Trump Declares War on DC Crime as Media Spins plus Trump Expands Immigration Crackdown in Red States
August 14, 2025 • 34 mins
1. Federal Control Over Washington D.C.
- Sources claim Trump has taken direct control of law enforcement in Washington D.C., including deploying the National Guard and ICE.
- It argues that D.C.'s unique federal status allows Trump to bypass local resistance.
- The narrative portrays Trump as restoring law and order to a city described as more violent than Baghdad.
2. Criticism of D.C. Leadership
- Mayor Muriel Bowser is depicted as being in denial about rising crime rates.
- The commentary disputes her claims of crime reduction, citing homicide statistics and statements from former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund.
3. Immigration Enforcement Expansion
- Details agreements between ICE and three states: West Virginia, South Dakota, and Arkansas.
- These agreements allow state law enforcement to perform immigration duties under ICE supervision.
- The text emphasizes a crackdown on undocumented immigrants and links illegal immigration to crime and drug trafficking, especially fentanyl.
4. Autopen Scandal & Allegations Against Joe Biden
- Raises concerns about Biden’s use of the autopen to sign pardons and commutations.
- Suggests Biden was mentally unfit during his presidency and implies that unelected individuals, possibly including his wife, were making executive decisions.
- Includes commentary from Newt Gingrich and others questioning the legality and ethics of Biden’s actions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Democrats doubling down on the idea that Donald Trump has
gone rogue insane in taking over control of police law
enforcement in Washingt d C. Now, to be clear, this
is not something that he can do in other states
or cities without there being some sort of cooperation.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
DC's very different. We all know that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The media, however, is trying to say that Donald Trump's
about to just take over everywhere and anywhere he wants.
That is not exactly what the President's trying to do
at all. In fact, Donald Trump did say this about
other cities that are paying attention to d C.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're going to have a tremendous success in what we're doing.
Other cities are hopefully watching this. They're all watching, just
like everyone's watching here. They're all watching, and maybe they'll
self clean up and maybe they'll self do this and
get rid of the cash list bail thing and all
of the things that caused the problem. I mean, if
(01:00):
you go back, this whole thing with cash list bail
is a disaster. So many problems came that we we
never had before. So they're watching us today, and if
they don't learn their lesson, if they haven't studied us properly,
because we're going to be very successful. I have a
zero doubt about that. It's going to be say, a
question of will would be really fast.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Like the border.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You notice the President clearly is playing chess. Why is
he talking the way he is about all of this.
He's doing it because he's sending a message that it's
going to prove a point that having adequate law enforcement,
backing that law enforcement and allowing them to do their
job is how you clean up a city. And Washington,
d C. Is the nation's capital. It should be the
(01:43):
safest city in all of America. Stephen Miller making also
this point at the White House about how dangerous DC is,
comparing it to Bagdad in Iraq.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The President has been very clear that he's going to
take the action necessary to secure the city of Washington
for the people who live here, for all the American
people and all who visit here is our capital city.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It is more violent than Baghdad.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It is more violent than parts of Ethiopia and parts
of many of the most dangerous places.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
In the world. It's really shocking.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
If you should look at the graph that has been
shown comparing parts of some of the most dangerous field
states in the world. Compared to d C, DC is
more violent, and so he's going to do what's necessary
to make sure our nation's capital is safe for all Americans.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
By the way, fact check it. Go ahead, check and
see if Washington, d C. Is more violent than Baghdad.
The answer will be yes. This is what democrats are
hoping you will not believe, hoping that you will just
look the other way and not see the reality of
exactly what is happening right now now. The President also
(02:49):
making it clear that because the federal government is now
in control of Washington, d C, it also denies DC
their sanctuary city status. Tom Homan saying that on Fox
News Channel, where now this allows for him to work
with Ice and also to work to get illegal immigrant
criminals out of the city.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Quickly, let me ask you about the DC situation, and
does the fact that there's National Guard there Now it's
a sanctuary city like sanctuary cities across the country, but
it's unique in that it has federal control and now
you've got National Guard on the ground side by side
with Ice. Does that combination basically negate the sanctuary city
(03:32):
status in Washington, d C. At least for these thirty
days in terms of what you can do there.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Tom, Yes, I think DC under fire. The control is
now going to be a sanctuary city. We're working with
the police hand in hand. We encounter a criminal illegal
alien that we turned over ice, and that's where should be.
I mean, I'm not saying every illegal alien in DC
is a criminal, but many are. So these are people
won't focus on it. Illegal alien criminal safety threat in
(03:59):
DC is not going to be protected. There's no sanctuary
for these people in the city of DC.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There is no sanctuary for these people in DC.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you look at all of this, And now we're
hearing from the former Capitol Police Chief Stephen Son, who said,
the bigger picture here shows that the media and Democrats
are actually lying. Democrats are trying to convince you that Washington,
d C. Is a very safe place, that there's not
a crime issue, and that crime is falling drastically, and
(04:31):
Donald Trump is just trying to grandstand over what Democrats
have somehow done to make Washington, DC safe. Yes, it's absurd,
but that's what they're trying to sell. Now, the bigger
picture shows Seek's crime is actually on the rise. That's
what the former Capitol Police chief said during an interview today,
the day after President Trump announced he's placing the DC
(04:53):
Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and activating the
National Guard to restore law and order to the nation's capital.
Sun explained that there are several agencies working together to
secure DC and highlighted that Trump is a very very
detailed oriented person, saying, quote, in case people don't know that,
it is not uncommon for him to be driving in
(05:16):
a motor kid and realize, hey, street lights are out,
or look at that, or look at that graffiti and
make a notification on it. This is how detail oriented
the President actually is. So for him to see some
of the crime that's happening in some of the assaults
that are occurring.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And Navy Yard is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Just six blocks south of the Capitol, short distance from
the White House, it's a big area to see these
gangs of youth kind of taking it over. It doesn't
surprise me that they're now going to pull these federal
resources together and form a task force, explaining, Look, we've
done this before, saying quote, we did this in the
early nineteen nineties when I was with DC Police. We
(05:56):
were able to drive down homicide rates when the chief.
