August 22, 2025 • 30 mins
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Praise for Donald Trump:
- Trump is portrayed as a decisive, law-and-order leader.
- His actions in Washington, D.C., particularly involving crime reduction, are described as unprecedented and highly successful.
- Ben suggests Trump is playing "chess" while Democratic leaders are playing "checkers."
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Criticism of Democratic Leadership:
- Democratic mayors and city councils are accused of failing to address crime.
- Ben claims they prioritize politics over public safety and refuse help from Trump due to partisan bias.
- Cities like Memphis, Chicago, Baltimore, and others are cited as examples of Democratic mismanagement.
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Crime and Public Safety:
- Ben discusses high crime rates, especially in urban areas.
- Anecdotes about locked-up toiletries in CVS stores and personal experiences in Memphis are used to illustrate the severity of crime.
- Juvenile crime and lack of accountability are emphasized.
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Race and Black Lives Matter:
- Ben questions the sincerity of the Black Lives Matter movement and Democratic leaders' commitment to protecting Black lives.
- There's a repeated assertion that African Americans are disproportionately affected by violent crime in Democratic-run cities.
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Call to Action:
- Ben urges Trump to tour the most dangerous cities and speak directly to residents.
- Citizens are encouraged to pressure local leaders to accept federal help.
- There's a broader appeal to restore community, faith, and education through improved safety.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, Donald Trump, when he ran for president, what did
he say to America? He promised he was going to
be the law and order president, and he said he
was going to secure the southern border. He said he
was going to clean up the violent criminals that had
come into this country that were legal immigrants, the worst
among us. The rapists, the child molesters, the sex traffickers,
the human smugglers, the drug dealers, the murderers. The list
(00:25):
goes on and on. The President has been doing that
even while Democrats are putting criminals and illegal immigrants ahead
of American citizens. Now, I'm not even sure the president
thought he was going to be able to secure the
board the way that he has been able to do
it in such a record setting time. And one of
the big perks of being able to secure the border
(00:48):
so quickly, is it the President United States America said immediately, Okay,
what's next? Insert Washington, DC. Washington, DC crime is no
doubt out of control. I've talked about this before in DC.
I was there a couple weeks ago and the dorman,
the bellman, said to me, Hey, I got there and
(01:09):
they lost my bag, and I was like great, I
need like basic toilet trees and stuff. So I was like, hey,
is there like a Walgreen CBS. Now, I wonder what
you understand, saying I am one and a half blocks
from the White House, and he said, oh, up the
corner pass Old Ebbitt on the right, up there there's
a CBS.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Perfect go to the CVS.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I get to the CBS and everything, and I mean
everything is locked up. They had the deodorant locked up.
That costs I don't know, four eighty six for a
stick of deodorant. That is how bad crime is in Washington,
d C. That you have to lock up deodorant. I
then went over the toothpaste because I was gonna get
(01:52):
toothpaste that was locked up as well. The toothbrushes were
locked up. And then I needed a razor.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They were locked up.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You literally couldn't buy any toiletries that I needed without
hitting a button. And then an intercom system saying customer
needs help on Aisle four at razors or whatever it said,
or deodorant. That is how out of control crime was
in DC. Now who was committing the crimes? A lot
of the crime was actually coming by juveniles. Juveniles had
(02:23):
not been held accountable for their actions under Bowser. Now,
you would think that Mayor Bowser would be in favor
of having a safe city because she's the same woman
that's obsessed with Black lives matter. Right, it's the same
city that painted a street black Lives Matter going to
the White House. This is a city right where Black
Lives Matter was everything. Well, if black lives actually mattered,
(02:47):
then you would probably try to, like, I don't know,
stop the murders and the killing and the beating and
the attacks and the stealing from African Americans. If African
Americans matter, you would think this would be, like, I
don't know, a top priority, which is where we lead
to Donald Trump's brilliance. Donald Trump understands that it's actually
(03:09):
not that hard to fight crime. You catch criminals, you
arrest them, you prosecute them, and you don't let them
out of jail. Now we know that George Brows and
his money gave us a ton of what we would
describe as activist das. I describe them as anarchists in
law enforcement. Their job is simple, let the criminals out,
(03:31):
don't hold them accountable, don't even keep them in jail,
even when they're committing hainous crimes and empty out the prisons,
because what Soros and the Left want is prison reform
and bail reform. They want to make sure that if
you commit a crime and you have a certain skin color, especially,
you're not held accountable. They want to make sure that
if you commit a Hanus crime and you're African American,
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you don't have a lot of money, that you can
just disappear and walk straight out of that courtroom and
give cash us bail, because they believe it's racist for
you to have to put up money when you commit
heinous crimes. This is the Democratic Party. And so what
Donald Trump saw in Washington, d C. Was an opportunity.
(04:13):
It wasn't just an opportunity to clean up DC. That
you have to understand. Donald Trump was playing chess while
these other idiot mayors were playing checkers. What Donald Trump
understood is number one, the city where our nation's capital
is should be safe. We have millions and millions of
tourists to go there. We have people that have to
(04:33):
go to Washingt d C.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
To do their job. If you were in Congress, for example.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And so the President clearly understood that his goal was
to clean up a city, and he knew he could
do it with the help of law enforcement in allowing
them to actually do their job. There was also a
second part of the equation, and this goes back to
playing chess while others are playing checkers.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This is the art of the deal, is another way
of putting it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The President of the United States of America also knew
that if you wanted to prove a point that you
can clean up cities like Memphis, my hometown where I
was born and raised, Chicago, Saint Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore,
New York City, New Jersey, San Francisco, La, Denver, the Detroit.
