August 12, 2025 • 22 mins
Washington, D.C., with its record-high murder rates, ranks as one of the most dangerous capitals in the developed world. Yet, Democratic leadership refuses to take the bold actions needed to restore safety. From the impact of BLM-driven policies to weakened law enforcement, Buck exposes how misguided politics are fueling a crime crisis.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Do Democrats as a party
want crime to be high? Want murders to continue to
outpace national capitals around the rest of the world. When
you look at Washington d C, you compare it to London,
(00:33):
you compare it to Paris, you compare it to Mexico City,
you compare it to Tokyo, you compare it to Beijing.
Find me a country with a large population and a
developed economy, and I'll find you a country that's safer
than washing with the capital that's safer than the Washington
d C. It doesn't have to be this way, but
if you listen to Democrats, they seem to want it
(00:54):
to be this way because they won't do the obvious
things that would make things better in DC. Now, this
brings me to the press conference that was just had
a little while ago by the mayor of DC, a
Mayor Bowser, in which she was trying to lay out,
of course, the whole Trump thing here. It's crazy, what's
going on? Well, Trump actually is acting by federalizing law
(01:18):
enforcement in DC. For a set period of time. He's
acting completely within his authority. DC is different than the
powers that the president has in any other place when
it comes to effectively a police power situation d C.
The Home Rule Act of nineteen seventy three makes it
very clear that what Trump is doing here is completely
(01:39):
within the scope of his powers. So Democrats can cry
about this all day, he's allowed to do this, He's
doing it. But then we get to the narrative that
is out there right now and what they're trying to say,
which is DC's not that bad bull crap. I've lived
in DC twice, and let me tell you, DC is
a dangerous city. It is far more dangerous than post Giuliani.
(02:04):
Notice I added that post Giuliani New York City. So
starting really, if you look at by the numbers, if
you look at DC in the early nineties and New
York in the early nineties, I'm actually not sure which one.
I think DC might have had a higher murder rate,
but I have to go check. But certainly post nineteen
ninety eight or so, DC has been a far more
(02:25):
dangerous city. And it's just an abomination. This is our
nation's capital. People should be able to walk the streets
of DC. Think of the law enforcement that you have
in DC, not just Metro Police, which is their local
police department. You have a greater concentration of federal law
enforcement agencies, people who work for the government with guns
(02:47):
to enforce the law in DC than anywhere else in
the country. And yet we have a murder rate that
in twenty twenty three was setting a record for the
twenty first century for DC. That's just a couple of
years ago. Oh but now they compare the murder rate
to what it was at its worst time. Why was
it here? You know what? Here? Here is Mayor Bowser
(03:09):
of DC. She trying to do a little bit of
pr cleanup for what's going on in her city.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I believe that the President's view of DC is shaped
by his COVID era experience during his first term, and
it is true that those were more challenging times related
to some issues. It is also true that we experienced
a crime spike post COVID, but we work quickly to
(03:42):
put laws in place and tactics that got violent offenders
off her streets and gave our police officers more tools,
which is why we have seen a huge decrease in
crime because of those efforts.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, so she's picking the COVID experience of Trump here
in saying, that's what Trump thinks of when he looks
at when he looks at DC. Understand that it was
bad before COVID, and understand that the Democrats told us
when the crime rate was spiraling out of control during
COVID that it was because of COVID. Oh, what we
(04:22):
found is it was actually worse when COVID lockdowns and
all that ended. And why because of BLM Like BLM plaza.
Remember when the City of Washington, DC and people like
Mayor Bowser supported this, painted the BLM mural on the street.
BLM caused the crime spike. BLM the narrative that cops
(04:45):
are to blame and that the black community is unfairly
in a racist fashion oppressed by police systematically, which is
not true. It's just not true. They can tell tell
you this as much as they want. People can make
this claim. The data the facts do not back this up.
But that narrative resulted in emboldened criminals and pullbacks from
(05:08):
law enforcement who no longer had the politic backing to
do their jobs. So called Ferguson effect, Heather MacDonald coining
the phrase, and things got worse all over the place.