When heir was chief, think that was about twenty ten,
twenty fourteen, we had a homicide rate that was maybe
right around one hundred, one hundred and seventy year. Now
twenty twenty three you got two hundred and seventy four homicides,
so you had a significant increase. He said, this is
(06:17):
the big problem, and this is why the present is
having to do what he's doing now. So when people
talk about, oh, hey, there's a big drop, as the
DC mayor has tried to claim that the number of
homicides is somehow down in twenty four from twenty three
and so therefore everything's fine. That's what the DC narrative
has been pushed by the mayor Bowser. It doesn't add
(06:39):
up with reality, he said, quote so when people talk about,
oh there's a big drop, there's a drop from twenty
three to twenty four, but you look at the overall rate,
it's still significant double the number of murders that we
had in twenty ten. That's what the former police chief
of DC pointed out. Explain that there used to be
a time when the crime really stated in certain neighborhoods.
(07:01):
Now it's everywhere. Now it's all throughout the city. So
they're going to deploy into these areas and really focus
focus on crime, focus on your most violent offenders, your
repeat offenders. He continued, urging officials to zero in on
juvenile crime, which Democrats have in essence, sanction those under
eighteen to do whatever they want. Quote, They've always historically
(07:24):
been very soft on punishment on juvenile crime, and the
concern with it is if you don't begin to address
behavior at a young age, it's just going to get worse.
Emphasizing that the DC homicide rate is five to six
times that of any other major city in the United
States of America, which brings us back to the big
(07:46):
point about why is the mayor of DC fighting this, Well,
it's pretty simple. She hates Donald Trump and she doesn't
want to be seen as someone that actually is a failure.
That's why the DC mayor Bowser is in denial. Trump's
plan to combat crime in our city is quote unsettling
and unprecedented. She said, Well, the Democratic mayor is in
(08:09):
denial about what has happened under her watch in a
crime ridden city, asserting that President Trump's view of the
nation's capitalists quote shaped by his COVID era experience during
his first term, and claiming that crime has already been
robustly addressed. Deeming Trump's actions, as I mentioned, unsettling and unprecedented.
(08:31):
Bowser kicked off the press conference and the positive elements
of DC, repeatedly calling it quote beautiful Washington, DC is
a beautiful city, a magnificent city, possibly saying these words
to try to mock Donald Trump. We're home to seven
hundred thousand Washington Washington residents. We welcome millions of visitors
every year from around our nation, around the world. We
have the nation's premier park system, she claims, fantastic public schools.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The data doesn't back that up, by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And then she says, including a free and row US
pre K program starting at age three. We have a
tremendous public transportation system. She went on to brag, which,
by the way, people are now afraid to use quote.
It's very important to me that for all who live
here and visit here, just know how beautiful our city
is and how proud we are of all the accomplishments here,
(09:19):
reminding listeners of the quote basics, saying quote, we're unique
in other ways as well, though We pay taxes. In fact,
we pay more than most states per capita. We're not
a state. We don't control the DC National Guard, we
don't have siners or full autonomy. Limited home rule gives
the federal government the ability to intrude on our autonomy
(09:41):
in many ways, she said, before delving into Trump's move
to address crime in the city. I've seen this before,
I've said it before, and I'll repeat it. I believe
that President Trump's view of DC's shaped by his COVID
era experience during his first term. And it's true that
those were more challenging times really to some issues. Is
(10:01):
also true that we experienced a crime spike post COVID,
but we worked quickly to put laws in place and
tactics that got violent offenders off our streets and gave
our police officers more tools, which is why we've seen
a huge decrease in crime. So is there actually a
huge decrease in crime? The answer is also no. She's
lying to you, Yet she continues to say, quote because
(10:23):
of those efforts, we've been able to reverse the twenty
twenty three crime spike this year alone, bragging the DC
is at a thirty year violent crime low.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, Yeah, that may be true.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's still way more violent than the majority of American cities,
and you're way more likely to be killed there than
even in Baghdad. And that is exactly why Donald Trump said,
I'm taking over. I'm not waiting on you to do
your job you should have done a long time ago.
The nation's capital has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals,
(10:56):
roathing mobs of wild youth, drugged out many acts, and
homeless people. And we're not going to let it happen anymore,
Trump said during his press conference, yet again putting law
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is democrats biggest fear. Law and order returning state by
state and states now working with the Trump administration and
(13:37):
ICE officials. Specifically, we now have three states that have
signed a new agreement with ICE for quote expanded immigration
enforcement operations. These three states include West Virginia, South Dakota,
and Arkansas, all signing the agreements with the Department of
(14:00):
Own Securities, US Immigration Customs Enforcement to specifically, they say,
ramp up immigration enforcement within their jurisdictions. West Virginia was
the first one. The governor there, Patrick Morsey, announced a
robust collaboration under Section two eight seven G of the
(14:20):
Immigration and Nationality Act. This agreement enlists the West Virginia
State Police, Corrections and Rehabilitation Division and the National Guard
to assist ICE in immigration enforcement. Translation, if you're an
legal immigrant, you don't want to be in West Virginia
right now now. Under this task force, structure, officers can
(14:43):
quote interrogate anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. Number
two process immigration violations for individuals already rested for other offenses.
Three conduct warrantless arrests if an in individual is seen
and suspected to be a flight risk pending a warrant.
(15:05):
Four serve immigration warrants, administer oas, collect fingerprints and gather evidence.
And five issue immigration detainers and hold individuals in correctional
facilities before transferring them to ICE custy under federal supervision.
You look at what has happened in South Dakota. The
(15:27):
governor there, as part of his quote Operation Prairie Thunder,
a public safety initiative, will now have the South Dakota
Highway Patrols support ICE with the rests announcing it today.