(05:21):
The list goes on and on of high crime major cities. Now,
if there's one thing that's in common with all these
high crime cities, they're all run by Democrats. They have
the majority of the city council or the border aldermen
in the mayor's offices.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Go look at the top.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Twenty most dangerous cities in America, and they are all
run by the Democratic Party. In fact, if you put
into Google right now, top twenty most dangerous cities, go
look at them from US News. Look at the numbers,
look at what they tell you. The most dangerous cities.
(05:57):
Memphis number one, Democratic run, Saint Louis number two, run
by Democrats, Little Rock number three run by democrats, Minneapolis
number four run by democrats, Detroit number five run by
Democrat majority. There, Kansas City Democratic majority there, New Orleans
Democratic majority there at seven, Cleveland Democratic majority there number eight,
(06:21):
Birmingham Democratic majority. City number nine that is in Houston
comes at number ten, Democratic run city, Milwaukee at eleven,
Democratic run city, Orlando Democratic run city at twelve. Like
you noticed, there's a trend here, right, There's a pattern here.
Baltimore thirteen, most sederors city in America?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What are they? Run by democrats?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Atlanta run by democrats fourteen, Stockton Democrats run the place fifteen,
New York sixteen run by democrats, Phoenix run by Democrats
at seventeen, Los Angeles at eighteen, Las Vegas at nineteen,
all run by Democrats, and finally Miami run by Democrats.
So if you will at the numbers, and that's not
the murder rate, that was just dangerous cities, you go
(07:03):
to the murder rate, same thing's gonna happen, going to
be very close to the same order that I just
mentioned there and so the president I tips in America said, Okay,
if I can federalize and take over law enforcement and
restore law and order very quickly in washing DC, this
is going to put Democrats on the defensive in all
these other cities because I'm going to make it clear
in those other cities that I am willing to come
(07:23):
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go back to my hometown where I was born and
raised in Memphis, Sennessee. You have a mayor there that
will never allow for the National Guard to come in
and help. He could have the city on fire, and
I don't think he would do it. You gotta have
riot and looting. I'm not sure he we do it
because in his minds, he hates Donald Trump more than
he likes sitting the lie of the citizens of his city.
(10:04):
All of these other cities that I mentioned, you're dealing
with the same exact thing. So then the question becomes
in these hardcore liberal cities, if you know that the
presidente It's America has come to town, and you know
that when he has come to town or talking about
your town, that he is offering you genuine help and
that your city actually could be incredibly safe, could be
(10:26):
unbelievably safe. If your mayor would say, please help, mister President,
how mad are you going to be? You witness what's
happening in Washington, d C. They haven't had a murder
I think it's in six or seven days now. I
want you to think about that. They haven't had a
(10:47):
murder in six or seven days.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That is an unbelievable number.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That is a number that even I think the President
couldn't have imagined. I want you to listen to President
as he was doing this walk right after DC. He says,
we're going to make other places safer. Why did he
say it that way? He is telling the rest of
the world, if you live in a city that is dangerous,
I am here to help you. You're gonna have to
talk to your mayor and get him to do what's
(11:16):
right for you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Listen to President in his own words.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So many phone calls thanking me for what we've done
in Washington, d C. From people that haven't gone to
a restaurant literally in four years, and they said, you
know what you've done is it's unprecedented because what they
they they said it was just unsafe. We couldn't do
it would go out and you'd see the stories. You'd
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read the stories, you see all of the things that
are happening, and they said, we just we couldn't we
couldn't stand it, Sarah. Now I take my wife and
my kids to dinner. They one of them said, he's
gone out four nights in a row and he hadn't
gone out for four years. So it's it's a great
tribute to you. And when I look at you people,
(12:01):
I understand why because there's no.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Games, right, we're not playing games.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're gonna make it safe and we're going to then
go on to other places, but we're going to stay
here for a while. We want to make this absolutely perfect.
Just our capital, and I guess it used to be
many years ago, say, but it certainly not had a
very good run. And you've got to be strong, you've
got to be tough, you've got to do your job.
Whatever it takes to do your job. You got to
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do your job. But the crime numbers are way down.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm looking at you.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Saw some of the stats that just read them out
to me inside the numbers that we haven't seen here ever,
actually ever, And I think it's probably right now it's
to me. I feel very safe now and I'm hearing
people are very safe. But I know within two weeks
it's going to be pam, It's going to be at
a level that's even far superior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The President of the United States of America is telling
every liberal danger city in America, I am here to
help you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Why will Democrats not take him up on making their
cities safer?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Why would any mayor that has a dangerous city one
of those deadly cities in America. I go back to
my hometown of Memphis, because I love my hometown, but
people are fleeing left and right. Why would you not say, yes,
mister President, let's be biparison this.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Please come in and help me save black lives.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Because I promise you that all the people on the
city council in Memphis, I know most of them, and
the mayor have all been up there yelling black lives matter.
That the same people that walked out to the bridge
and shut down the famous Memphis Bridge and a name
of black Lives Matter with a guy by the way
that was had an unrest worn out for him while
the police were walking arm in arm with him as
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he was shutting down traffic illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why would you not in that moment, why would you
not say yes, Yes, mister President, I can put politics
aside because I.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Want to save black lives.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The majority of the cities I mentioned earlier are majority
African American cities. The majority of people that are killed
in these cities are African Americans. That are being killed
in these cities, The majority of the victims the most
violent crimes are African American. The majority of the people
that are being raped are African American. The majority of
children that are being sexually abused are African American in
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these most dangerous cities.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
If black lives.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Matter, then why would these mayors or these cities not say,
mister President, we need your help. We're one of the
most dangerous cities in America and we want you to
come in and do.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Exactly what you just did.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That is working overwhelmingly in a city that is very
much like ours, Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's why the presidents said, we're not done here yet.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We're going to make it safe, and we're going to
go other places, but we're going.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
To stay here for a while.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's also sending the message when it comes to law enforcement,
you can't just come in and clean up and disappear.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You have to have a presence.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now, let me also just say publicly what my piece
of advice is for this White House right now. And
I will say this to people I know there, but
I want to say publicly with you guys right now.
