September 3, 2025 • 19 mins
Donald Trump says “enough is enough” and signals he’s ready to send federal forces into Chicago after a Labor Day weekend left over 50 people shot. Buck breaks down why Democrat leadership has failed on crime, the real cost of “community investment” talking points, and why Trump’s approach could change the game. Plus, Buck dives into Trump’s first military strike on a Venezuelan drug boat and what it means for the fight against the cartels.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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wherever you get your podcasts. Donald Trump tells Chicago, we're
going in.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in.
When you lose. Look, I have an obligation. This isn't
a political thing. I have an obligation when we lose.
When twenty people are killed over the last two and
a half weeks, and seventy five are shot with bullets.
So let me tell you a little story about a
place called DC District of Columbia. Right here where we are.
(00:48):
It's now a safe zone.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's right. He has decided that enough is enough after
we had fifty people shot over the Labor Day weekend.
There's a recognition that is growing among the American people
that you can't allow these democrats to be in charge
of the crime situation in these democrats cities or nothing
will ever get better. Trump made it very clear that
(01:12):
it's just a question of when at this point and how.
Now Here's what I find really interesting. There is a
window here. There is an opportunity for Democrats to stop
being insane, just for a moment just long enough that
they could say, you know what, on this issue, in
this moment, we are willing to work with the federal government,
work with federal resources in order to bring our crime
(01:33):
rates way down. It's already working in DC, where the
President has special authority because of DC's unique situation as
what is essentially a federal territory or federal protectorate under
the Constitution and of course an Act of Congress as
well past the Home Rule active. I think it was
nineteen seventy three, so that's quite clear. But in a
(01:54):
place like Chicago, the authority would be different. But that
doesn't mean it can't work. And Trump is saying that
this is a moment where there's a choice to be made,
a choice for Democrats, a choice for the American people
and specifically those who live in Chicago and its environs.
Do you want to actually get on the right side
of this issue. Just because Trump is for it doesn't
(02:16):
mean that you should be against it. Just because this
is something that Republicans have been saying for a long time,
it doesn't mean that Democrats should just reflexively shoot it down.
Yet nonetheless, that's what is going on here. That is
the reality of what we are seeing. And even here
is Governor Pritzker, who obviously wants to run for a president,
(02:40):
which is pretty shocking in and of itself.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd like to ask a question of my own, and
it's when the press should be asking as well. When
did we become a country where it's okay for the
US president to insist on national television that a state
should call him to beg for anything, especially something we
don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity
(03:08):
in this nation that we treat this as normal.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, there are safe areas of the city. I can
tell you something. When I was in Baghdad during the
war in the Green Zone, for the most part, there
were safe areas of that city too, But there were
really unsafe parts of it. There were parts of it
where if you were in the wrong place daylight or
at night, you could end up getting kidnapped and murdered
on videotape. So, yeah, it wasn't a safe place. But
(03:36):
there were people going to work, there were people who
were walking around going to markets and everything else. But
there are car bombs going off. Yeah, sure, in Chicago,
are there areas that are possible or areas that are
generally safe. Of course, there are safe parts of every city,
(03:56):
pretty safe parts, I should say, of every city, even
in Chicago, though, and I don't know Chicago as well
as I know other cities like New York and DC,
which I know like the back of my hand. In Chicago,
the Lincoln Park neighborhood, there are carjackings, there are home
invasions and people getting shot. That does happen. It doesn't
happen frequently, but it does happen. I'll give you a
(04:17):
perfect example. My lovely wife Carrie and I I had
and I know this is kind of a shock to
some people. I had never been to the city of
Chicago three years ago. I had never been once in
my whole life. And so I decided, you know what,
this is crazy, as I'm fond of saying. And I've
been to Baghdad, I've been to Mosul, I've been to
(04:39):
a Bouja. I've been to a lot of places. I
probably and i've been to Vietnam. I probably should go
to Chicago, a great American city. So I decided to go,
and I'm gonna tell you this. We had a great time,
beautiful weather. We went there, it was seventy and those
of you know Chicago know this. It was seventy degrees
the whole weekend. Just crystal clear skies, crispness in the air,
(05:03):
absolutely gorgeous, absolutely beautiful outside, and everybody's in a great mood,
and the food was amazing. In the city is beaut
I'm thinking, this is a great place, and I'm telling
you the truth. I turned to my wife. At the time,
she was just my girlfriend. We weren't even engaged yet,
so that's how long ago this was. I turned to
Carrie and I said, you know, I don't know. Maybe Chicago,
(05:24):
I know the numbers and everything else, but maybe it's
not that bad. We were standing in Millennium Park at
the Silver Bean, you know, that's what I think, the
big Silver Bean thing. And sure enough, we go to
dinner two hours later and she says, you're not gonna
believe this. I just got an alert on my phone
because she was still working at Fox News and she
would get news alerts and she was very up on that.