The National Guard assists with the processing and administrative tasks
as well, and the Department of Corrections will help transport detainees,
(15:48):
identify undocumented individuals within state prisons, and parole them into
ICE custody.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You then move to Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Governor Sarah Huckabee, said, former White House pre Secretary under
Donald Trump, signing the Defense Against Criminal Illegals Act, which
definitively increases penalties for undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes,
again saying to illegal immigrants, you don't want to be
in Arkansas. It also, with this new agreement, allows sheriffs
(16:20):
to apply for the two to eight to seven G
authority to serve immigration warrants on those already in custody,
and Sarah Uckebee Centers announcing this enables the Arkansas State
Police to stop individuals in public, inquire about immigration status
and potentially arrest suspected undocumented immigrants. Now, if you think
(16:44):
they're doing this lighthearted, you're wrong. For example, in Arkansas,
there is training required, a forty hour online course covering
scope immigration law, civil rights, cross cultural issues, as well
as liability. Doing this in a responsible way. Now you
may be asking what is ICE two eight seven G program. Well,
(17:06):
let me explain to you the broader context of how
this is being used by the Trump administration. The program
enables state and local officers, after ICE provided training, to
carry out certain immigration enforcement duties under ICE supervision. That
is why there's a collaboration here and why they are
(17:26):
having to sign on to the program. Now, as of
August thirteenth, ICE has executed eight hundred and ninety seven
agreements across forty states, including various models such as jail enforcement,
warrant service, and task force operations. The Trump administration has
(17:47):
significantly accelerated these partnerships, growing from around one hundred and
thirty five to over seven hundred agreements in early twenty
twenty five alone.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Of course, the left.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is going insane, warning that the surge is a risk
to quote civil rights community trust and invites, they say,
racial profiling, even though none of these programs have anything
to do with that. Now, you also may be asking yourself,
why am I not quoting the president right now when
I'm telling you about this initiative, Well, the President clearly
(18:20):
is playing chess on the issue. In fact, the White
House has had no public statement or reaction regarding these
specific agreements with West Virginia, South Dakota, and Arkansas, mainly
because they want this to be clearly seen as state
led that these governors are opting in. And that is
exactly why the administration is being so successful in getting
(18:44):
this done with so many different agreements, because they're not grandstanding.
They're just trying to fight crime, and it's clearly working.
And when you also take a listen to West Virginia's
governor responding to the Trump administration's position on immigration force
and entering into this agreement, and what he says it's
going to do for his state, and also why so
(19:05):
many other states should get involved.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
We always thought that when you're talking about the Biden
border disorder, which is what occurred for four years, that
the best way to deal with it is to have
a partnership between the states and the federal government. Now
you're seeing that with the Trump administration, which is incredible.
So West Virginia has actually entered into the two to
eighty seven g program and so we're working hand in
(19:30):
hand with ICE to identify illegal aliens and make sure
that they can get deported.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
And this is.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Really important to do because, as President Trump said yesterday,
when you actually remove a lot of these illegal aliens
from the system, you're going to see a reduction in crime.
That there are a number of people we found it
even in West Virginia. Murderers, attempted murder, sexual assaults, all
different types of crime. None of the states need it.
(19:57):
Now we have a partnership with the Trumpet administration and
it's fabulous. I know that I've talked to a Homeland
Security secretary, Christy Nome. I've praised her for her We're
trying to work together with them because it takes states
working with the federal government to make sure that we're
kind of reasserting our position and stopping all the horrific
(20:19):
consequences of what happened with the illegal immigrants coming in.
I know in West Virginia we really felt the impact
of that through the massive amount of death that flowed
from fetnyl that flooded into our state, originally from China,
went through the Mexican drug cartels, made its way into
the US. I think you're seeing a very different and
(20:40):
a much more successful approach, and I'm glad that our
state is a part of that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
One of the most important things that was said there
by the West Virginia governor was how he said West
Virginia had quote become an effective border state due to
the massive FETNOH problem caused by illegal immigrats. The federal
outbreak in West Virginia has been catastrophic, especially on young people.
(21:06):
This is one of the reasons why the governor said
he's so eager to work with ICE because of how
many lives he believes he's going to be able to save. Now,
the National Guard and the State police will have quote
task force authority and that is going to be huge
and going after the drug traffickers. Why, it gives them
the authority to interrogate any person they believe to be
(21:30):
an I legal immigrant as to his right to remain
in the US now under the supervision or direction of
the federal government, meaning ICE agents. Officers will also be
able to process immigration related violations for those arrested for
state or federal offenses. This is going to allow the
(21:52):
governor and his team to actually be able to do
what they need to do. It also allows for them
to have quote warrantless arrests of any illegal immigrant in
the officer's presence or view if that person is believed
to be a flight risk in the interim of obtaining
a warrant. So the governor they are authorizing the state
(22:13):
law enforcement to serve immigration warrants, administer os, and collect
evidence for required alien processing. This will allow for fingerprinting
and suspect interviews to be done. Now, this is also
going to have a huge impact just on the psyche
of illegal immigrants and cartel members in West Virginia because
(22:35):
now they understand that virtually anyone in law enforcement now
can do the job they need to do to find
out who they are and stop them, something that was
not happening under the Biden regime. And that's why the
President's being pretty quiet about this, because it's happening in
real time, and he's letting the governors lead in these states.
(22:57):
It is the traditional August recess. It's happening right now
in Washington, d C. Congress is back in their districts
in theory, tending to business of listening to the constituents.
That doesn't mean there isn't anything going on with the
House Auto Pen probe. In fact, it's uncovering a lot
about the Biden White House. Even as Congress is on
(23:19):
their traditional recess. The House Oversight Committee, i've been told today,
is still investigating the LEDs cover up of former President
Joe Biden's decline. The former president insisting he was responsible
for quote all decisions that came out of the White
House during his time in office, and former staff members
claim they saw no obvious signs of a cognitive decline. Well,
(23:43):
the House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer discussing the committee's
investigation to whether the Biden administration covered up the cognitive
deterioration of the former president. Now, there's also been the
question of precedent. What is the autopen like in the past.
Can you compare how other government officials use the autopen
(24:03):
in contrast to how it was being used when Joe
Biden was in office. Clearly that would help tremendously in
the investigation. Well, former Speaker of the House new Gingrich
set down with my good friend Mark Levin and he
was asked about the autopen when he was a Speaker
of the House signing legislation and how big of a
deal it was to use the autopen, How seriously was
(24:25):
the autopen taken, and how much was it also protected
from abuse. I want you to hear what new Gingrich
had to say to Levin.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Luke Gingrich question, when you were Speaker of the House,
I bet you took this signature requirement very seriously. I
bet you took the requirement that a president actually be
present when a bill was signed very very seriously. I
know there's a lot of formalities to the fact when
certain bills are brought they're brought in a special way,
they're handed to somebody specifically. There's a whole process set up.