I think this is a major opportunity for President Trump
to go into some of these liberal cities in the
very near future with the data of how massive of
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a success Washington, DC's cleanup has been and go directly
the people in that city and tell the people in
that city. You have to reach out to your city councilman,
you have to reach out to your governor. You have
to reach out to your mayor's office. You're going to
have to demand that they ask for the help that
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you guys need to make your city safer. I think
the president should go two of the top twenty most
dangerous cities. I think you should sit there on stage
with elected officials and call them out to their face
in a very diplomatic way. Because this doesn't need to
come across as like I'm right and you're wrong. It
needs to come across with I'm here to help. I
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am here to give you whatever you need to protect
the black lives of your city that are getting destroyed
by the violent criminals in your city. I go back
to this, This is an African American issue in the
majority of these cities.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And so if you want.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To if you want me to believe Democrats that you
truly care about black lives, that you honestly.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Care about saving Black lives.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
By the way, especially young black lives. Let's also remember
how many young people are dying, how many young people
are sending themselves up to just go to jail. Look
at the number of violent criminals and the number of
anarchists that we witness in Washington, d C. The majority
of the people that are doing a lot of these
crimes and the shoplifting are actually under the age eighteen.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I can tell you why, one reason and one reason only.
They know they're not going to go to jail. They
know that they get caught, nothing was going to happen
to them. Why else do you think this happened. Why
else do you think that they did this? Well, let
me also just explain to you how the gangs work,
so you understand the gangs are really smart. They use
young people under the age of eighteen on purpose, and
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they use them because they know they won't be held accountable.
I want you to just think about that. They know
that they will not be held accountable for their actions.
That's why they do it. You step back and you
look at this country right now, and it is very
clear that every major city in America is run by Democrats.
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Is a city that is filled with violent criminals. Many
of them are filled with violent criminal, illegal aliens. Many
of them are filled with child rapists, sex offenders, and
a network of drug cartel members. And by the way,
I'm going to talk about the drug cartels and going
after them because they've been designated terrorist organizations in a moment,
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something I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of going
after them, and there's a very good chance that may
be what the President's going to do in Mexico very
very soon.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But they're filled with the lawlessness.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
This is the time where we as Republicans and conservatives,
I think, have an opportunity to make real inroads in
inner city America, where overwhelming they've been voting for Democrats
for decades. At seventy eighty percent. This is that moment
where you can look at Washington, d C. And show
them that there is an actual chance of safe and
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secure neighborhoods regardless of where you live.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If you restore the law and order, and then once you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Get that safety and you get that security, you're then
in a much better place because at that point you
have citizens that start to be inspired to go out
in their communities, to be involved in their communities. By
the way, you know what, there's two things that are
very interesting about.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Crime.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
If you're in a high crime area, did you know
that it's almost guaranteed that your kids are in a
failing school.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
If black lives really matter to the Democratic Party like
they claim, then they would want young black lives to
not be set up for failure, but set up for
success in a public school that is not a failure.
By the way, it's also the reason why I'm in
favor of school choice. You may not know this, but
did you know if you're in a high crime city,
not only are you more likely to be in a
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failing school than a successful school, but you're you're also
more likely to let me rephrase that, you're less likely
to go to church you look at the most high
crime cities in America and look at the church attendance numbers,
they are in historic declines. Why is that because you've
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killed community. It used to be you walked a church
in your neighborhood with your family, your friends, your neighbors.
If you live in a violent city and a violent neighborhood,
the chances of you knowing your neighbors, going out with
your neighbors, spending time with your neighbors, spending time in
a community, spend time outside of your home with your
family is very low. And if you want to know
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why we have so many empty churches on Sunday mornings
and some of these violent cities. Yes, there is a
direct correlation between failing schools and lack of faith in America.
In cities where there is crime and the criminals are
running the city, there are some of the most beautiful
churches that's seventy eighty percent empty on Sunday mornings and
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these violent cities because the elderly, by the way, who
I truly believe the elders, there's a reason why we
have elders in the church are the backbone of our community.
They're the backbone of our churches, the elder statesmen, and
if they're afraid to go to church because they're afraid
of the crime, and they don't feel safe in their
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own neighborhood, they don't feel safe to go to church,
they don't feel safe to go to the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What happens.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They end up becoming depressed, They end up sitting in
their homes, and they end up dying like hermits.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Crime isn't just killing people. It's killing cities.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's killing hopes, it's killing dreams, it's killing education, it's
killing faith in America today.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And so what the President I encourage him.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
To do is to keep doing what he's doing Number one,
but to go to these cities regardless of what the
local leaders say, and talk to the people directly. In
these top twenty most dangerousies, do a tour of America's
worst cities, and don't walk in and criticize. Walk in
and say, life should be better than this. Life should
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be safer for you and your grandparents and your kids.
Our churches and our schools should be places that people
can't wait to go to. Your children should be able
to play in your backyard, in your front yard and
not be behind at bars on the windows because it's
so crime ridden. Your kids should be able to sit
on the front porch at night and not be inside
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in case there's a drive by shooting. Yes, that's a
reality in many of the most dangerous cities in America.