(05:45):
She goes, I just got an alert on my phone.
There was a shooting, a fatal shooting in Millennium Park.
An hour after we left. Did think about this. There
was a fatal shooting on a beautiful day in the
most touristy and you know, well trod Well walked part
of the whole city and we were just there. I said,
(06:06):
you know, there is a problem here in Chicago. I
know you could say that's anecdotal, but it's an anecdote
added to the reality of a homicide rate that is appalling.
You're in a year have five point fifty six hundred,
I mean, crazy numbers of murders in this city. It's
only two million people. It's not that big. New York
is eight point five million people. Chicago has more murders
(06:29):
than New York and Chicago is a fourth the size.
You know, think about that for a second. So, yeah,
they've got a problem, and Trump wants to help them
fix it, and maybe they should just stop being so insane.
But we should dig in a little more here to
why is it that they refuse Why is it that
they are more willing to have the suffering and misery
(06:50):
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we get to yeah, we talked about what Pritzker said,
and then you have the mayor of Chicago. Now, I
just remember this. There was a decision made by the
(08:17):
uh unfortunately by the voters of Chicago that they were
going to go in the absolute wrong direction when it
came to crime. It didn't have to be this way.
There was another candidate, I forget the guy's name, but
there's another candidate for the mayor's office that was running,
and he was he was a Democrat, but he said, look,
I'm going to clean up the crime. We're going to
(08:39):
back the cops. We're going to stop this this gang violence,
drug violence. And he lost to the worst guy on
crime in the whole city. When you listen to Brandon Johnson,
the mayor of Chicago and the pre mayor before him
was an abject moron as well, I mean abject moron.
Lori Lightfoot maybe the worst mayor in America, which is remarkable,
(09:00):
worse than Portland's mayor. I think it was Wheeler. What
a what a quizzling. That guy was worse than New
York's mayor at the time. To Blasio, I think that
lightfoot law life. What was the worst mayor in America
probably of a city of substantial size, And they made
it even worse with Brandon Johnson. This guy whenever he
and you know, he was just on MSNBC, whenever the
(09:22):
topic of crime comes up, he starts babbling about investment.
What investment? What investment is going to be made tomorrow,
next month, next year by the City of Chicago, by
his mayoral t his administration. That is going to save
a single life, that will stop one person from being shot. Oh,
(09:47):
we're gonna invest in our communities. What does that mean?
It has no meaning. Chicago already has a massive and
bloated bureaucracy and a lot of people working for the
City of Chicago who do very little. Well, what does
it mean? What does investig Oh you're gonna you're gonna
have more expensive public schools, you know, I mean you
look at this stuff and you say to yourself, there
(10:09):
should be so accountability here. You know, what is the
per pupil per pupil cost of a student in Chicago.
I'm doing this in uh, I'm doing this in real time.
I'm gonna tell you this per pupil cost of a
student in Chicago, because I think that when you start
to see they talk about investment, Oh, it's twenty nine
(10:31):
thousand dollars. Twenty nine thousand dollars. Average CPS spending for
twenty twenty four was twenty thousand dollars, but one policy
report said it was twenty nine thousand dollars in twenty
twenty three. But even if it's twenty thousand dollars, they're
spending more than you would spend it. Ninety percent of
the private institutions for you know, Grammar school, high school
(10:53):
in America more than I don't even probably ninety nine percent
twenty thousand dollars a student. What is the investment that's
going to stop when the system is failing to prevent violence,
Ignoring the violence is to become complicit in it. And
that is where the Mayor of Chicago go and all
those who support him, and all those who go along,
this is where they are. It has to stop. Someone
(11:16):
has to step in and do something. Trump is showing
another way. In DC. The numbers are clear. It is
safer in d C now than it was before. And
every time some pundit comes out and goes, oh, I
don't like seeing an armored personnel carrier outside of Union Station.