(24:58):
Did you ever think you'd see the day where we're
raising serious questions about a former president whether he signed
these bills or if he was present when the bills
were signed.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Well, we put it that way. Sure, Look, these people
are corrupt, irresponsible, and happy to exploit the nation for
their own game. So given those kind of people, who
knows what they might do? I think it does raise,
as you have brilliantly done in this show today, it
raises a very big question about whether or not these
(25:32):
laws are in fact laws. Remember the founding fathers understood
that you had to have a pretty strict series of
rules or the whole system breaks down into a kind
of corruption which undermines the rule of law. The rule
of law requires rules, and one of those rules is
that the president signs bills. Now he can direct an
(25:54):
auto pen for things that are ceremonial Christmas cards for example,
and ought to be signing these things. And when you
learn that Biden was signing thousands of commutations in the
last few days of his administration, you know he didn't
have a clue what was going on. You know, we
have no idea what the deals were, why those people
(26:14):
were given commutations, or if in fact they were legal.
So I do think there's a profound question here, and
probably the Congress and President Trump should really write some
more restrictive rules about what it takes to get a
bill to actually be a law.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's interesting New Camrich when I went back and looked
at Madisone's notes and looked at some of the other
essays and comments on that they spent a lot of
time on this. They spent a lot of time on
this signature issue. They remembered the Statute of Frauds from
the sixteen hundreds. It was very important to them. And
back then it was this guy is the president. You know,
we didn't have this massive bureaucracy. He's going to sign
(26:54):
these laws. We in Congress were going to spend our
time doing all this and send.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It to him.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
We're concerned at some he might hijacket somebody might sign it.
And there's also this presentment requirement that he needs to
be present. I mean, let me ask you that is
it really asking a president too much to sign the
damn bills or to be present when the bills are signed.
I mean, if he's having difficulty doing that, doesn't that
kind of prove the point?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Well, look, I don't think any reasonable person thinks that
after some point in twenty twenty three, Joe Biden clearly
was incompetent as defined by the twenty fifth Amendment. As
you walked us through. I mean, when you read the
amendment and you read the discussion around the amendment, it's
very clear Biden clearly was incompetent. Sometime I can't say
(27:40):
any given date, but sometime in twenty three it should
have been obvious to every person who was dealing with
him that he was no longer competent to be president.
And I agree with you every one of these cabinet
officers and Vice President Harris failed their constitutional duty and
they should frankly be stuck with that that these are
people who will fully cheated the American people and allowed
(28:03):
a phony presidency in which I'm guessing doctor Jill was
the most important. She became an effect of the acting
president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You listen to the claim there by new Gingridge, and
it's a very interesting one. He's saying that, in essence,
the first Lady was actually the President of the United
States of America, the de facto president.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
She was elected by no one.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And if that is true, then who else was involved
in this cover up or coup, depending on how you
want to describe it. There's also another aspect of the story,
and that is the Biden regime. Right, they're out of office,
but they're still tight. The Biden crime family now is
doing everything they can to change the narrative, which brings
(28:46):
us to the former President Joe Biden. In a New
York Times interview, Biden has now asserted that he quote
personally made every clemency and pardon decision, even though an
auto pen was used to apply us signature on many documents.
To the massive volume involved. Translation, I'm giving you a
really good story, an alibi to why I wasn't signing
(29:09):
it myself, the President said, quote I made every single
one of those. He elaborated that he set the categories
and standards for pardons and commutations and communicated with each
decision to aids who executed the mechanics of signature writing
via auto pen. Again, this is what Joe Biden is
(29:29):
saying to the New York Times.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Biden also defended the practice as legal end quote typical,
noting that many other presents, including Trump, have used auto pins.
He emphasized it was simply a matter of handling quote
a whole lot of people. Responding to critics, Joe Biden
also called allegations of misuse politically motivated distractions, saying, quote
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their liars, they've done so badly, they've lied so consistently,
the best thing they can do is focus on something else.
Biden also mentioned he issued preemptive pardons to his family
members to show them from what he expected would be
politically driven legal attacks, specifically from Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The only people that have gone after people politically and
attacks has been the Democratic Party, who went after Donald Trump.
And that's exactly why they had to give these preempted
pardons out now. Biden's remarks came amid ongoing congressional investigations
by both the House and the Senate Republicans. These inquiries
(30:37):
are well, they're simple. They're examining whether the autopen was
used appropriately or whether Biden or his aides had sufficient
involvement in the decisions. His former White House physician, as
I talked about earlier on the show, Kevin O'Connor invoked
to fit Amendment when called to testify. Now, the Trump
(30:58):
White House, via the Secretary Caroline Levitt, launched its own investigation.
Coordinating with a Justice Department. They reviewed tens of thousands
of documents from NARA and anticipate examining up to a
million more to determine whether Biden retained proper control of
the autopen or succeeded authority to staffers or maybe his wife.
(31:22):
Levitt harshly criticized Biden, calling him the worst, most incompetent,
and senile president, and suggesting that he relinquished executive power
to unelected aids or even family members.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Now, let me also just remind.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You of what the President said in his own words
on the autopen scandal. He's been very clear that he
believes that Joe Biden was not running the country, that
Joe Biden didn't know what executive orders or even laws
may have been signed at the end of his administration,
and certainly didn't know who was getting clemency or pardons
(31:59):
in his last days and hours in office. It's also
interesting that Joe Biden signed his own family's pardons personally,
using his signature, not the autopen, pointing to the fact
that he was so paranoid about the Biden crime family
being protected and covered, but for everyone else, it was
like he wasn't even at the will to even be asleep.
(32:22):
The autopen was being used by countless other individuals, and
who knows how much corruption there was around it. Here's
President Trump in his own words, I mean, you're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
About the autopen.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Look, the autopen, I think is maybe one of the
biggest scandals that we've had in fifty to one hundred years.
This is a tremendous scandal. And I know the people
on the other side of the desk a resolute desk.