I don't care who you are. You know if you're
not safe. Can I get an amen on that? You
know that if you were in an unsafe area, you know,
if you're in a community that is not safe, you
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know it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I know it, you know it. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You know. Many people are stuck in a neighborhood that
they wish they didn't live in because they're on a
fixed income, they're retired, they're in social Security, they live
their life, they did well, and unfortunately now they live
in a community that they can't afford to get out of,
and so they're stuck literally in hell. This is not
hard to fix. Let me give you some stats to
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prove my point. DC violent crime has dropped twenty two
percent after Trump's crackdown.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They've had zero homicide in the last week.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm gonna read you this article and every American, by
the way, I will repost this article on my ex
account at Ben Ferguson Show. I'll put it up on
a on on Instagram, follow me at Ben Ferguson Podcast
I and I'll put these stats in my podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So you can share it. But here are the stats.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Violent crime in DC has dropped twenty two percent of
the last week following Trump's crackdown the city. The article
says Fox News Digital detailed the stunning findings, which include
the fact that as of Wednesday afternoon, there were not one,
not two, not three, not ten, not fifteen, twenty, but
zero murders in Washington, DC over the last seven days.
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That is a feat that has not been seen for months.
Fox News Digital also said a few other stunning statistics
from the local police union, revealing that since Trump's federal takeover,
carjackings have dropped by eighty three percent, robberies have dropped
by forty six percent, zero murders in DZE during the
(24:03):
past week. The White House Officials Rapid Response page also
shared the news detailing the quote dramatic reductions in crime.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here's a local report about it.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
When the National Guard hit the ground in Washington last week,
that city's crime fight went into overdrive and now we're
seeing the impact and the dramatic reductions in crime. When
the National Guard rolled into Washington last week, the locals
seemed skeptical.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The crime is minimal here. There's not really a lot
of crime here lived in the right window, dress up
to me.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But with the Guard on the ground, crime is on
the decline. For the first time in a long time,
DC has gone seven days without a homicide. And that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, carthf's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
These kind of numbers going down, it basically says this
is a success and that means people feel safer.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Like many big cities, Washington's police department is critically short staff.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
People who don't feel safe aren't free.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Sergeant Betsy Smith with the National Police Association says it
is ripe for federal help. More police generally equals less crime.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
More police.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
What an idea, More police generally means less crime.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This is not hard to figure out.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why would all these other cities not want Donald Trump's help.
Forget the mayors, forget the politics. Why would any city
right now. Not be screaming, mister President, please help us.
We need the National Guard, send them in. We want
our carjackings down eighty three percent. We want robberies down
forty six percent. We went car theft down twenty one percent.
We want overall violent crime down twenty two percent. That
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is in a seven day period. This is the dramatic
reduction crime. And these numbers do seem shocking to me.
I also want to be clear about that, and probably
it's because we've been living in such an abusive relationship
in these big seas or so long that it seems
impossible to stop the violent crime. When you grow up
in a violent city, one of the most violent seas
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in America, it's an abusive relationship. I grew up in Memphis.
I say it again. I love my city, I really do.
But I can tell you this. I wouldn't tell anybody
to move there right now. In fact, I tell most
of my friends when we talk about this stuff, get out.
It's not worth your family's life, it's not worth living
in fear. When I moved out of Memphis, I moved
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from one of the most dangerous cities in America, the
murder capital of America to one of the safest cities
in all of America, and do you want to know
what happened? It took me about sixty days to figure
out just how much my life was consumed with thinking
about safety.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
About six months.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I actually forgot to lock my door one night at
my house, and I laughed the next morning because there's
no way in hell I would ever do that in
Memphis and Sea, like it would that accident doesn't happen
in Memphis, Tennessee. The idea of not locking your door
would not be an option when you live in a
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violent city. And if you're listening to me right now
and you live in one of the cities, you know
exactly what I'm talking about, Like you understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You're like, yeah, there's no way in hell.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
When I was a little boy, we went to Botanno,
North Dakota Sea my great grandmother, And when you grow
up in Memphis, there's a lot of rules. My dad
was by the way in law enforcement, so there was
like he knew and we knew just how dangerous the
city was. And I remember going to Boto, North Dakotesa
my great grandmother. She was I think in her eighties
at the time. And we got there and there was
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two things. As a little child, I'll never forget. Number One,
they always left the keys in the ignition in the
car and the driveway. No one was stealing cars and
bought no North Dakota. They had a real sense of community.
Number two, and this is even more important. They had
a community where everybody walked and everybody went to church.
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When you have a safe city, you have a real community.
People don't stay in their houses and lock their doors.
They go outside and they have an open door policy
to their family, their friends, and their neighbors. And the
most amazing thing that ever happened when I was a
little kid. It was one of those moments that, like
they say, is a core memory.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Was when I was there.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
My grandmo great grandmother looked at me and I was
a little kid, My sister was little, and she handed
us money and she said, you guys, walk down the
store and go get yourself some candy. And my parents said, yeah, yeah,
y'all go down there. We looked at my mom and
my dad like they were insane. You wouldn't when I
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lived in Memphis, you had to. My mom would walk
out into the street to watch me walk down to
our neighbor's house to make sure I made it safely.