So we're still trying to climb out from the whole
of violent crime that BLM put countless cities in America in.
But now they're trying to say, well, it's better than
(05:28):
it was. Then, hold on, that was that was Biden voters.
Those are Democrats, Democrat politicians, Democrat police commissions, Democrat mayors
who were all supportive of BLM. So BLM created this
huge crime spike. Now we're supposed to congratulate people because
it's not as bad as their political party and their
ideology of BLM made it for a period of time.
(05:51):
This is madness. I noticed how she says challenging time
related to some issues. The issue was BLM. The issue
was the race riots happening on streets across America. That's
what the issue was, and that's why DC had under
Biden a huge crime spike. I think it got almost
three hundred murders in a city with less than I
(06:12):
think it was about five hundred and fifty thousand people.
Almost three hundred murders. Think about that for a moment,
all right, you know, New York City is more than
ten times the size of DC. That would be over
three thousand murders if it was in New York City.
That's what DC had in twenty twenty three. Philadelphia. Not
to get too far Afields in the discussion, Philadelphia had,
(06:34):
I think it was almost seven hundred murders a couple
of years back. Another Democrat precinct Soros prosecutors. The experiment
has been run. The Democrats are wrong on all of this.
They make it all worse. Police cops, law enforcement. They're
not racist, they're just enforcing the law. And the less
they enforce the law, the worse it is for all people,
(06:55):
and particularly for black and Hispanic people who live in
high crime areas, because they just want to live their
lives like all the rest of us do. And they,
you know, are the vast majority of the population and
even the highest crime areas, and yet Democrats will throw
them under the bus in the name of being anti racism.
They don't want cops to do their jobs. They don't
(07:17):
want cops to go after the criminal element that live
in those communities, that are undermining those communities. It's just
I think we were all fed up. We've all had enough,
all had enough of their lives, all had enough of
the garbage that these Democrats view on this. They're pro crime.
I don't know what else you can say. They're pro crime.
None of their anti crime policies, none of them. We're
(07:37):
going to bring things down that unless they're willing to
have more cops, more rests, more incarceration. Nothing else does anything,
Nothing else works, and the things that they are pretending
will work, no cash bail. That just makes everything worse.
This is what we have learned. And I'll get back
into Mayor Bowser here more of this press conference in
(07:59):
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you go. Here's back to this Mayor Bowser saying they're
at a thirty year low for crime this year.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Crime isn't just down from twenty twenty three, it's also
down from twenty nineteen before a pandemic. And we're at
a thirty year violent crime low.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, thirty year low compared to what as I said,
and also violent crime, how about just murders. Let's look
at this for a second, shall we. Let's take a moment,
because she's saying violent crime is at a thirty year low, Well,
what about just murders in Washington, d C. If you
were to look at those numbers, you would have a
(09:38):
very different feeling about what Mayor Bowser is saying here,
because murders in d C by year shows you that
what she is saying is a clear distraction or clear
obfuscation of the reality. Okay, one hundred and eighty seven
(09:59):
and twenty twenty four is what they had. Two hundred
and seventy four and twenty twenty three, two hundred and
three and twenty twenty two. You go back, you say,
hold hold on a second sides. In twenty fourteen the
number was one hundred and five, one hundred and five,
and twenty eleven the number was one hundred and eight.
And now she's proud that the murder that the violent
(10:23):
crime rates the lowest has been in thirty Look at
the homicide rate. She's lying, this is nonsense. But you
can't hide dead bodies. You can say whatever you want
about assaults, are they reported? Do we know or are
we prosecuting? You can't hide dead bodies. People know when
there's a dead body. And that's a stat And the
homicide trend shows that this city, and I'm looking at
(10:45):
DC's own crime statistics, that this city is not at
some thirty year violent crime. This is absurd, absurd, absurd.
You want to tell me the mayor of DC is
making this claim that in twenty twenty four there were
one hundred and eighty seven murders. In twenty fourteen, ten
years before that there were one hundred and five murders.
