Linda McLaughlin details the murder of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student killed by Jose Medina, whom she alleges entered the U.S. illegally in May 2023. She condemns cashless bail policies under Biden and Obama, citing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's "Abolish Ice" truck unveiling as insensitive to the tragedy. McLaughlin also highlights Joe Abram's daughter Katie, killed by an undocumented immigrant in January 2025, and Stephanie Minter, stabbed by Abdul Jola despite prior arrests. Accusing Democrats like Durbin and Murphy of prioritizing immigrants over citizens, she argues sanctuary city policies and welfare fraud directly enable these violent crimes against Americans. [Automatically generated summary]
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So today I'm actually going to be uploading two shows because last night it wouldn't upload.
I don't know why.
But I did a show that you're going to hear or you should have heard before this one.
And it was all about the murder of Sheridan Gorman, who died last Thursday, freshman at Loyola University in Chicago and shot by this illegal alien, a Venezuelan national who came in in May of 23 after only being here for a month, ended up shoplifting, was not removed from the country because it's not a big enough crime, right?
Entering the country illegally and then stealing is not a big enough crime, neither of these.
So this is the ongoing conversation that we keep having, which is it started under Biden and Kamala and Obama and all these other liberal assholes who started cashless bail and we need to be more tolerant and we can't have people just in jail because, you know, as Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago says, jailing people, apprehending people, arresting people, it's all racist.
Okay.
It's not because you committed a crime, whether it be, gosh, you know, jaywalking to murder in his eyes.
It's because you're racist.
So I don't really know how that works.
But that I think is probably the larger part of an enormous issue with identity politics and the constant reversion to it by the left.
It is nauseating.
So I did this show.
We really focused on Pritzker because Pritzker is such a horrible person.
And what's interesting is he's one of these, you know, good for thee, not me guys, because he is a billionaire, guys, a billionaire with a B.
And as I went over last night, you know, when you're the heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and all of the subsidiaries that go with that brand, like you're not living in everyday America.
You're not worried about mortgage payments.
You're not worried about having to, you know, lease a car or how costly gas is.
It's not a thing.
When you're a billionaire, you're in another echelon of wealth.
It's not even like people that are millionaires, but they have a lot of kids or they have, you know, a couple houses or whatever, right?
It's always the same thing.
Like you make more money and you have more expenses and you have more problems because as you make more, you spend more.
And that's the reality of life.
But in Pritzker's case, that's not really a thing Because him and his brother and his sister as heirs to this wealth, they have this constant cycle of money because this is a business that continues to grow.
This is a business that has been growing and there's no end in sight.
It's the Hyatt hotels, you know?
I mean, it's just insane.
And properties, I should say, because they have so many other things.
But that was Pritzker.
We talked about that last night and just the sadness of, you know, Sheridan Gorman and the loss of yet another innocent young person.
I mean, 18 years old.
It's almost for me like silly to call her a woman because I feel like, you know, a minute ago, you were in high school and it's your freshman year of college and you're starting out and you decide to go out and go see the northern lights and somebody else is like, nope, not tonight.
Tonight, I'm going to take your life and you're going to die on the street.
And yeah.
So here's what's interesting about this.
So Blogojevich, Rob Bloglojevich, you might remember him.
He was involved in politics in Chicago, went to jail under Obama for all sorts of, you know, scams.
And he's, you know, he's an interesting person.
I don't really have an opinion on him one way or the other.
But what I do think is interesting is he came out today and he was talking about the murder of this young girl.
And he said, and I'm quoting this from his ex-account, he said, Sheridan Gorman's killer is being held in isolation.
I suspect Pritzker and the Democrats are hiding him to cover up the fact that this illegal immigrant killed an innocent young girl as a part of a gang initiation.
I know gang bangers and I know how they operate.
I lived with them for eight years and I know Pritzker and the Dems and you better believe I'm right.
So what's interesting is he posts this with a picture that came out online today.
It's from June of 2023 and it's of Jose Medina Medina and he's thrown up a gang sign.
So Bogojevich, having been in prison for eight years, I kind of believe him because he probably does know not only from his time in working in Chicago and being in office in Chicago, but now obviously having been in prison with these people, I'm sure he knows a lot more than the average bear.
And so all over today, everybody's been, you know, circulating this image of Medina, who technically was only here for a month, I guess, when this happened.
And he's thrown up these gang signs.
You have to start to wonder now, they did say he had tuberculosis.