And I wasn't allowed to walk home until I called,
so they could walk outside and watch me walk back
down the street. And those same parents are telling me
in Botano, North Dakota, you can go the grocery store
and go shopping by yourself. I was like what. I
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didn't even know what drugs were. I was so young,
but I knew something wasn't right. Wouldn't it be nice
if we got back to that way of life? And
the President I take to America is telling every one
of these cities you can do this.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We are ready to do it with you, We are
ready to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And the only thing that's holding these cities back is
the arrogance of the Democratic Marxists and socialists and communists
that are running these cities. They would rather their constituents
live in fear. They would rather than odeon fetnyl. They
would rather than be raped, they would rather than be shot.
They'd rather them be murdered than to actually work with
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Donald Trump, because Orange Man apparently is so bad that
they just can't work with him.
Well, Donald Trump, when he ran for president, what did
he say to America? He promised he was going to
be the law and order president, and he said he
was going to secure the southern border. He said he
was going to clean up the violent criminals that had
come into this country that were legal immigrants, the worst
among us. The rapists, the child molesters, the sex traffickers,
the human smugglers, the drug dealers, the murderers. The list
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goes on and on. The President has been doing that
even while Democrats are putting criminals and illegal immigrants ahead
of American citizens. Now, I'm not even sure the president
thought he was going to be able to secure the
board the way that he has been able to do
it in such a record setting time. And one of
the big perks of being able to secure the border
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so quickly, is it the President United States America said immediately, Okay,
what's next? Insert Washington, DC. Washington, DC crime is no
doubt out of control. I've talked about this before in DC.
I was there a couple weeks ago and the dorman,
the bellman, said to me, Hey, I got there and
(01:09):
they lost my bag, and I was like great, I
need like basic toilet trees and stuff. So I was like, hey,
is there like a Walgreen CBS. Now, I wonder what
you understand, saying I am one and a half blocks
from the White House, and he said, oh, up the
corner pass Old Ebbitt on the right, up there there's
a CBS.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Perfect go to the CVS.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I get to the CBS and everything, and I mean
everything is locked up. They had the deodorant locked up.
That costs I don't know, four eighty six for a
stick of deodorant. That is how bad crime is in Washington,
d C. That you have to lock up deodorant. I
then went over the toothpaste because I was gonna get
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toothpaste that was locked up as well. The toothbrushes were
locked up. And then I needed a razor.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They were locked up.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
You literally couldn't buy any toiletries that I needed without
hitting a button. And then an intercom system saying customer
needs help on Aisle four at razors or whatever it said,
or deodorant. That is how out of control crime was
in DC. Now who was committing the crimes? A lot
of the crime was actually coming by juveniles. Juveniles had
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not been held accountable for their actions under Bowser. Now,
you would think that Mayor Bowser would be in favor
of having a safe city because she's the same woman
that's obsessed with Black lives matter. Right, it's the same
city that painted a street black Lives Matter going to
the White House. This is a city right where Black
Lives Matter was everything. Well, if black lives actually mattered,
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then you would probably try to, like, I don't know,
stop the murders and the killing and the beating and
the attacks and the stealing from African Americans. If African
Americans matter, you would think this would be, like, I
don't know, a top priority, which is where we lead
to Donald Trump's brilliance. Donald Trump understands that it's actually
(03:09):
not that hard to fight crime. You catch criminals, you
arrest them, you prosecute them, and you don't let them
out of jail. Now we know that George Brows and
his money gave us a ton of what we would
describe as activist das. I describe them as anarchists in
law enforcement. Their job is simple, let the criminals out,
(03:31):
don't hold them accountable, don't even keep them in jail,
even when they're committing hainous crimes and empty out the prisons,
because what Soros and the Left want is prison reform
and bail reform. They want to make sure that if
you commit a crime and you have a certain skin color, especially,
you're not held accountable. They want to make sure that
if you commit a Hanus crime and you're African American,
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you don't have a lot of money, that you can
just disappear and walk straight out of that courtroom and
give cash us bail, because they believe it's racist for
you to have to put up money when you commit
heinous crimes. This is the Democratic Party. And so what
Donald Trump saw in Washington, d C. Was an opportunity.
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It wasn't just an opportunity to clean up DC. That
you have to understand. Donald Trump was playing chess while
these other idiot mayors were playing checkers. What Donald Trump
understood is number one, the city where our nation's capital
is should be safe. We have millions and millions of
tourists to go there. We have people that have to
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go to Washingt d C.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
To do their job. If you were in Congress, for example.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And so the President clearly understood that his goal was
to clean up a city, and he knew he could
do it with the help of law enforcement in allowing
them to actually do their job. There was also a
second part of the equation, and this goes back to
playing chess while others are playing checkers.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
This is the art of the deal, is another way
of putting it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The President of the United States of America also knew
that if you wanted to prove a point that you
can clean up cities like Memphis, my hometown where I
was born and raised, Chicago, Saint Louis, New Orleans, Baltimore,
New York City, New Jersey, San Francisco, La, Denver, the Detroit.
(05:21):
The list goes on and on of high crime major cities. Now,
if there's one thing that's in common with all these
high crime cities, they're all run by Democrats. They have
the majority of the city council or the border aldermen
in the mayor's offices.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Go look at the top.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Twenty most dangerous cities in America, and they are all
run by the Democratic Party. In fact, if you put
into Google right now, top twenty most dangerous cities, go
look at them from US News. Look at the numbers,
look at what they tell you. The most dangerous cities.
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Memphis number one, Democratic run, Saint Louis number two, run
by Democrats, Little Rock number three run by democrats, Minneapolis
number four run by democrats, Detroit number five run by
Democrat majority. There, Kansas City Democratic majority there, New Orleans
Democratic majority there at seven, Cleveland Democratic majority there number eight,
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Birmingham Democratic majority. City number nine that is in Houston
comes at number ten, Democratic run city, Milwaukee at eleven,
Democratic run city, Orlando Democratic run city at twelve. Like
you noticed, there's a trend here, right, There's a pattern here.