(11:05):
So you're talking about a eighty percent increase in murders
over ten years, but it's the lowest violent crime. You
could have eighty percent more murders, but the lowest crime
rate in thirty years. Bull bull lying, They are lying
to What else are they gonna do? Admit that we're
right about everything. They're wrong about everything. The Democrats don't
know what they're doing on crime, or actually maybe they do.
(11:28):
Maybe they just think that society needs to suffer. We
all need to suffer more.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
This is a way that we can, you know, pay
for our sins, pay for the sins of this country's
racist past or or or present. Is that we all
have to suffer as a society with more crime like
this is this is a way. It's like purifying America
because we have more murders, more assaults, more of all.
I mean, that's an insane ideology. I think it's increasing
(11:52):
with the Democrats believe we all need to suffer. We
haven't suffered enough Otherwise, how do you explain what they're doing.
You see the the things that are being said by
Democrats about this, including members of Congress and others are DC.
There's no reason for this. There's the DC's safeties. They
are living in an alternate universe. I've lived in DC.
(12:15):
Stuff happens in DC in the nicest neighborhoods. It doesn't
happen in other places in other cities. I mean, doesn't
happen in New York in the nicest neighborhoods. People will
be stabbed, murdered, raped broad daylight. I mean the stuff
that happens in DC and doesn't even get reported on.
I just shared a thread on x before about the
(12:36):
Mansion murders, which are horrifying beyond words. I actually no
reporter who reported on it at the time, local reporter,
not national, who was traumatized by just reporting on it,
by finding out all the details and going to the
scene of the crime and everything. They This was a
man who was an immigrant to this country, a black
(12:57):
man who is an immigrant to America from Guyana, who kidnapped,
effectively home invasion kidnapped and then tied up with duct tape.
Four people, a husband and wife, their ten year old son,
and they're made a woman and proceeded to torture the
sun with a blow torch to get money out of
(13:18):
the parents, cash out of the parents that they were
going to withdraw from a bank somewhere, and accomplice brought
the money to this guy, tortured some of the blow
torch and then bludgeoned everyone to death and stabbed everybody
to death while they were tied up. A monster who
should have been executed, Absolutely should have been executed. He's
serving multiple life sentences. But I point this out because
that was ten years ago in Washington, d C. When
(13:40):
the murder rate was a lot lower than it is now.
And how many of you even know that story. Can
you imagine if the demographic realities of that story were different,
You know, I'm not think about that for a second.
Kidnaps a whole family in their home in a mansion,
the nicest part of the nicest part of the whole city,
richest part of the whole city, Kidnaps people in their
(14:00):
own home, tortures with a blowtorch, mutilates, murders four people,
burns the house down afterwards, try to cover it up,
lights the whole place on fire. And yet most of
you have never I bet almost none of you unless
you live in DC. Maybe you remember that. And again
I bring that up because what a horrible story. And
(14:21):
they still think that there were accomplices who got away,
I might add, the police do they never got them.
And beyond that, that was when DC was safer than
it is now by the numbers. So stuff like that
can happen in DC. You don't even hear about it national.
Why wasn't that national news? Oh okay, we can take
some guesses. We're sick of this. I'm sick of it.
(14:42):
You're sick of it. I don't want this. It's because
it's not just about DC. And that's what Trump realizes.
This is about cities all across America. This is about
the same thing we run into over and over again
with these lunatic Democrats, and they're pandering on race issues,
they're pandering on how we can enforce the law. That's bad.
(15:03):
As I've said, And you know, I know Clay likes
this argument because I've been making it on radio and
he's been making a radio for quite some time now.
Crime is overwhelming violent violent crime is overwhelmingly a male
dominated reality, meaning it's men who do it. Men. Men
go to prison at ten times the rate of women
for violent crimes. Does that mean violent crime enforcement is
(15:26):
anti man? It does not. It just means that's who's
committing the crimes. That should be our approach to crime
and law enforcement in every respect us on violent crimes
all across the country. You do it, you pay the price.
That's it doesn't matter, what doesn't matter what the numbers show.