First of all, I used to live near the armory
(11:36):
on the on the East side of Manhattan and there
were jeeps and armored personnel carries and things, you know,
in the neighborhood. Who gears it's a National Guard out post?
Why does this? Why does this make anybody uncomfortable? You
go into Europe and liberals, democrats, they love Europe. You'll
see if you go to Italy. The Carabinieri. These guys
are basically dressed up like paramilitaries, have got machine guns.
They're all over the place, walk in the streets, and
(11:58):
yeah they're their version of the National police, but they're
armed up like a military guys. They're not walking around
with his pistols. I mean, these guys have have machine
guns and submachine guns, so they're they're not freaking out
about it. So why do we get As I've said,
they deployed the National Guard for two airports for COVID.
What the heck was the National Guard going to do
(12:19):
at an airport when COVID was happening. It was just
to say we're in charge. It was just to say,
this is our response to a virus. But they won't
do it when it comes to gang bangers, they won't
do it when it comes to drug dealers, they won't
do it when it comes to people that are really
harming individuals who might actually pay attention to armed presence
on the streets of good guys. At some point, it's
(12:40):
just malevolent. At some point, the Democrats have crossed over
into a malevolent being a part of the problem when
it comes to crime. They are complicit in it. And
I think that's what what Trump realizes increasingly, and we're
seeing this play out because people say, you know, investment
(13:01):
in our community does mean investment in our communities. You
could spend you could double the budget of the Chicago
public school system. It would not change and murder right
next year guaranteed, guaranteed, and you know it and I
know it. So what is the investment that he's talking about, Oh,
we need you know more what more jobs training? The
people that he should be helping are the people who
(13:22):
already are doing jobs training as in going to jobs
that they have and they don't want to be robbed
and they don't want to be shot, and they don't
want bullets coming through their windows when they're trying to,
you know, just spend time alone or with their families
on the weekends. They just want to be safe in
their own communities. And they are disproportionately black. In the
case of Chicago, they're disproportionately the high crime, low income areas.
(13:45):
They're disproportionately black individuals, and they want to be safe
in their neighborhoods and they should have that right, and
they should have the law enforcement presence and the resources
necessary to provide them with safety so they can go
to school and go to work and live their lives
in peace and security and not have babbling idiocy about
investing in our communities. What does it even keep this crazy?
(14:06):
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(15:34):
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(16:54):
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Speaker 1 (16:56):
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That's going to have an effect that's going to change
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Isn't that what we want? The cartels operate like a
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(17:24):
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Shields High
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. Donald Trump tells Chicago, we're
going in.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well, we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in.
When you lose. Look, I have an obligation. This isn't
a political thing. I have an obligation when we lose.
When twenty people are killed over the last two and
a half weeks, and seventy five are shot with bullets.
So let me tell you a little story about a
place called DC District of Columbia. Right here where we are.
(00:48):
It's now a safe zone.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's right. He has decided that enough is enough after
we had fifty people shot over the Labor Day weekend.
There's a recognition that is growing among the American people
that you can't allow these democrats to be in charge
of the crime situation in these democrats cities or nothing
will ever get better. Trump made it very clear that
(01:12):
it's just a question of when at this point and how.
Now Here's what I find really interesting. There is a
window here. There is an opportunity for Democrats to stop
being insane, just for a moment just long enough that
they could say, you know what, on this issue, in
this moment, we are willing to work with the federal government,
work with federal resources in order to bring our crime
(01:33):
rates way down. It's already working in DC, where the
President has special authority because of DC's unique situation as
what is essentially a federal territory or federal protectorate under
the Constitution and of course an Act of Congress as
well past the Home Rule active. I think it was
nineteen seventy three, so that's quite clear. But in a
(01:54):
place like Chicago, the authority would be different. But that
doesn't mean it can't work. And Trump is saying that
this is a moment where there's a choice to be made,
a choice for Democrats, a choice for the American people
and specifically those who live in Chicago and its environs.