Unfortunately he used it before me. But you know, we
have our choice of seven desks were all beautiful, but
(32:56):
I chose the resolute and so did he. Unfortunately. But
the people on the other side of the resolute desk,
I know them, Lisa, the Hall Group, and then no
good is sick people. And I guarantee he knew nothing
about what he was saying. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And that's exactly what this investigation is going to be
all about. The President making it clear they're not backing
down and they are going to investigate it and find
out exactly who was running the country and that person
was clearly not elected by any Americans. Now I asked
for Congress, well, the House and the Senate doing their
(33:39):
own investigations individually. There are going to be a lot
of people that are going to want to answer questions,
or maybe a lot of people that don't want to
answer questions, depending on what your role was within the
Biden regime. As for the former staffers, you can expect
more of them to take the fifth and not say
a word because afraid of incriminating themselves and probably going
(34:03):
to jail. Don't forget share this podcast please with your
family and your friends wherever they are, and I will
see you back here tomorrow.
Democrats doubling down on the idea that Donald Trump has
gone rogue insane in taking over control of police law
enforcement in Washingt d C. Now, to be clear, this
is not something that he can do in other states
or cities without there being some sort of cooperation.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
DC's very different. We all know that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
The media, however, is trying to say that Donald Trump's
about to just take over everywhere and anywhere he wants.
That is not exactly what the President's trying to do
at all. In fact, Donald Trump did say this about
other cities that are paying attention to d C.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
We're going to have a tremendous success in what we're doing.
Other cities are hopefully watching this. They're all watching, just
like everyone's watching here. They're all watching, and maybe they'll
self clean up and maybe they'll self do this and
get rid of the cash list bail thing and all
of the things that caused the problem. I mean, if
(01:00):
you go back, this whole thing with cash list bail
is a disaster. So many problems came that we we
never had before. So they're watching us today, and if
they don't learn their lesson, if they haven't studied us properly,
because we're going to be very successful. I have a
zero doubt about that. It's going to be say, a
question of will would be really fast.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Like the border.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You notice the President clearly is playing chess. Why is
he talking the way he is about all of this.
He's doing it because he's sending a message that it's
going to prove a point that having adequate law enforcement,
backing that law enforcement and allowing them to do their
job is how you clean up a city. And Washington,
d C. Is the nation's capital. It should be the
(01:43):
safest city in all of America. Stephen Miller making also
this point at the White House about how dangerous DC is,
comparing it to Bagdad in Iraq.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The President has been very clear that he's going to
take the action necessary to secure the city of Washington
for the people who live here, for all the American
people and all who visit here is our capital city.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It is more violent than Baghdad.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It is more violent than parts of Ethiopia and parts
of many of the most dangerous places.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
In the world. It's really shocking.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
If you should look at the graph that has been
shown comparing parts of some of the most dangerous field
states in the world. Compared to d C, DC is
more violent, and so he's going to do what's necessary
to make sure our nation's capital is safe for all Americans.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
By the way, fact check it. Go ahead, check and
see if Washington, d C. Is more violent than Baghdad.
The answer will be yes. This is what democrats are
hoping you will not believe, hoping that you will just
look the other way and not see the reality of
exactly what is happening right now now. The President also
(02:49):
making it clear that because the federal government is now
in control of Washington, d C, it also denies DC
their sanctuary city status. Tom Homan saying that on Fox
News Channel, where now this allows for him to work
with Ice and also to work to get illegal immigrant
criminals out of the city.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Quickly, let me ask you about the DC situation, and
does the fact that there's National Guard there Now it's
a sanctuary city like sanctuary cities across the country, but
it's unique in that it has federal control and now
you've got National Guard on the ground side by side
with Ice. Does that combination basically negate the sanctuary city
(03:32):
status in Washington, d C. At least for these thirty
days in terms of what you can do there.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Tom, Yes, I think DC under fire. The control is
now going to be a sanctuary city. We're working with
the police hand in hand. We encounter a criminal illegal
alien that we turned over ice, and that's where should be.
I mean, I'm not saying every illegal alien in DC
is a criminal, but many are. So these are people
won't focus on it. Illegal alien criminal safety threat in
(03:59):
DC is not going to be protected. There's no sanctuary
for these people in the city of DC.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There is no sanctuary for these people in DC.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you look at all of this, And now we're
hearing from the former Capitol Police Chief Stephen Son, who said,
the bigger picture here shows that the media and Democrats
are actually lying. Democrats are trying to convince you that Washington,
d C. Is a very safe place, that there's not
a crime issue, and that crime is falling drastically, and
(04:31):
Donald Trump is just trying to grandstand over what Democrats
have somehow done to make Washington, DC safe. Yes, it's absurd,
but that's what they're trying to sell. Now, the bigger
picture shows Seek's crime is actually on the rise. That's
what the former Capitol Police chief said during an interview today,
the day after President Trump announced he's placing the DC
(04:53):
Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and activating the
National Guard to restore law and order to the nation's capital.
Sun explained that there are several agencies working together to
secure DC and highlighted that Trump is a very very
detailed oriented person, saying, quote, in case people don't know that,
it is not uncommon for him to be driving in
(05:16):
a motor kid and realize, hey, street lights are out,
or look at that, or look at that graffiti and
make a notification on it. This is how detail oriented
the President actually is. So for him to see some
of the crime that's happening in some of the assaults
that are occurring.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And Navy Yard is.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Just six blocks south of the Capitol, short distance from
the White House, it's a big area to see these
gangs of youth kind of taking it over. It doesn't
surprise me that they're now going to pull these federal
resources together and form a task force, explaining, Look, we've
done this before, saying quote, we did this in the
early nineteen nineties when I was with DC Police. We
(05:56):
were able to drive down homicide rates when the chief.
When heir was chief, think that was about twenty ten,
twenty fourteen, we had a homicide rate that was maybe
right around one hundred, one hundred and seventy year. Now
twenty twenty three you got two hundred and seventy four homicides,
so you had a significant increase. He said, this is
(06:17):
the big problem, and this is why the present is
having to do what he's doing now. So when people
talk about, oh, hey, there's a big drop, as the
DC mayor has tried to claim that the number of
homicides is somehow down in twenty four from twenty three
and so therefore everything's fine. That's what the DC narrative
has been pushed by the mayor Bowser. It doesn't add
(06:39):
up with reality, he said, quote so when people talk about,
oh there's a big drop, there's a drop from twenty
three to twenty four, but you look at the overall rate,
it's still significant double the number of murders that we
had in twenty ten. That's what the former police chief
of DC pointed out. Explain that there used to be
a time when the crime really stated in certain neighborhoods.