You don't change based on all. But we need, you know,
we need to find more. We need to find more
Pacific Islanders. We need to find more Eskimos who are
(15:47):
committing crimes. No sorry, whoever's committing the crimes does the
time gets punished. That's it. And then that brings me
to the role that of course prosecutors having this we'll
get to that in a second.
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now we get to Mayor Bowser, who also seems to
not understand the Constitution, or the laws, or very much
at all about the city that she is in charge of.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Speak for all Americans. We don't believe or believe it's
legal to use the American military against American citizens on
American soil. I'm not a lawyer, so, but I think
that's a fairly why we held fact.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, it's not about deploying the military to just attack
people on the streets. It's about using the National Guard
to assist with law enforcement tasks as necessary in an
emergency situation, which President Trump has declared now right now
he hasn't necessarily deployed National Guard. That may happen, But
this is about stopping gang members from shooting people. Wote
(17:35):
who is going to be negatively affected by this other
than people that we want to be negatively affected, which
is criminals. Who do we think is going to be
targeted here by this law enforcement surge? And keep in
mind all these federal agencies. I have to remind people
of this. All these federal agencies, a lot of them
have jurisdiction, They just don't necessarily focus on these crimes
too busy chasing January sixth individuals like the FBI was.
(17:59):
But anything that involves drugs, interstate commerce, gang activity, selling
drugs across state lines, moving guns across state lines, it's
all federal. It's all federal and can be federally prosecuted,
which is so important because there's not the same. Uh,
there's not the same. First of all, you don't have
parole in the federal system, and there isn't the same
(18:20):
ability for the Democrats in DC to subvert the justice system.
Because Judge Jeanine is the US Attorney for the District
of Columbia. That's right, Judge Jeanine, and she is sick
and tired of this nonsense. She's gonna put bad people
who hurt people away. Remember we're talking about violent crimes here.
(18:41):
They're gonna make it sound like, oh, but you know
this is gonna be it's like unpaid parking tickets, and
they're just gonna lie about this stuff. No, if you've
pulled a gun on somebody and said I'm gonna kill
you unless you give me money, I think you deserve
a long time in a cell. If you've shot somebody
and haven't killed them, but you've shot somebody in the
course that robbery, I think you need decades in a cell.
If you've murdered somebody, I think you should go to
(19:02):
prison for the rest of your life or even be executed.
That's the way this should go. That's the way that
a serious civilization, is serious society would treat these things.
And this notion that if you're sixteen or seventeen you
can't be held responsible for heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Run.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
We're not talking about somebody who's caught you know, smoking
a joint somewhere. That's not the problem in DC. No
one's going to prison for that. No one's even talking
about that, right. Yeah. There are some things that you
can do when you're sixteen or seventeen that we all understand,
you know, shouldn't be treated as a big as big
a deal as if you were an adult. People make mistakes, fine,
you know, a little shoplifting when you're sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, okay,
(19:41):
you know it's embarrassing. You know, it should be cleaned
off your record at some point if you don't get
any more trouble in a few years. Whatever it is,
you pull a gun on somebody, you're a part of
a gang, assault in the course of stealing a vehicle. No,
you should do real time, long time, long time in
prison for that, because you're not you can't be trusted
(20:02):
to be safe in society. You're a barbarian. You know
this this thing of actually people join the military at seventeen,
that happens with some regularity, joined the military at seventeen,
And the fact of the matter is this cohort of
youth that are fourteen to fifteen that are doing serious
(20:23):
crimes knowing that they can't really be touched by the
law is a huge problem in DC. This is why
big Balls. I forget the guy's actual name, but that
was his his online code name, if you will. The
guy who worked for Dose who got attacked, who was
breaking up a It was a gang of youths, teenagers
who were trying to do a carjacking. A carjack somebody,
when you're a teenager try to steal their car. It's
(20:46):
maddening and we're tired of it. And the Democrats they
can say whatever they want. They can sling the insults,
they can say, oh, it's horrible, all that's racist, they
can make whatever claims they want. We're done. We're done
with this. Trump is done with it. Republicans are done
with it. All right, thinking people, even I think some
Democrats realize that this is just it's just madness. It
(21:06):
doesn't have to be this way. It is a choice.