So I don't know if that's true or not.
For all we know, they isolated him because they're trying to figure out how to keep him quiet and make this go away because it's a very inconvenient story.
But the larger issue that we have here is if we have illegal immigrants coming in and they're being released into society and we're trying to figure out how to make all this stop, then, you know, we can't have people that are released by our own government where they say, oh yeah, it doesn't matter because they didn't have any, the crime wasn't big enough, right?
So when we're talking about people like Jose Medina and Sheridan Gorman, the details do matter.
They really do.
And here's what matters even more.
Just a little bit of EQ, a little bit of sensitivity to what is happening around you.
Mayor's Shocking Insensitivity00:13:01
But Brandon Johnson, who is the mayor in Chicago, has zero sensitivity at all.
Today, he had a press conference.
And mind you, this girl was killed a week ago tomorrow.
So think about her family.
Think about what they're going through.
Think about all the pain that they are under right now, having just lost their child, murdered at the hands of an illegal immigrant who never should have been here and putting her in the ground.
And then you have no media coverage.
None of the mainstreams are talking about it.
And then all of a sudden, people start to have to talk about it because folks like us that are out on X are making note of yet another young woman murdered at the hands of a Democrat illegal alien protected by Democrat sanctuary policies.
Brandon Johnson is like the Sanctuary City king, right?
I mean, he's right up there with Mamdani and Hochul and all these assholes.
And so he has this event today where he's got this snow removal truck that he's displaying at this community press conference.
And he had the community name in it.
It's called Abolish Ice.
And he's given, he's giving this press conference speech.
And it is, honestly, it is shocking.
I'm just going to play it because I can't even quote it to do it justice.
You just have to hear and excuse the wind because it's obviously very windy in Chicago.
You just have to hear what this asshole is saying.
It is incredibly out of touch.
And it is so disgusting and disrespectful to the Gorman family.
And to all of the residents who participated in our snowplow naming contest, keep speaking up in every way and any way that you can.
I look forward to meeting with the Chicago ones who submitted the winning names.
And I look forward to seeing our city's pride, our spirit, and even yes, our humor represent us again next year.
And so with that, take a moment to, I guess, take in all that you all have been waiting for.
This moment is finally here.
The snowplow with the most votes, most entries, abolish ice.
Thank you very much, but I want to get a chance to marvel myself.
So I don't know if you heard that resounding applause.
This guy, it is astonishing to me, is standing there in front of a group of press talking about his snowplow that he had a contest for, where they get to bash immigration agents that remove criminal illegal aliens that do things like murder college students, rape small children, kidnap people,
people that get stabbed, people that get abused, people that get carjacked, homes that are burglarized because they're in initiations, any number of things that we talk about all the time.
And instead of saying, you know, I was going to do this abolish ice thing, but since that would be super insensitive to the Gorman family, given the fact that their daughter was murdered in my city less than a week ago, I'm not going to do that.
Instead, what I am going to do is not have this press conference about a stupid truck with a stupid name and a stupid contest.
Nobody is waiting for Brandon Johnson's truck.
Nobody is waiting for the unveiling.
How clever is abolish ice?
Bro, are you kidding me?
Like, this is not creative.
This is dumb.
And it shows how much you want to disenfranchise your city from the federal government and the aid they can provide your citizens.
People feel unsafe in your city.
People are murdered.
People are shot.
People are hurt in your city every single day.
Every single day.
And on the weekends times 10.
And instead of working on that, you have decided to focus on DEI, identity politics, and fighting the federal government.
You hate Donald Trump and conservatives so much more than you love the city of Chicago.
It's the same argument that I make for the Palestinians when they use their children and their families as human shields.
And I say, when is it enough?
When do you get to the spot where you love your family more than you hate your enemy?
It's the same thing for Brandon Johnson.
Brandon Johnson hates Donald Trump, hates conservatives, hates people who love America so much more than he cares about anybody that he represents.
And let's be honest, Brandon Johnson doesn't work for the people.
Brandon Johnson works for Brandon Johnson.
You've seen the way he speaks to reporters.
You've seen the way that he talks about people of color versus white people.
You see how everything becomes an issue about race.
This is not somebody looking to unify, bridge a divide, figure out how to solve problems.
He's the problem causer.
He's the initiator of divisiveness.
So one of the reporters there had the gumption, God bless her, to actually ask the question, you know, did you think this was the right tone and proper taste?
Maybe you should have postponed.
Listen to his answer to this question.