Do you want to actually get on the right side
of this issue. Just because Trump is for it doesn't
(02:16):
mean that you should be against it. Just because this
is something that Republicans have been saying for a long time,
it doesn't mean that Democrats should just reflexively shoot it down.
Yet nonetheless, that's what is going on here. That is
the reality of what we are seeing. And even here
is Governor Pritzker, who obviously wants to run for a president,
(02:40):
which is pretty shocking in and of itself.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd like to ask a question of my own, and
it's when the press should be asking as well. When
did we become a country where it's okay for the
US president to insist on national television that a state
should call him to beg for anything, especially something we
don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity
(03:08):
in this nation that we treat this as normal.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, there are safe areas of the city. I can
tell you something. When I was in Baghdad during the
war in the Green Zone, for the most part, there
were safe areas of that city too, But there were
really unsafe parts of it. There were parts of it
where if you were in the wrong place daylight or
at night, you could end up getting kidnapped and murdered
on videotape. So, yeah, it wasn't a safe place. But
(03:36):
there were people going to work, there were people who
were walking around going to markets and everything else. But
there are car bombs going off. Yeah, sure, in Chicago,
are there areas that are possible or areas that are
generally safe. Of course, there are safe parts of every city,
(03:56):
pretty safe parts, I should say, of every city, even
in Chicago, though, and I don't know Chicago as well
as I know other cities like New York and DC,
which I know like the back of my hand. In Chicago,
the Lincoln Park neighborhood, there are carjackings, there are home
invasions and people getting shot. That does happen. It doesn't
happen frequently, but it does happen. I'll give you a
(04:17):
perfect example. My lovely wife Carrie and I I had
and I know this is kind of a shock to
some people. I had never been to the city of
Chicago three years ago. I had never been once in
my whole life. And so I decided, you know what,
this is crazy, as I'm fond of saying. And I've
been to Baghdad, I've been to Mosul, I've been to
(04:39):
a Bouja. I've been to a lot of places. I
probably and i've been to Vietnam. I probably should go
to Chicago, a great American city. So I decided to go,
and I'm gonna tell you this. We had a great time,
beautiful weather. We went there, it was seventy and those
of you know Chicago know this. It was seventy degrees
the whole weekend. Just crystal clear skies, crispness in the air,
(05:03):
absolutely gorgeous, absolutely beautiful outside, and everybody's in a great mood,
and the food was amazing. In the city is beaut
I'm thinking, this is a great place, and I'm telling
you the truth. I turned to my wife. At the time,
she was just my girlfriend. We weren't even engaged yet,
so that's how long ago this was. I turned to
Carrie and I said, you know, I don't know. Maybe Chicago,
(05:24):
I know the numbers and everything else, but maybe it's
not that bad. We were standing in Millennium Park at
the Silver Bean, you know, that's what I think, the
big Silver Bean thing. And sure enough, we go to
dinner two hours later and she says, you're not gonna
believe this. I just got an alert on my phone
because she was still working at Fox News and she
would get news alerts and she was very up on that.
(05:45):
She goes, I just got an alert on my phone.
There was a shooting, a fatal shooting in Millennium Park.
An hour after we left. Did think about this. There
was a fatal shooting on a beautiful day in the
most touristy and you know, well trod Well walked part
of the whole city and we were just there. I said,
(06:06):
you know, there is a problem here in Chicago. I
know you could say that's anecdotal, but it's an anecdote
added to the reality of a homicide rate that is appalling.
You're in a year have five point fifty six hundred,
I mean, crazy numbers of murders in this city. It's
only two million people. It's not that big. New York
is eight point five million people. Chicago has more murders
(06:29):
than New York and Chicago is a fourth the size.
You know, think about that for a second. So, yeah,
they've got a problem, and Trump wants to help them
fix it, and maybe they should just stop being so insane.