(07:01):
Now it's everywhere. Now it's all throughout the city. So
they're going to deploy into these areas and really focus
focus on crime, focus on your most violent offenders, your
repeat offenders. He continued, urging officials to zero in on
juvenile crime, which Democrats have in essence, sanction those under
eighteen to do whatever they want. Quote, They've always historically
(07:24):
been very soft on punishment on juvenile crime, and the
concern with it is if you don't begin to address
behavior at a young age, it's just going to get worse.
Emphasizing that the DC homicide rate is five to six
times that of any other major city in the United
States of America, which brings us back to the big
(07:46):
point about why is the mayor of DC fighting this, Well,
it's pretty simple. She hates Donald Trump and she doesn't
want to be seen as someone that actually is a failure.
That's why the DC mayor Bowser is in denial. Trump's
plan to combat crime in our city is quote unsettling
and unprecedented. She said, Well, the Democratic mayor is in
(08:09):
denial about what has happened under her watch in a
crime ridden city, asserting that President Trump's view of the
nation's capitalists quote shaped by his COVID era experience during
his first term, and claiming that crime has already been
robustly addressed. Deeming Trump's actions, as I mentioned, unsettling and unprecedented.
(08:31):
Bowser kicked off the press conference and the positive elements
of DC, repeatedly calling it quote beautiful Washington, DC is
a beautiful city, a magnificent city, possibly saying these words
to try to mock Donald Trump. We're home to seven
hundred thousand Washington Washington residents. We welcome millions of visitors
every year from around our nation, around the world. We
have the nation's premier park system, she claims, fantastic public schools.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The data doesn't back that up, by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And then she says, including a free and row US
pre K program starting at age three. We have a
tremendous public transportation system. She went on to brag, which,
by the way, people are now afraid to use quote.
It's very important to me that for all who live
here and visit here, just know how beautiful our city
is and how proud we are of all the accomplishments here,
(09:19):
reminding listeners of the quote basics, saying quote, we're unique
in other ways as well, though We pay taxes. In fact,
we pay more than most states per capita. We're not
a state. We don't control the DC National Guard, we
don't have siners or full autonomy. Limited home rule gives
the federal government the ability to intrude on our autonomy
(09:41):
in many ways, she said, before delving into Trump's move
to address crime in the city. I've seen this before,
I've said it before, and I'll repeat it. I believe
that President Trump's view of DC's shaped by his COVID
era experience during his first term. And it's true that
those were more challenging times really to some issues. Is
(10:01):
also true that we experienced a crime spike post COVID,
but we worked quickly to put laws in place and
tactics that got violent offenders off our streets and gave
our police officers more tools, which is why we've seen
a huge decrease in crime. So is there actually a
huge decrease in crime? The answer is also no. She's
lying to you, Yet she continues to say, quote because
(10:23):
of those efforts, we've been able to reverse the twenty
twenty three crime spike this year alone, bragging the DC
is at a thirty year violent crime low.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, Yeah, that may be true.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
It's still way more violent than the majority of American cities,
and you're way more likely to be killed there than
even in Baghdad. And that is exactly why Donald Trump said,
I'm taking over. I'm not waiting on you to do
your job you should have done a long time ago.
The nation's capital has been overtaken by violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals,
(10:56):
roathing mobs of wild youth, drugged out many acts, and
homeless people. And we're not going to let it happen anymore,
Trump said during his press conference, yet again putting law
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is democrats biggest fear. Law and order returning state by
state and states now working with the Trump administration and
(13:37):
ICE officials. Specifically, we now have three states that have
signed a new agreement with ICE for quote expanded immigration
enforcement operations. These three states include West Virginia, South Dakota,
and Arkansas, all signing the agreements with the Department of
(14:00):
Own Securities, US Immigration Customs Enforcement to specifically, they say,
ramp up immigration enforcement within their jurisdictions. West Virginia was
the first one. The governor there, Patrick Morsey, announced a
robust collaboration under Section two eight seven G of the
(14:20):
Immigration and Nationality Act. This agreement enlists the West Virginia
State Police, Corrections and Rehabilitation Division and the National Guard
to assist ICE in immigration enforcement. Translation, if you're an
legal immigrant, you don't want to be in West Virginia
right now now. Under this task force, structure, officers can
(14:43):
quote interrogate anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant. Number
two process immigration violations for individuals already rested for other offenses.
Three conduct warrantless arrests if an in individual is seen
and suspected to be a flight risk pending a warrant.
(15:05):
Four serve immigration warrants, administer oas, collect fingerprints and gather evidence.
And five issue immigration detainers and hold individuals in correctional
facilities before transferring them to ICE custy under federal supervision.
You look at what has happened in South Dakota. The
(15:27):
governor there, as part of his quote Operation Prairie Thunder,
a public safety initiative, will now have the South Dakota
Highway Patrols support ICE with the rests announcing it today.
The National Guard assists with the processing and administrative tasks
as well, and the Department of Corrections will help transport detainees,
(15:48):
identify undocumented individuals within state prisons, and parole them into
ICE custody.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You then move to Arkansas.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Governor Sarah Huckabee, said, former White House pre Secretary under
Donald Trump, signing the Defense Against Criminal Illegals Act, which
definitively increases penalties for undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes,
again saying to illegal immigrants, you don't want to be
in Arkansas. It also, with this new agreement, allows sheriffs
(16:20):
to apply for the two to eight to seven G
authority to serve immigration warrants on those already in custody,
and Sarah Uckebee Centers announcing this enables the Arkansas State
Police to stop individuals in public, inquire about immigration status
and potentially arrest suspected undocumented immigrants. Now, if you think
(16:44):
they're doing this lighthearted, you're wrong. For example, in Arkansas,
there is training required, a forty hour online course covering
scope immigration law, civil rights, cross cultural issues, as well
as liability. Doing this in a responsible way. Now you
may be asking what is ICE two eight seven G program. Well,
(17:06):
let me explain to you the broader context of how
this is being used by the Trump administration. The program
enables state and local officers, after ICE provided training, to
carry out certain immigration enforcement duties under ICE supervision. That
is why there's a collaboration here and why they are
(17:26):
having to sign on to the program. Now, as of
August thirteenth, ICE has executed eight hundred and ninety seven
agreements across forty states, including various models such as jail enforcement,
warrant service, and task force operations. The Trump administration has
(17:47):
significantly accelerated these partnerships, growing from around one hundred and
thirty five to over seven hundred agreements in early twenty
twenty five alone.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Of course, the left.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Is going insane, warning that the surge is a risk
to quote civil rights community trust and invites, they say,
racial profiling, even though none of these programs have anything
to do with that. Now, you also may be asking yourself,
why am I not quoting the president right now when
I'm telling you about this initiative, Well, the President clearly
(18:20):
is playing chess on the issue. In fact, the White
House has had no public statement or reaction regarding these
specific agreements with West Virginia, South Dakota, and Arkansas, mainly
because they want this to be clearly seen as state
led that these governors are opting in. And that is
exactly why the administration is being so successful in getting
(18:44):
this done with so many different agreements, because they're not grandstanding.