It is, again, it's just mind-blowing.
Did you reconsider schedule rescheduling this event given the murder of Sheridan Gorman by an undocumented immigrant?
Look, as I've said before, my condolences to the family of Sheridan.
This is a terrible tragedy.
And what I've said from the very beginning, I'm going to continue to use every single tool that's available to me to protect the residents of the city of Chicago.
And this tragedy is not going to deter us from our work.
In fact, it's going to challenge us all to double down on our efforts to ensure that we are protecting every single individual across neighborhoods.
I'm going to use every tool in my toolbox to fight back.
What are you fighting?
People are getting killed on your watch.
Are you not responsible for any of that?
And let me just say also, realizing this is a podcast, but just picture Brandon Johnson standing in front of this stupid abolish ICE truck and he's grinning from ear to ear.
I mean, full smile, all the teeth.
The pearly whites are out.
He is excited to bash ICE.
He is excited to stand in front of a giant snow removal truck.
This is your aspirations in life.
This is what you're looking to do.
Stand in front of a snow removal truck and bash a federal agency when somebody's mourning the loss of their child.
I mean, put yourself in somebody else's shoes for five minutes, just for five minutes.
There's a lot of people who get hurt every single day.
There are people in the last year who are Democrats, who are liberals, who are raging lunatics, who have had great struggles, lost loved ones, been murdered.
And, you know, people on the right, for the most part, we're not out there, you know, excited about your loss, continuing on with our day.
I'm very sorry that that happened to you.
I don't think you're a good person.
I don't think you do good things.
But I don't wish the death of a loved one, the murder of someone, horrible things to happen to anybody.
Well, maybe a couple people, but for the most part, anybody, right?
I really struggle with how these people just, they relish in the moment.
It doesn't matter what's going on.
nothing is going to get in the way of their agenda and what they are looking to do.
So conversely to this, there was testimony today on the Hill and one of the people testifying about Department of Homeland Security and ICE and illegal immigrants and the tragedies that they bring to American citizens is Joe Abram.
And Joe Abram is also from Illinois and lost his daughter, Katie.
And it's very, very sad.
His testimony is heartbreaking.
And obviously, you know, his testimony from a dad, I have to say, I was completely blown away by his composure because I don't know how you can speak so eloquently and so directly, truly directly, the way that he did.
And he calls out Dick Durbin.
It's incredible.
But just by way of background, his daughter was Katie Abram.
She was killed in a hit and run car crash, drunk driving.
It was an illegal alien by the name of Julio Kukulbo, and it was in Illinois, as I mentioned.
And she was killed on January 19th, 2025.
And this is a little piece of the story.
This is actually from his op-ed.
And I'll quote it.
Katie was violently killed on January 19th, 2025, in a way no parent should ever have to imagine.
She was a passenger in a car, stopped at a red light when an illegal alien driving drunk at nearly 80 miles an hour slammed into the back of their vehicle.
The driver, a Guatemalan national in the county, illegally using a false Mexican identification, stole from us a bright, loving young woman with her whole life ahead of her.
Instead of acting with compassion or foresight, Illinois leaders encouraged and even incentivized illegal immigration, sending a dangerous message that anyone could come here without consequence.
That's not compassion.
That's cruelty.
It shows no regard for the safety of residents and no empathy for the struggles, abuse, and exploitation suffered by the very people making that perilous journey.
After Katie's death, I met with dozens of DHS and ICE agents and support staff in Chicago.
I sat down with acting ICE director Todd Lyons and we spoke at length about how open border policies are tearing apart our communities.
The contrast could not have been more stark.
I was struck by their professionalism, their compassion and dedication.
These men and women are not villains that some politicians and activists make them out to be.
They are Americans trying to do their jobs to restore order and balance after years of dangerous neglect.
Each of the dozens of men and women I met were competent, professional, and deeply committed to keeping our communities safer.
So here's a man writing this op-ed talking about the death of his daughter.
He is sadly now going into a whole year now without his beloved child.
And today he gave testimony.
And again, I am so incredibly amazed at this man's composure.
I'm going to play about a minute of what he said today on the Hill.
Katie's not a headline.
She was not a statistic.
She was someone worth more than being ignored and made invisible, especially in my state.
Just because her story was inconvenient, she was my daughter.
She should be finishing school right now.
She should be planning for her future.
She should still be laughing with her family and friends.
Instead, her urn sits in a room we constructed to remember her life.