Baltimore thirteen, most sederors city in America?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What are they? Run by democrats?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Atlanta run by democrats fourteen, Stockton Democrats run the place fifteen,
New York sixteen run by democrats, Phoenix run by Democrats
at seventeen, Los Angeles at eighteen, Las Vegas at nineteen,
all run by Democrats, and finally Miami run by Democrats.
So if you will at the numbers, and that's not
the murder rate, that was just dangerous cities, you go
(07:03):
to the murder rate, same thing's gonna happen, going to
be very close to the same order that I just
mentioned there and so the president I tips in America said, Okay,
if I can federalize and take over law enforcement and
restore law and order very quickly in washing DC, this
is going to put Democrats on the defensive in all
these other cities because I'm going to make it clear
in those other cities that I am willing to come
(07:23):
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did in DC with federal resources. In your city. All
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go back to my hometown where I was born and
raised in Memphis, Sennessee. You have a mayor there that
will never allow for the National Guard to come in
and help. He could have the city on fire, and
I don't think he would do it. You gotta have
riot and looting. I'm not sure he we do it
because in his minds, he hates Donald Trump more than
he likes sitting the lie of the citizens of his city.
(10:04):
All of these other cities that I mentioned, you're dealing
with the same exact thing. So then the question becomes
in these hardcore liberal cities, if you know that the
presidente It's America has come to town, and you know
that when he has come to town or talking about
your town, that he is offering you genuine help and
that your city actually could be incredibly safe, could be
(10:26):
unbelievably safe. If your mayor would say, please help, mister President,
how mad are you going to be? You witness what's
happening in Washington, d C. They haven't had a murder
I think it's in six or seven days now. I
want you to think about that. They haven't had a
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murder in six or seven days.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That is an unbelievable number.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That is a number that even I think the President
couldn't have imagined. I want you to listen to President
as he was doing this walk right after DC. He says,
we're going to make other places safer. Why did he
say it that way? He is telling the rest of
the world, if you live in a city that is dangerous,
I am here to help you. You're gonna have to
talk to your mayor and get him to do what's
(11:16):
right for you.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Listen to President in his own words.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So many phone calls thanking me for what we've done
in Washington, d C. From people that haven't gone to
a restaurant literally in four years, and they said, you
know what you've done is it's unprecedented because what they
they they said it was just unsafe. We couldn't do
it would go out and you'd see the stories. You'd
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read the stories, you see all of the things that
are happening, and they said, we just we couldn't we
couldn't stand it, Sarah. Now I take my wife and
my kids to dinner. They one of them said, he's
gone out four nights in a row and he hadn't
gone out for four years. So it's it's a great
tribute to you. And when I look at you people,
(12:01):
I understand why because there's no.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Games, right, we're not playing games.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're gonna make it safe and we're going to then
go on to other places, but we're going to stay
here for a while. We want to make this absolutely perfect.
Just our capital, and I guess it used to be
many years ago, say, but it certainly not had a
very good run. And you've got to be strong, you've
got to be tough, you've got to do your job.
Whatever it takes to do your job. You got to
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do your job. But the crime numbers are way down.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm looking at you.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Saw some of the stats that just read them out
to me inside the numbers that we haven't seen here ever,
actually ever, And I think it's probably right now it's
to me. I feel very safe now and I'm hearing
people are very safe. But I know within two weeks
it's going to be pam, It's going to be at
a level that's even far superior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
The President of the United States of America is telling
every liberal danger city in America, I am here to
help you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Why will Democrats not take him up on making their
cities safer?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Why would any mayor that has a dangerous city one
of those deadly cities in America. I go back to
my hometown of Memphis, because I love my hometown, but
people are fleeing left and right. Why would you not say, yes,
mister President, let's be biparison this.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Please come in and help me save black lives.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Because I promise you that all the people on the
city council in Memphis, I know most of them, and
the mayor have all been up there yelling black lives matter.
That the same people that walked out to the bridge
and shut down the famous Memphis Bridge and a name
of black Lives Matter with a guy by the way
that was had an unrest worn out for him while
the police were walking arm in arm with him as
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he was shutting down traffic illegally.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why would you not in that moment, why would you
not say yes, Yes, mister President, I can put politics
aside because I.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Want to save black lives.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The majority of the cities I mentioned earlier are majority
African American cities. The majority of people that are killed
in these cities are African Americans. That are being killed
in these cities, The majority of the victims the most
violent crimes are African American. The majority of the people
that are being raped are African American. The majority of
children that are being sexually abused are African American in
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these most dangerous cities.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
If black lives.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Matter, then why would these mayors or these cities not say,
mister President, we need your help. We're one of the
most dangerous cities in America and we want you to
come in and do.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Exactly what you just did.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That is working overwhelmingly in a city that is very
much like ours, Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
That's why the presidents said, we're not done here yet.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
We're going to make it safe, and we're going to
go other places, but we're going.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
To stay here for a while.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He's also sending the message when it comes to law enforcement,
you can't just come in and clean up and disappear.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You have to have a presence.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Now, let me also just say publicly what my piece
of advice is for this White House right now. And
I will say this to people I know there, but
I want to say publicly with you guys right now.