Democrats choose to allow this crime to exist the way
that it does, to persist the way that it does.
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You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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wherever you get your podcasts. Do Democrats as a party
want crime to be high? Want murders to continue to
outpace national capitals around the rest of the world. When
you look at Washington d C, you compare it to London,
(00:33):
you compare it to Paris, you compare it to Mexico City,
you compare it to Tokyo, you compare it to Beijing.
Find me a country with a large population and a
developed economy, and I'll find you a country that's safer
than washing with the capital that's safer than the Washington
d C. It doesn't have to be this way, but
if you listen to Democrats, they seem to want it
(00:54):
to be this way because they won't do the obvious
things that would make things better in DC. Now, this
brings me to the press conference that was just had
a little while ago by the mayor of DC, a
Mayor Bowser, in which she was trying to lay out,
of course, the whole Trump thing here. It's crazy, what's
going on? Well, Trump actually is acting by federalizing law
(01:18):
enforcement in DC. For a set period of time. He's
acting completely within his authority. DC is different than the
powers that the president has in any other place when
it comes to effectively a police power situation d C.
The Home Rule Act of nineteen seventy three makes it
very clear that what Trump is doing here is completely
(01:39):
within the scope of his powers. So Democrats can cry
about this all day, he's allowed to do this, He's
doing it. But then we get to the narrative that
is out there right now and what they're trying to say,
which is DC's not that bad bull crap. I've lived
in DC twice, and let me tell you, DC is
a dangerous city. It is far more dangerous than post Giuliani.
(02:04):
Notice I added that post Giuliani New York City. So
starting really, if you look at by the numbers, if
you look at DC in the early nineties and New
York in the early nineties, I'm actually not sure which one.
I think DC might have had a higher murder rate,
but I have to go check. But certainly post nineteen
ninety eight or so, DC has been a far more
(02:25):
dangerous city. And it's just an abomination. This is our
nation's capital. People should be able to walk the streets
of DC. Think of the law enforcement that you have
in DC, not just Metro Police, which is their local
police department. You have a greater concentration of federal law
enforcement agencies, people who work for the government with guns
(02:47):
to enforce the law in DC than anywhere else in
the country. And yet we have a murder rate that
in twenty twenty three was setting a record for the
twenty first century for DC. That's just a couple of
years ago. Oh but now they compare the murder rate
to what it was at its worst time. Why was
it here? You know what? Here? Here is Mayor Bowser
(03:09):
of DC. She trying to do a little bit of
pr cleanup for what's going on in her city.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I believe that the President's view of DC is shaped
by his COVID era experience during his first term, and
it is true that those were more challenging times related
to some issues. It is also true that we experienced
a crime spike post COVID, but we work quickly to
(03:42):
put laws in place and tactics that got violent offenders
off her streets and gave our police officers more tools,
which is why we have seen a huge decrease in
crime because of those efforts.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, so she's picking the COVID experience of Trump here
in saying, that's what Trump thinks of when he looks
at when he looks at DC. Understand that it was
bad before COVID, and understand that the Democrats told us
when the crime rate was spiraling out of control during
COVID that it was because of COVID. Oh, what we
(04:22):
found is it was actually worse when COVID lockdowns and
all that ended. And why because of BLM Like BLM plaza.
Remember when the City of Washington, DC and people like
Mayor Bowser supported this, painted the BLM mural on the street.
BLM caused the crime spike. BLM the narrative that cops
(04:45):
are to blame and that the black community is unfairly
in a racist fashion oppressed by police systematically, which is
not true. It's just not true. They can tell tell
you this as much as they want. People can make
this claim. The data the facts do not back this up.
But that narrative resulted in emboldened criminals and pullbacks from
(05:08):
law enforcement who no longer had the politic backing to
do their jobs. So called Ferguson effect, Heather MacDonald coining
the phrase, and things got worse all over the place.
So we're still trying to climb out from the whole
of violent crime that BLM put countless cities in America in.
But now they're trying to say, well, it's better than
(05:28):
it was. Then, hold on, that was that was Biden voters.