I can't bring Katie back.
But this committee has a power to examine what failed, to demand transparency, and to ensure policies are judged not by their intentions, but by their outcomes.
I absolutely love what he just said, that policies are not judged by their intentions, but by their outcomes.
Chaos Behind the Policies00:12:09
You see, part of the problem of DHS and ICE and CBP going into these locations is that the Democrats and the Antifa and the Soros funding, they are already on the ground.
They're preparing to fight before anything happens.
So what happens is you end up fighting with all of these people that are there to protest something that actually hasn't happened.
You have people following agents that are in pursuit of rapists, pedophiles, murderers, because they think that you're going after a citizen or somebody that they feel isn't worthy of your attention.
These are regular citizens that are so defamatory to our agents, whether they're law enforcement agents, whether they are federal agents, whether they're members of the Department of Homeland Security or ICE or CBP.
It doesn't matter.
They have been told that there are people that will bail them out of jail, that will pay them a weekly salary, and all they have to do is show up and cause havoc so that these people cannot remove criminal illegal aliens.
We're not just talking about undocumented persons who came here and they've overstayed, but they're working, right?
They have a family.
They have no criminal background.
They're just working.
But that's not who these people are going after.
I'm not saying they don't go after those people too, because at the end of the day, if you came here illegally, the word illegal has meaning.
It means that you did something that is not legal, period, end of sentence.
But putting that to the side for one moment, this is not who they're going after.
They're going after people who are committing heinous crimes.
And for some reason, people like in this state of Illinois, their two senators are Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, both rabid lunatic liberals out of their minds.
They would rather every day stand by the side of these people who only care about the undocumented.
You know, there was a tape that came out yesterday and it was Chris Murphy.
And Chris Murphy was saying, it was an interview actually that he did with Chris Hayes and it was in 2024.
But he was asked the question, you know, what do you think about illegal aliens and how do you feel about what's happening and this and that?
And he proceeds to say, well, yeah, you know, the people we care about the most are the undocumented immigrants.
And everybody was like, whoa, so you actually said that out loud.
Interesting.
I mean, think about how insane that is.
This is a person who is an elected official in the United States of America.
And he proceeds to say, what I care about is actually the undocumented.
I care about the illegals.
I don't care about anything else.
And I was like, oh my God.
And here's the thing, right?
There's so much news all the time that we can't even keep up with it.
I don't, I'm sure that I heard this in 2024.
I don't remember.
But it's definitely one of those things where you get to a spot and you say, wow, that's really sick, man.
I can't believe you did that.
And then you have people like Dick Durbin who fight Donald Trump and they fight everybody every step of the way.
And it's even in the face of a situation like this where Joe Abram is talking about his daughter, Katie, or Brandon Johnson is ignoring the death of Sheridan Gorman.
So Joe Abram today, he gets, man, I don't have enough praise to lavish on this man because he really gave it to Dick Durbin.
This is really quick.
It's only 10 seconds, but take a listen.
What I don't understand is why my senator of Illinois, Mr. Durbin, haven't heard two words from him toward me.
But sorry, I want to take your time.
Kind of amazing.
I mean, think about that.
He looks right at Dick Durbin and he goes, I mean, doesn't even flinch.
And I have to imagine Durbin, who's been in office since 1997, was sitting there going, oh, shit.
Because what's interesting is as we watch our federal agents try to help Americans, as we watch ICE go into the airports and we have people like, you know, Krasner in Philadelphia, who's a totally Soros, bought and paid operative.
This guy is bad news, such a bad man.
But he's saying, oh, I'm going to arrest the ICE agents that are here because these people are trying their best to do the work of the president and help TSA.
They're not there to arrest anybody.
They're not there to look for anybody.
The president even said, I don't want you to wear masks, which I have mixed feelings on that.
I'm sure many of you do too.
But there's nobody there doing anything except trying to alleviate some of the problems caused by, you guessed it, the Democrats.
So I think when we talk about that and we really kind of get down to basics, it starts to make sense that we're dealing with people that they just say no to anything if it comes from Donald Trump.
But how sad is it that any of these people are in this position?
This again is Cheryl Minter.
This is Stephanie Minter's mom.
I played this in yesterday's podcast, but it bears repeating.
This is the woman that was stabbed to death in Spambergers, Virginia.
And the Fairfax County prosecutor, the federal judge who oversaw Abdul Jola's hearing six years ago said that he should be removed.