I think this is a major opportunity for President Trump
to go into some of these liberal cities in the
very near future with the data of how massive of
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a success Washington, DC's cleanup has been and go directly
the people in that city and tell the people in
that city. You have to reach out to your city councilman,
you have to reach out to your governor. You have
to reach out to your mayor's office. You're going to
have to demand that they ask for the help that
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you guys need to make your city safer. I think
the president should go two of the top twenty most
dangerous cities. I think you should sit there on stage
with elected officials and call them out to their face
in a very diplomatic way. Because this doesn't need to
come across as like I'm right and you're wrong. It
needs to come across with I'm here to help. I
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am here to give you whatever you need to protect
the black lives of your city that are getting destroyed
by the violent criminals in your city. I go back
to this, This is an African American issue in the
majority of these cities.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And so if you want.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
To if you want me to believe Democrats that you
truly care about black lives, that you honestly.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Care about saving Black lives.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
By the way, especially young black lives. Let's also remember
how many young people are dying, how many young people
are sending themselves up to just go to jail. Look
at the number of violent criminals and the number of
anarchists that we witness in Washington, d C. The majority
of the people that are doing a lot of these
crimes and the shoplifting are actually under the age eighteen.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Why.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I can tell you why, one reason and one reason only.
They know they're not going to go to jail. They
know that they get caught, nothing was going to happen
to them. Why else do you think this happened. Why
else do you think that they did this? Well, let
me also just explain to you how the gangs work,
so you understand the gangs are really smart. They use
young people under the age of eighteen on purpose, and
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they use them because they know they won't be held accountable.
I want you to just think about that. They know
that they will not be held accountable for their actions.
That's why they do it. You step back and you
look at this country right now, and it is very
clear that every major city in America is run by Democrats.
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Is a city that is filled with violent criminals. Many
of them are filled with violent criminal, illegal aliens. Many
of them are filled with child rapists, sex offenders, and
a network of drug cartel members. And by the way,
I'm going to talk about the drug cartels and going
after them because they've been designated terrorist organizations in a moment,
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something I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of going
after them, and there's a very good chance that may
be what the President's going to do in Mexico very
very soon.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But they're filled with the lawlessness.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
This is the time where we as Republicans and conservatives,
I think, have an opportunity to make real inroads in
inner city America, where overwhelming they've been voting for Democrats
for decades. At seventy eighty percent. This is that moment
where you can look at Washington, d C. And show
them that there is an actual chance of safe and
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secure neighborhoods regardless of where you live.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If you restore the law and order, and then once you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Get that safety and you get that security, you're then
in a much better place because at that point you
have citizens that start to be inspired to go out
in their communities, to be involved in their communities. By
the way, you know what, there's two things that are
very interesting about.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Crime.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
If you're in a high crime area, did you know
that it's almost guaranteed that your kids are in a
failing school.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
If black lives really matter to the Democratic Party like
they claim, then they would want young black lives to
not be set up for failure, but set up for
success in a public school that is not a failure.
By the way, it's also the reason why I'm in
favor of school choice. You may not know this, but
did you know if you're in a high crime city,
not only are you more likely to be in a
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failing school than a successful school, but you're you're also
more likely to let me rephrase that, you're less likely
to go to church you look at the most high
crime cities in America and look at the church attendance numbers,
they are in historic declines. Why is that because you've
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killed community. It used to be you walked a church
in your neighborhood with your family, your friends, your neighbors.
If you live in a violent city and a violent neighborhood,
the chances of you knowing your neighbors, going out with
your neighbors, spending time with your neighbors, spending time in
a community, spend time outside of your home with your
family is very low. And if you want to know
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why we have so many empty churches on Sunday mornings
and some of these violent cities. Yes, there is a
direct correlation between failing schools and lack of faith in America.
In cities where there is crime and the criminals are
running the city, there are some of the most beautiful
churches that's seventy eighty percent empty on Sunday mornings and
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these violent cities because the elderly, by the way, who
I truly believe the elders, there's a reason why we
have elders in the church are the backbone of our community.
They're the backbone of our churches, the elder statesmen, and
if they're afraid to go to church because they're afraid
of the crime, and they don't feel safe in their
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own neighborhood, they don't feel safe to go to church,
they don't feel safe to go to the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What happens.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They end up becoming depressed, They end up sitting in
their homes, and they end up dying like hermits.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Crime isn't just killing people. It's killing cities.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's killing hopes, it's killing dreams, it's killing education, it's
killing faith in America today.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
And so what the President I encourage him.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
To do is to keep doing what he's doing Number one,
but to go to these cities regardless of what the
local leaders say, and talk to the people directly. In
these top twenty most dangerousies, do a tour of America's
worst cities, and don't walk in and criticize. Walk in
and say, life should be better than this. Life should
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be safer for you and your grandparents and your kids.
Our churches and our schools should be places that people
can't wait to go to. Your children should be able
to play in your backyard, in your front yard and
not be behind at bars on the windows because it's
so crime ridden. Your kids should be able to sit
on the front porch at night and not be inside
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in case there's a drive by shooting. Yes, that's a
reality in many of the most dangerous cities in America.
I don't care who you are. You know if you're
not safe. Can I get an amen on that? You
know that if you were in an unsafe area, you know,
if you're in a community that is not safe, you
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know it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I know it, you know it. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
You know. Many people are stuck in a neighborhood that
they wish they didn't live in because they're on a
fixed income, they're retired, they're in social Security, they live
their life, they did well, and unfortunately now they live
in a community that they can't afford to get out of,
and so they're stuck literally in hell. This is not
hard to fix. Let me give you some stats to
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prove my point. DC violent crime has dropped twenty two
percent after Trump's crackdown.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They've had zero homicide in the last week.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm gonna read you this article and every American, by
the way, I will repost this article on my ex
account at Ben Ferguson Show. I'll put it up on
a on on Instagram, follow me at Ben Ferguson Podcast
I and I'll put these stats in my podcast.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
So you can share it. But here are the stats.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Violent crime in DC has dropped twenty two percent of
the last week following Trump's crackdown the city. The article
says Fox News Digital detailed the stunning findings, which include
the fact that as of Wednesday afternoon, there were not one,
not two, not three, not ten, not fifteen, twenty, but
zero murders in Washington, DC over the last seven days.