Those are Democrats, Democrat politicians, Democrat police commissions, Democrat mayors
who were all supportive of BLM. So BLM created this
huge crime spike. Now we're supposed to congratulate people because
it's not as bad as their political party and their
ideology of BLM made it for a period of time.
(05:51):
This is madness. I noticed how she says challenging time
related to some issues. The issue was BLM. The issue
was the race riots happening on streets across America. That's
what the issue was, and that's why DC had under
Biden a huge crime spike. I think it got almost
three hundred murders in a city with less than I
(06:12):
think it was about five hundred and fifty thousand people.
Almost three hundred murders. Think about that for a moment,
all right, you know, New York City is more than
ten times the size of DC. That would be over
three thousand murders if it was in New York City.
That's what DC had in twenty twenty three. Philadelphia. Not
to get too far Afields in the discussion, Philadelphia had,
(06:34):
I think it was almost seven hundred murders a couple
of years back. Another Democrat precinct Soros prosecutors. The experiment
has been run. The Democrats are wrong on all of this.
They make it all worse. Police cops, law enforcement. They're
not racist, they're just enforcing the law. And the less
they enforce the law, the worse it is for all people,
(06:55):
and particularly for black and Hispanic people who live in
high crime areas, because they just want to live their
lives like all the rest of us do. And they,
you know, are the vast majority of the population and
even the highest crime areas, and yet Democrats will throw
them under the bus in the name of being anti racism.
They don't want cops to do their jobs. They don't
(07:17):
want cops to go after the criminal element that live
in those communities, that are undermining those communities. It's just
I think we were all fed up. We've all had enough,
all had enough of their lives, all had enough of
the garbage that these Democrats view on this. They're pro crime.
I don't know what else you can say. They're pro crime.
None of their anti crime policies, none of them. We're
(07:37):
going to bring things down that unless they're willing to
have more cops, more rests, more incarceration. Nothing else does anything,
Nothing else works, and the things that they are pretending
will work, no cash bail. That just makes everything worse.
This is what we have learned. And I'll get back
into Mayor Bowser here more of this press conference in
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you go. Here's back to this Mayor Bowser saying they're
at a thirty year low for crime this year.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Crime isn't just down from twenty twenty three, it's also
down from twenty nineteen before a pandemic. And we're at
a thirty year violent crime low.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, thirty year low compared to what as I said,
and also violent crime, how about just murders. Let's look
at this for a second, shall we. Let's take a moment,
because she's saying violent crime is at a thirty year low, Well,
what about just murders in Washington, d C. If you
were to look at those numbers, you would have a
(09:38):
very different feeling about what Mayor Bowser is saying here,
because murders in d C by year shows you that
what she is saying is a clear distraction or clear
obfuscation of the reality. Okay, one hundred and eighty seven
(09:59):
and twenty twenty four is what they had. Two hundred
and seventy four and twenty twenty three, two hundred and
three and twenty twenty two. You go back, you say,
hold hold on a second sides. In twenty fourteen the
number was one hundred and five, one hundred and five,
and twenty eleven the number was one hundred and eight.
And now she's proud that the murder that the violent
(10:23):
crime rates the lowest has been in thirty Look at
the homicide rate. She's lying, this is nonsense. But you
can't hide dead bodies. You can say whatever you want
about assaults, are they reported? Do we know or are
we prosecuting? You can't hide dead bodies. People know when
there's a dead body. And that's a stat And the
homicide trend shows that this city, and I'm looking at
(10:45):
DC's own crime statistics, that this city is not at
some thirty year violent crime. This is absurd, absurd, absurd.
You want to tell me the mayor of DC is
making this claim that in twenty twenty four there were
one hundred and eighty seven murders. In twenty fourteen, ten
years before that there were one hundred and five murders.
(11:05):
So you're talking about a eighty percent increase in murders
over ten years, but it's the lowest violent crime. You
could have eighty percent more murders, but the lowest crime
rate in thirty years. Bull bull lying, They are lying
to What else are they gonna do? Admit that we're
right about everything. They're wrong about everything. The Democrats don't
know what they're doing on crime, or actually maybe they do.
