was being beaten had all these people with their cell phones out.
Only one person called the police, only one.
Pretty crazy.
Now, instead of talking about or being outraged over the fact that we're now learning that the Metropolitan Police Department is cooking the books to make DC seem safer than it even is, Muriel Bowser used the opportunity yesterday to call for DC statehood.
Here's what she said: My message to residents is this: We know that access to our democracy is tenuous.
That is why you have heard me and many, many Washingtonians before me advocate for full statehood for the District of Columbia.
And while this action today is unsettling and unprecedented, I can't say that given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we're totally surprised.
I don't even know what she's talking about.
Now, remember when Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffries were on the steps of the Capitol and the weird singing broke out?
It was a very small crowd.
I don't know, I counted maybe 20 people, maybe 20 people, maybe more.
I don't know if there were people behind the cameras, but remember this guy breaks out and starts singing.
I'll remind you: I will build this world from love, I will build this world from love.
Watch your bed, oh my gosh, it's painful.
I'm not sure why liberal protesters always want to sing because you had DC protesters singing yesterday at a free DC rally.
Now, knowing that astroturfing is really a big deal, which is what Fox News Digital was reporting, one has to wonder if these protesters now are being paid when we see them on TV.
But yesterday they started singing again.
Listen, DC is our role.
You can have it drunk.
DC is our role.
You can have it drunk.
It's our own.
It is so bad.
These people are lunatics.
You know, Stephen A. Smith writes me a lot, and he watches the show regularly, and he's a friend of mine.
And when he watches the show, he will write me things like in the middle of the show, I knew it.
I knew I saw that clip.
I knew you'd play it.
And if it's somebody like Pocahontas, Grandpa Bernie, Jasmine Crockett, I'm very, I've become a big fan of Jasmine Crockett or Mamdani or I think I mentioned Grandpa Bernie, the squad.
I played them because they are the real leadership of this radicalized Democratic Party.
And what's fascinating is You see that they are in complete alignment, a state-run legacy media mob and the Democratic Party.
And you can see this, whatever the talking point is, they all regurgitate the same thing.
For example, the closing arguments of the 24 campaign where Trump is racist and Trump is a, you know, Trump is a Nazi and a fascist, and he's Hitler, and he's Stalin, and he's Mussolini.
And they repeated it, repeated it, repeated it, repeated it, repeated it.
You know, now you've got Democrats all over the place saying Trump's a dictator.
Trump's a dictator.
The interview where Trump said that he would be a dictator was an interview with me.
So I remember it well.
And what he said was, if you care about the truth, he actually said, I said, what do you say to all these people that claim that you want to be a dictator?
He goes, well, I will be a dictator on day one.
I'll secure the border and I'll move to make us energy dominant.
Okay.
That's not being a dictator.
He was being Trump, you know, tongue in cheek.
He never said he was going to be a dictator, but it got taken out to mean that.
Now, if you listen to Democrats and their accomplices, their mouthpieces in the now dead, officially state-run legacy media mob, you know, now the Democrats are saying Trump's a dictator, dictator, dictator.
They always say the same thing.
Nazi, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.
Okay, racist.
Okay.
Now it's dictator.
Here's the media taking again an extension of the press offices of all things Democratic Party.
And now that the Democrats are taken to their new word, which is dictator, they're just regurgitating it.
Listen.
The thing we were all warning about for the last few years is not coming.
It is here.
We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge.
We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.
And what we're seeing play out here is Donald Trump's promise to be a dictator on day one.
Trump has seemingly never met a dictator he doesn't like.
It's some real dictator type stuff.
The American people will have to decide that they are the last in the line of defense against Donald Trump and American fascism.
It matters to the public.
It matters about what type of leader and the character of a leader.
Like, take Donald Trump at his board when he says he wants to be dictator on day one.
He looks up and idolizes dictators like Putin.
They say, you know, you judge a man by the company he keeps and in the ways that he's coosied up to dictators around the world really tells us a lot about the kind of corrupt dictator in the making Trump is.