They're just trying to fight crime, and it's clearly working.
And when you also take a listen to West Virginia's
governor responding to the Trump administration's position on immigration force
and entering into this agreement, and what he says it's
going to do for his state, and also why so
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many other states should get involved.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
We always thought that when you're talking about the Biden
border disorder, which is what occurred for four years, that
the best way to deal with it is to have
a partnership between the states and the federal government. Now
you're seeing that with the Trump administration, which is incredible.
So West Virginia has actually entered into the two to
eighty seven g program and so we're working hand in
(19:30):
hand with ICE to identify illegal aliens and make sure
that they can get deported.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
And this is.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Really important to do because, as President Trump said yesterday,
when you actually remove a lot of these illegal aliens
from the system, you're going to see a reduction in crime.
That there are a number of people we found it
even in West Virginia. Murderers, attempted murder, sexual assaults, all
different types of crime. None of the states need it.
(19:57):
Now we have a partnership with the Trumpet administration and
it's fabulous. I know that I've talked to a Homeland
Security secretary, Christy Nome. I've praised her for her We're
trying to work together with them because it takes states
working with the federal government to make sure that we're
kind of reasserting our position and stopping all the horrific
(20:19):
consequences of what happened with the illegal immigrants coming in.
I know in West Virginia we really felt the impact
of that through the massive amount of death that flowed
from fetnyl that flooded into our state, originally from China,
went through the Mexican drug cartels, made its way into
the US. I think you're seeing a very different and
(20:40):
a much more successful approach, and I'm glad that our
state is a part of that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
One of the most important things that was said there
by the West Virginia governor was how he said West
Virginia had quote become an effective border state due to
the massive FETNOH problem caused by illegal immigrats. The federal
outbreak in West Virginia has been catastrophic, especially on young people.
(21:06):
This is one of the reasons why the governor said
he's so eager to work with ICE because of how
many lives he believes he's going to be able to save. Now,
the National Guard and the State police will have quote
task force authority and that is going to be huge
and going after the drug traffickers. Why, it gives them
the authority to interrogate any person they believe to be
(21:30):
an I legal immigrant as to his right to remain
in the US now under the supervision or direction of
the federal government, meaning ICE agents. Officers will also be
able to process immigration related violations for those arrested for
state or federal offenses. This is going to allow the
(21:52):
governor and his team to actually be able to do
what they need to do. It also allows for them
to have quote warrantless arrests of any illegal immigrant in
the officer's presence or view if that person is believed
to be a flight risk in the interim of obtaining
a warrant. So the governor they are authorizing the state
(22:13):
law enforcement to serve immigration warrants, administer os, and collect
evidence for required alien processing. This will allow for fingerprinting
and suspect interviews to be done. Now, this is also
going to have a huge impact just on the psyche
of illegal immigrants and cartel members in West Virginia because
(22:35):
now they understand that virtually anyone in law enforcement now
can do the job they need to do to find
out who they are and stop them, something that was
not happening under the Biden regime. And that's why the
President's being pretty quiet about this, because it's happening in
real time, and he's letting the governors lead in these states.
(22:57):
It is the traditional August recess. It's happening right now
in Washington, d C. Congress is back in their districts
in theory, tending to business of listening to the constituents.
That doesn't mean there isn't anything going on with the
House Auto Pen probe. In fact, it's uncovering a lot
about the Biden White House. Even as Congress is on
(23:19):
their traditional recess. The House Oversight Committee, i've been told today,
is still investigating the LEDs cover up of former President
Joe Biden's decline. The former president insisting he was responsible
for quote all decisions that came out of the White
House during his time in office, and former staff members
claim they saw no obvious signs of a cognitive decline. Well,
(23:43):
the House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer discussing the committee's
investigation to whether the Biden administration covered up the cognitive
deterioration of the former president. Now, there's also been the
question of precedent. What is the autopen like in the past.
Can you compare how other government officials use the autopen
(24:03):
in contrast to how it was being used when Joe
Biden was in office. Clearly that would help tremendously in
the investigation. Well, former Speaker of the House new Gingrich
set down with my good friend Mark Levin and he
was asked about the autopen when he was a Speaker
of the House signing legislation and how big of a
deal it was to use the autopen, How seriously was
(24:25):
the autopen taken, and how much was it also protected
from abuse. I want you to hear what new Gingrich
had to say to Levin.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Luke Gingrich question, when you were Speaker of the House,
I bet you took this signature requirement very seriously. I
bet you took the requirement that a president actually be
present when a bill was signed very very seriously. I
know there's a lot of formalities to the fact when
certain bills are brought they're brought in a special way,
they're handed to somebody specifically. There's a whole process set up.
(24:58):
Did you ever think you'd see the day where we're
raising serious questions about a former president whether he signed
these bills or if he was present when the bills
were signed.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Well, we put it that way. Sure, Look, these people
are corrupt, irresponsible, and happy to exploit the nation for
their own game. So given those kind of people, who
knows what they might do? I think it does raise,
as you have brilliantly done in this show today, it
raises a very big question about whether or not these
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laws are in fact laws. Remember the founding fathers understood
that you had to have a pretty strict series of
rules or the whole system breaks down into a kind
of corruption which undermines the rule of law. The rule
of law requires rules, and one of those rules is
that the president signs bills. Now he can direct an
(25:54):
auto pen for things that are ceremonial Christmas cards for example,
and ought to be signing these things. And when you
learn that Biden was signing thousands of commutations in the
last few days of his administration, you know he didn't
have a clue what was going on. You know, we
have no idea what the deals were, why those people
(26:14):
were given commutations, or if in fact they were legal.