(11:28):
Maybe they just think that society needs to suffer. We
all need to suffer more.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
This is a way that we can, you know, pay
for our sins, pay for the sins of this country's
racist past or or or present. Is that we all
have to suffer as a society with more crime like
this is this is a way. It's like purifying America
because we have more murders, more assaults, more of all.
I mean, that's an insane ideology. I think it's increasing
(11:52):
with the Democrats believe we all need to suffer. We
haven't suffered enough Otherwise, how do you explain what they're doing.
You see the the things that are being said by
Democrats about this, including members of Congress and others are DC.
There's no reason for this. There's the DC's safeties. They
are living in an alternate universe. I've lived in DC.
(12:15):
Stuff happens in DC in the nicest neighborhoods. It doesn't
happen in other places in other cities. I mean, doesn't
happen in New York in the nicest neighborhoods. People will
be stabbed, murdered, raped broad daylight. I mean the stuff
that happens in DC and doesn't even get reported on.
I just shared a thread on x before about the
(12:36):
Mansion murders, which are horrifying beyond words. I actually no
reporter who reported on it at the time, local reporter,
not national, who was traumatized by just reporting on it,
by finding out all the details and going to the
scene of the crime and everything. They This was a
man who was an immigrant to this country, a black
(12:57):
man who is an immigrant to America from Guyana, who kidnapped,
effectively home invasion kidnapped and then tied up with duct tape.
Four people, a husband and wife, their ten year old son,
and they're made a woman and proceeded to torture the
sun with a blow torch to get money out of
(13:18):
the parents, cash out of the parents that they were
going to withdraw from a bank somewhere, and accomplice brought
the money to this guy, tortured some of the blow
torch and then bludgeoned everyone to death and stabbed everybody
to death while they were tied up. A monster who
should have been executed, Absolutely should have been executed. He's
serving multiple life sentences. But I point this out because
that was ten years ago in Washington, d C. When
(13:40):
the murder rate was a lot lower than it is now.
And how many of you even know that story. Can
you imagine if the demographic realities of that story were different,
You know, I'm not think about that for a second.
Kidnaps a whole family in their home in a mansion,
the nicest part of the nicest part of the whole city,
richest part of the whole city, Kidnaps people in their
(14:00):
own home, tortures with a blowtorch, mutilates, murders four people,
burns the house down afterwards, try to cover it up,
lights the whole place on fire. And yet most of
you have never I bet almost none of you unless
you live in DC. Maybe you remember that. And again
I bring that up because what a horrible story. And
(14:21):
they still think that there were accomplices who got away,
I might add, the police do they never got them.
And beyond that, that was when DC was safer than
it is now by the numbers. So stuff like that
can happen in DC. You don't even hear about it national.
Why wasn't that national news? Oh okay, we can take
some guesses. We're sick of this. I'm sick of it.
(14:42):
You're sick of it. I don't want this. It's because
it's not just about DC. And that's what Trump realizes.
This is about cities all across America. This is about
the same thing we run into over and over again
with these lunatic Democrats, and they're pandering on race issues,
they're pandering on how we can enforce the law. That's bad.
(15:03):
As I've said, And you know, I know Clay likes
this argument because I've been making it on radio and
he's been making a radio for quite some time now.
Crime is overwhelming violent violent crime is overwhelmingly a male
dominated reality, meaning it's men who do it. Men. Men
go to prison at ten times the rate of women
for violent crimes. Does that mean violent crime enforcement is
(15:26):
anti man? It does not. It just means that's who's
committing the crimes. That should be our approach to crime
and law enforcement in every respect us on violent crimes
all across the country. You do it, you pay the price.
That's it doesn't matter, what doesn't matter what the numbers show.