Because the question I have for Trump is, do you know what the word dictator means?
I think he's clear.
And if you do, why are you using it unless that's what you want to be?
Among the many other vile things that Donald Trump has been called, including tyrant, liar, scam artist, he is also an aspiring dictator.
He says, because you're the governor and you won election, that's one of the reasons he wants you arrested.
So what's your response to that, Governor?
Was that said by Erdogan?
Who was that said by?
Was that some dictator, some authoritarian?
I mean, do you see it's all groupthink?
Do you see how manufactured it is?
And this is the real amazing part of all of this.
Everything from 20 to 24 that they did to Donald Trump and all the lawfare, all the weaponization, all of the phony charges that the media allowed so many lies and ridiculous things to be said about Trump.
They didn't care that weaponization was happening, and now they're all going to be held accountable.
And they were held accountable in many ways by all of you because in spite of them peddling lies about Donald Trump for all of these years, starting with the Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, now that we know a lot more about it, all the way through the weaponization and 34 charges and fingerprinted and mugshots and conviction.
And nobody cared what either Democrats or the state-run legacy media said.
They didn't care that their closing argument was racist, Nazi, fascist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.
They didn't care because they don't trust these people anymore.
They know that they've been lied to.
And that's why I declared the legacy media is dead.
You know, why wouldn't any, why wouldn't these state-run legacy media mom people, why would they not be outraged that mayoral candidate Kami Mamdani or Marxist Mamdani is only paying $2,300
a month for his stabilized apartment in New York despite making $142,000 a year as an assemblyman plus stipends in addition to however much apparently his artist wife is raking in because rent stabilized rent controlled apartments are meant for struggling working families or for poor people.
You know, it's part of a long-term pattern of liberals.
How many times have I said that liberals are only generous with other people's money?
And the guy just had multiple weddings that were extravagant.
His family comes from great wealth.
Why doesn't he give the apartment back?
I mean, even Andrew Cuomo kind of got it right here.
He said, you grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman.
You had weddings on three continents.
You know, you own property in LGBTQIA plus murderous Uganda.
You make $142,000 a year plus stipends and all this stuff and likely make well over $200,000 a year, no matter which way you cut it.
Zoron Mamdami is a rich person.
You're actually very rich.
You and your wife pay $2,300 a month as you have bragged for a nice apartment.
That should be housing for someone who needs it.
We're in the middle of a historic affordability crisis.
Millions of low-income New Yorkers need this apartment or an apartment like it, yet your apartment remains rented to rich people that don't need it.
I'm calling for you to move out immediately, give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family that needs it.
Leaders must show moral clarity.
It's time for him to move out.
He's not wrong.
And Gerald Nadler is lauding Mamdanmi.
He's a guy that won't give Trump an inch.
He's not running against Donald Trump.
Now, what have I been telling you about New York?
I've been warning you about this.
New York State's cumulative three-year budget gap now is a whopping $34 billion.
The shortfall driven by spending growth in Medicaid, education.
By the way, 45% of kids can't read in New York City.
Recent numbers, and that's an improvement.
That's shocking.
At three-year budget gap, $34 billion of 25%.
How much of this do you think might be attributed or attributable to the fact that people have left New York because of high taxes and burdensome regulation?
I'd say probably all of it.
It's insane.
But right now, I saw this morning, I was watching Fox and Prince.
What?
They have Vamdani is a 19-point lead.
By the way, over 100,000 Americans applied to join ICE after Trump's DHS announced plans to hire 10,000 new agents.
America's illegal alien population has dropped by 1.6 million, according to the Washington Times, since Trump took office.
That is huge.
We just begin.
That's just the beginning.
How do you possibly get all of the people that entered this country illegally out of the country?
I don't know how you do it.
And meanwhile, you know, Beto Bozo, everyone, the left's still going off the rails.
We'll do whatever an effing takes.
F the rules.
I guess that means F the law.
That's a call for anarchy.
I don't know.
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