(23:40):
That is a feat that has not been seen for months.
Fox News Digital also said a few other stunning statistics
from the local police union, revealing that since Trump's federal takeover,
carjackings have dropped by eighty three percent, robberies have dropped
by forty six percent, zero murders in DZE during the
(24:03):
past week. The White House Officials Rapid Response page also
shared the news detailing the quote dramatic reductions in crime.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here's a local report about it.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
When the National Guard hit the ground in Washington last week,
that city's crime fight went into overdrive and now we're
seeing the impact and the dramatic reductions in crime. When
the National Guard rolled into Washington last week, the locals
seemed skeptical.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The crime is minimal here. There's not really a lot
of crime here lived in the right window, dress up
to me.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But with the Guard on the ground, crime is on
the decline. For the first time in a long time,
DC has gone seven days without a homicide. And that's
not all. Carjackings are down eighty three percent, robberies are
down forty six percent, carthf's down twenty one percent, and
overall violent crime is down twenty two percent.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
These kind of numbers going down, it basically says this
is a success and that means people feel safer.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Like many big cities, Washington's police department is critically short staff.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
People who don't feel safe aren't free.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Sergeant Betsy Smith with the National Police Association says it
is ripe for federal help. More police generally equals less crime.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
More police.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
What an idea, More police generally means less crime.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
This is not hard to figure out.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Why would all these other cities not want Donald Trump's help.
Forget the mayors, forget the politics. Why would any city
right now. Not be screaming, mister President, please help us.
We need the National Guard, send them in. We want
our carjackings down eighty three percent. We want robberies down
forty six percent. We went car theft down twenty one percent.
We want overall violent crime down twenty two percent. That
(25:56):
is in a seven day period. This is the dramatic
reduction crime. And these numbers do seem shocking to me.
I also want to be clear about that, and probably
it's because we've been living in such an abusive relationship
in these big seas or so long that it seems
impossible to stop the violent crime. When you grow up
in a violent city, one of the most violent seas
(26:17):
in America, it's an abusive relationship. I grew up in Memphis.
I say it again. I love my city, I really do.
But I can tell you this. I wouldn't tell anybody
to move there right now. In fact, I tell most
of my friends when we talk about this stuff, get out.
It's not worth your family's life, it's not worth living
in fear. When I moved out of Memphis, I moved
(26:38):
from one of the most dangerous cities in America, the
murder capital of America to one of the safest cities
in all of America, and do you want to know
what happened? It took me about sixty days to figure
out just how much my life was consumed with thinking
about safety.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
About six months.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I actually forgot to lock my door one night at
my house, and I laughed the next morning because there's
no way in hell I would ever do that in
Memphis and Sea, like it would that accident doesn't happen
in Memphis, Tennessee. The idea of not locking your door
would not be an option when you live in a
(27:21):
violent city. And if you're listening to me right now
and you live in one of the cities, you know
exactly what I'm talking about, Like you understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You're like, yeah, there's no way in hell.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
When I was a little boy, we went to Botanno,
North Dakota Sea my great grandmother, And when you grow
up in Memphis, there's a lot of rules. My dad
was by the way in law enforcement, so there was
like he knew and we knew just how dangerous the
city was. And I remember going to Boto, North Dakotesa
my great grandmother. She was I think in her eighties
at the time. And we got there and there was
(27:53):
two things. As a little child, I'll never forget. Number One,
they always left the keys in the ignition in the
car and the driveway. No one was stealing cars and
bought no North Dakota. They had a real sense of community.
Number two, and this is even more important. They had
a community where everybody walked and everybody went to church.
(28:16):
When you have a safe city, you have a real community.
People don't stay in their houses and lock their doors.
They go outside and they have an open door policy
to their family, their friends, and their neighbors. And the
most amazing thing that ever happened when I was a
little kid. It was one of those moments that, like
they say, is a core memory.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Was when I was there.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
My grandmo great grandmother looked at me and I was
a little kid, My sister was little, and she handed
us money and she said, you guys, walk down the
store and go get yourself some candy. And my parents said, yeah, yeah,
y'all go down there. We looked at my mom and
my dad like they were insane. You wouldn't when I
(28:58):
lived in Memphis, you had to. My mom would walk
out into the street to watch me walk down to
our neighbor's house to make sure I made it safely.
And I wasn't allowed to walk home until I called,
so they could walk outside and watch me walk back
down the street. And those same parents are telling me
in Botano, North Dakota, you can go the grocery store
and go shopping by yourself. I was like what. I
(29:20):
didn't even know what drugs were. I was so young,
but I knew something wasn't right. Wouldn't it be nice
if we got back to that way of life? And
the President I take to America is telling every one
of these cities you can do this.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
We are ready to do it with you, We are
ready to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And the only thing that's holding these cities back is
the arrogance of the Democratic Marxists and socialists and communists
that are running these cities. They would rather their constituents
live in fear. They would rather than odeon fetnyl. They
would rather than be raped, they would rather than be shot.
They'd rather them be murdered than to actually work with
(29:58):
Donald Trump, because Orange Man apparently is so bad that
they just can't work with him.
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