So I do think there's a profound question here, and
probably the Congress and President Trump should really write some
more restrictive rules about what it takes to get a
bill to actually be a law.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's interesting New Camrich when I went back and looked
at Madisone's notes and looked at some of the other
essays and comments on that they spent a lot of
time on this. They spent a lot of time on
this signature issue. They remembered the Statute of Frauds from
the sixteen hundreds. It was very important to them. And
back then it was this guy is the president. You know,
we didn't have this massive bureaucracy. He's going to sign
(26:54):
these laws. We in Congress were going to spend our
time doing all this and send.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
It to him.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
We're concerned at some he might hijacket somebody might sign it.
And there's also this presentment requirement that he needs to
be present. I mean, let me ask you that is
it really asking a president too much to sign the
damn bills or to be present when the bills are signed.
I mean, if he's having difficulty doing that, doesn't that
kind of prove the point?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Well, look, I don't think any reasonable person thinks that
after some point in twenty twenty three, Joe Biden clearly
was incompetent as defined by the twenty fifth Amendment. As
you walked us through. I mean, when you read the
amendment and you read the discussion around the amendment, it's
very clear Biden clearly was incompetent. Sometime I can't say
(27:40):
any given date, but sometime in twenty three it should
have been obvious to every person who was dealing with
him that he was no longer competent to be president.
And I agree with you every one of these cabinet
officers and Vice President Harris failed their constitutional duty and
they should frankly be stuck with that that these are
people who will fully cheated the American people and allowed
(28:03):
a phony presidency in which I'm guessing doctor Jill was
the most important. She became an effect of the acting
president of the United States.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You listen to the claim there by new Gingridge, and
it's a very interesting one. He's saying that, in essence,
the first Lady was actually the President of the United
States of America, the de facto president.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
She was elected by no one.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
And if that is true, then who else was involved
in this cover up or coup, depending on how you
want to describe it. There's also another aspect of the story,
and that is the Biden regime. Right, they're out of office,
but they're still tight. The Biden crime family now is
doing everything they can to change the narrative, which brings
(28:46):
us to the former President Joe Biden. In a New
York Times interview, Biden has now asserted that he quote
personally made every clemency and pardon decision, even though an
auto pen was used to apply us signature on many documents.
To the massive volume involved. Translation, I'm giving you a
really good story, an alibi to why I wasn't signing
(29:09):
it myself, the President said, quote I made every single
one of those. He elaborated that he set the categories
and standards for pardons and commutations and communicated with each
decision to aids who executed the mechanics of signature writing
via auto pen. Again, this is what Joe Biden is
(29:29):
saying to the New York Times.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Biden also defended the practice as legal end quote typical,
noting that many other presents, including Trump, have used auto pins.
He emphasized it was simply a matter of handling quote
a whole lot of people. Responding to critics, Joe Biden
also called allegations of misuse politically motivated distractions, saying, quote
(29:52):
their liars, they've done so badly, they've lied so consistently,
the best thing they can do is focus on something else.
Biden also mentioned he issued preemptive pardons to his family
members to show them from what he expected would be
politically driven legal attacks, specifically from Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
The only people that have gone after people politically and
attacks has been the Democratic Party, who went after Donald Trump.
And that's exactly why they had to give these preempted
pardons out now. Biden's remarks came amid ongoing congressional investigations
by both the House and the Senate Republicans. These inquiries
(30:37):
are well, they're simple. They're examining whether the autopen was
used appropriately or whether Biden or his aides had sufficient
involvement in the decisions. His former White House physician, as
I talked about earlier on the show, Kevin O'Connor invoked
to fit Amendment when called to testify. Now, the Trump
(30:58):
White House, via the Secretary Caroline Levitt, launched its own investigation.
Coordinating with a Justice Department. They reviewed tens of thousands
of documents from NARA and anticipate examining up to a
million more to determine whether Biden retained proper control of
the autopen or succeeded authority to staffers or maybe his wife.
(31:22):
Levitt harshly criticized Biden, calling him the worst, most incompetent,
and senile president, and suggesting that he relinquished executive power
to unelected aids or even family members.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Now, let me also just remind.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You of what the President said in his own words
on the autopen scandal. He's been very clear that he
believes that Joe Biden was not running the country, that
Joe Biden didn't know what executive orders or even laws
may have been signed at the end of his administration,
and certainly didn't know who was getting clemency or pardons
(31:59):
in his last days and hours in office. It's also
interesting that Joe Biden signed his own family's pardons personally,
using his signature, not the autopen, pointing to the fact
that he was so paranoid about the Biden crime family
being protected and covered, but for everyone else, it was
like he wasn't even at the will to even be asleep.
(32:22):
The autopen was being used by countless other individuals, and
who knows how much corruption there was around it. Here's
President Trump in his own words, I mean, you're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
About the autopen.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Look, the autopen, I think is maybe one of the
biggest scandals that we've had in fifty to one hundred years.
This is a tremendous scandal. And I know the people
on the other side of the desk a resolute desk.
Unfortunately he used it before me. But you know, we
have our choice of seven desks were all beautiful, but
(32:56):
I chose the resolute and so did he. Unfortunately. But
the people on the other side of the resolute desk,
I know them, Lisa, the Hall Group, and then no
good is sick people. And I guarantee he knew nothing
about what he was saying. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
And that's exactly what this investigation is going to be
all about. The President making it clear they're not backing
down and they are going to investigate it and find
out exactly who was running the country and that person
was clearly not elected by any Americans. Now I asked
for Congress, well, the House and the Senate doing their
(33:39):
own investigations individually. There are going to be a lot
of people that are going to want to answer questions,
or maybe a lot of people that don't want to
answer questions, depending on what your role was within the
Biden regime. As for the former staffers, you can expect
more of them to take the fifth and not say
a word because afraid of incriminating themselves and probably going
(34:03):
to jail. Don't forget share this podcast please with your
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