And Steve Descano, who is the prosecutor there, he's a Democrat and he said, absolutely not.
We're not going to remove him.
So the federal judge says, yes, he needs to be removed.
And this asshole comes in.
He's the Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney, former federal prosecutor.
And as he writes, I'm a proud Democrat.
And he says, no, we're not going to kick him out.
So because he doesn't kick him out, this guy goes, he's been arrested and released over 30 times.
And he kills Stephanie Minter, who's waiting for a bus, standing at a bus stop, not doing anything.
How is that okay?
And honestly, how do you fight back against something like that?
When the prosecutors, the governors, the senators, the congresspeople are all saying, we don't care.
We don't care.
And if you get stabbed, if you get shot, if you are murdered and your family comes to us, we're still not going to care.
And not only are we not going to care, we're going to turn around, we're going to flip it on you, and we're going to say that you're a racist and you're anti-immigrant and you don't believe in sharing our amazing country with all of the wonderful and colorful people that come here.
Yeah, we would love to actually, if they were actually bringing something to the country.
But for the most part, when people come here, they're on the welfare system.
And why is that?
Because our welfare system is broken.
We have so much fraud in our Medicaid and our Medicare.
We are paying for healthcare out the yin-yang for people that don't pay into the system.
We have fake businesses set up all over California and in Minnesota that we know of so far that surge into the billions of dollars in federal funding.
They don't even exist.
They don't even exist.
And then they'll tell you that we don't have enough money for our veterans.
We don't have enough money for homeless shelters.
We don't have enough money for more social workers.
We don't have enough money for foster care.
Well, now we know why, guys.
Because all of that money is being misappropriated deliberately.
And when you ask questions about it, they're mad at the person asking the questions.
I said this last night on X.
I said, you know, you look at Nick Shirley and he's got to get paid security, hired guns to walk around and protect him because people are out to get him because he's exposing the fraud in California.
So instead of Gavin Newsom lavishing with him, you know, him with support and praise, he's saying, no, you're a terrible person because you're exposing what's wrong with my state.
Probably because him and his wife, Jen, they're on the take.
He doesn't want anybody getting in his way.
It is shocking.
And then you look at Senator Lee, who is every night on the Senate floor, preaching, praising, lecturing, teaching us about the SAVE Act and the legislative process so that we can be better armed to fight back against our own representatives who refuse to represent us.
80% plus approval on a bill that never happens in America.
We can't agree on shit and we can't get our senators to go in and make this a policy that we can all live and abide by.
And we have to have Mike Lee in there and they're getting mad at him.
Why are you mad at him?
He didn't do anything wrong.
And so full circle, back to Stephanie Minter's mom.
She's standing outside, I guess, of a courthouse.
I'm not sure where she was when she gave this statement, but the press is there and they're asking her about the murder of her daughter.
And she's like, I don't know where to turn.
I don't know what to do.
And she's right.
Change has got to happen with this.
It's just got to.
I don't know where all these political people are.
I mean, they stopped serving citizens.
They just stopped.
And I'm not quite sure how they get voted in.
I mean, she is just a simple mom, right?
Just standing there as a mom, talking about her daughter that she brought into this world, who was brutally murdered by somebody who had been arrested over 30 times.
And Steve Descano, in my opinion, should be held responsible.
He's complicit in her murder.
A federal judge said he should be removed.
But Steve said, nah, let him stay.
Steve, how would you like that if that happened to your daughter?
Would you be happy that somebody let him stay?
That's what needs to be said to these people.
Just like Joe Abram said to the face of Dick Durbin, you're awfully quiet over there, Dickie.
Nothing to say?
Always so much to say when it's pompum circumstance, but here I am.
I am a product of your sanctuary policies.
I am a product.
I am what it looks like when this doesn't work.
So now that it hasn't worked and you allowed it to happen, who takes the hit?
Who takes the fall?
It shouldn't be Joe Abram.
He already lost his daughter.
Looks to me like maybe Dickie Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and Pritzker and Johnson should be in trouble.
They should be the people paying the price for the murders of so many on his watch, including Katie Abram and Sheridan Gorman.
It's disgusting.
I am praying for those families.
I really am.
I believe in the power of prayer, but I think at times like this, you really have to do this.
Guys, we are in a lot of trouble here.
We need the SAVE Act.
We need to support our troops.
We need to protect the people here at home.
I'm so desperately afraid that a decade from now, this country is going to look a lot different if we don't get a hold of these assholes in Congress.
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