You don't change based on all. But we need, you know,
we need to find more. We need to find more
Pacific Islanders. We need to find more Eskimos who are
(15:47):
committing crimes. No sorry, whoever's committing the crimes does the
time gets punished. That's it. And then that brings me
to the role that of course prosecutors having this we'll
get to that in a second.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
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now we get to Mayor Bowser, who also seems to
not understand the Constitution, or the laws, or very much
at all about the city that she is in charge of.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Speak for all Americans. We don't believe or believe it's
legal to use the American military against American citizens on
American soil. I'm not a lawyer, so, but I think
that's a fairly why we held fact.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, it's not about deploying the military to just attack
people on the streets. It's about using the National Guard
to assist with law enforcement tasks as necessary in an
emergency situation, which President Trump has declared now right now
he hasn't necessarily deployed National Guard. That may happen, But
this is about stopping gang members from shooting people. Wote
(17:35):
who is going to be negatively affected by this other
than people that we want to be negatively affected, which
is criminals. Who do we think is going to be
targeted here by this law enforcement surge? And keep in
mind all these federal agencies. I have to remind people
of this. All these federal agencies, a lot of them
have jurisdiction, They just don't necessarily focus on these crimes
too busy chasing January sixth individuals like the FBI was.
(17:59):
But anything that involves drugs, interstate commerce, gang activity, selling
drugs across state lines, moving guns across state lines, it's
all federal. It's all federal and can be federally prosecuted,
which is so important because there's not the same. Uh,
there's not the same. First of all, you don't have
parole in the federal system, and there isn't the same
(18:20):
ability for the Democrats in DC to subvert the justice system.
Because Judge Jeanine is the US Attorney for the District
of Columbia. That's right, Judge Jeanine, and she is sick
and tired of this nonsense. She's gonna put bad people
who hurt people away. Remember we're talking about violent crimes here.
(18:41):
They're gonna make it sound like, oh, but you know
this is gonna be it's like unpaid parking tickets, and
they're just gonna lie about this stuff. No, if you've
pulled a gun on somebody and said I'm gonna kill
you unless you give me money, I think you deserve
a long time in a cell. If you've shot somebody
and haven't killed them, but you've shot somebody in the
course that robbery, I think you need decades in a cell.
If you've murdered somebody, I think you should go to
(19:02):
prison for the rest of your life or even be executed.
That's the way this should go. That's the way that
a serious civilization, is serious society would treat these things.
And this notion that if you're sixteen or seventeen you
can't be held responsible for heinous crimes.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Run.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
We're not talking about somebody who's caught you know, smoking
a joint somewhere. That's not the problem in DC. No
one's going to prison for that. No one's even talking
about that, right. Yeah. There are some things that you
can do when you're sixteen or seventeen that we all understand,
you know, shouldn't be treated as a big as big
a deal as if you were an adult. People make mistakes, fine,
you know, a little shoplifting when you're sixteen or seventeen. Yeah, okay,
(19:41):
you know it's embarrassing. You know, it should be cleaned
off your record at some point if you don't get
any more trouble in a few years. Whatever it is,
you pull a gun on somebody, you're a part of
a gang, assault in the course of stealing a vehicle. No,
you should do real time, long time, long time in
prison for that, because you're not you can't be trusted
(20:02):
to be safe in society. You're a barbarian. You know
this this thing of actually people join the military at seventeen,
that happens with some regularity, joined the military at seventeen,
And the fact of the matter is this cohort of
youth that are fourteen to fifteen that are doing serious
(20:23):
crimes knowing that they can't really be touched by the
law is a huge problem in DC. This is why
big Balls. I forget the guy's actual name, but that
was his his online code name, if you will. The
guy who worked for Dose who got attacked, who was
breaking up a It was a gang of youths, teenagers
who were trying to do a carjacking. A carjack somebody,
when you're a teenager try to steal their car. It's
(20:46):
maddening and we're tired of it. And the Democrats they
can say whatever they want. They can sling the insults,
they can say, oh, it's horrible, all that's racist, they
can make whatever claims they want. We're done. We're done
with this. Trump is done with it. Republicans are done
with it. All right, thinking people, even I think some
Democrats realize that this is just it's just madness. It
(21:06):
doesn't have to be this way. It is a choice.
Democrats choose to allow this crime to exist the way
that it does, to persist the way that it does.
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