But we should dig in a little more here to
why is it that they refuse Why is it that
they are more willing to have the suffering and misery
(06:50):
of their own people than just to do the obvious thing.
We'll get to that in a second. You know, whatever,
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we get to yeah, we talked about what Pritzker said,
and then you have the mayor of Chicago. Now, I
just remember this. There was a decision made by the
(08:17):
uh unfortunately by the voters of Chicago that they were
going to go in the absolute wrong direction when it
came to crime. It didn't have to be this way.
There was another candidate, I forget the guy's name, but
there's another candidate for the mayor's office that was running,
and he was he was a Democrat, but he said, look,
I'm going to clean up the crime. We're going to
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back the cops. We're going to stop this this gang violence,
drug violence. And he lost to the worst guy on
crime in the whole city. When you listen to Brandon Johnson,
the mayor of Chicago and the pre mayor before him
was an abject moron as well, I mean abject moron.
Lori Lightfoot maybe the worst mayor in America, which is remarkable,
(09:00):
worse than Portland's mayor. I think it was Wheeler. What
a what a quizzling. That guy was worse than New
York's mayor at the time. To Blasio, I think that
lightfoot law life. What was the worst mayor in America
probably of a city of substantial size, And they made
it even worse with Brandon Johnson. This guy whenever he
and you know, he was just on MSNBC, whenever the
(09:22):
topic of crime comes up, he starts babbling about investment.
What investment? What investment is going to be made tomorrow,
next month, next year by the City of Chicago, by
his mayoral t his administration. That is going to save
a single life, that will stop one person from being shot. Oh,
(09:47):
we're gonna invest in our communities. What does that mean?
It has no meaning. Chicago already has a massive and
bloated bureaucracy and a lot of people working for the
City of Chicago who do very little. Well, what does
it mean? What does investig Oh you're gonna you're gonna
have more expensive public schools, you know, I mean you
look at this stuff and you say to yourself, there
(10:09):
should be so accountability here. You know, what is the
per pupil per pupil cost of a student in Chicago.
I'm doing this in uh, I'm doing this in real time.
I'm gonna tell you this per pupil cost of a
student in Chicago, because I think that when you start
to see they talk about investment, Oh, it's twenty nine
(10:31):
thousand dollars. Twenty nine thousand dollars. Average CPS spending for
twenty twenty four was twenty thousand dollars, but one policy
report said it was twenty nine thousand dollars in twenty
twenty three. But even if it's twenty thousand dollars, they're
spending more than you would spend it. Ninety percent of
the private institutions for you know, Grammar school, high school
(10:53):
in America more than I don't even probably ninety nine percent
twenty thousand dollars a student. What is the investment that's
going to stop when the system is failing to prevent violence,
Ignoring the violence is to become complicit in it. And
that is where the Mayor of Chicago go and all
those who support him, and all those who go along,
this is where they are. It has to stop. Someone
(11:16):
has to step in and do something. Trump is showing
another way. In DC. The numbers are clear. It is
safer in d C now than it was before. And
every time some pundit comes out and goes, oh, I
don't like seeing an armored personnel carrier outside of Union Station.
First of all, I used to live near the armory
(11:36):
on the on the East side of Manhattan and there
were jeeps and armored personnel carries and things, you know,
in the neighborhood. Who gears it's a National Guard out post?
Why does this? Why does this make anybody uncomfortable? You
go into Europe and liberals, democrats, they love Europe. You'll
see if you go to Italy. The Carabinieri. These guys
are basically dressed up like paramilitaries, have got machine guns.
They're all over the place, walk in the streets, and
(11:58):
yeah they're their version of the National police, but they're
armed up like a military guys. They're not walking around
with his pistols. I mean, these guys have have machine
guns and submachine guns, so they're they're not freaking out
about it. So why do we get As I've said,
they deployed the National Guard for two airports for COVID.
What the heck was the National Guard going to do
(12:19):
at an airport when COVID was happening. It was just
to say we're in charge. It was just to say,
this is our response to a virus. But they won't
do it when it comes to gang bangers, they won't
do it when it comes to drug dealers, they won't
do it when it comes to people that are really
harming individuals who might actually pay attention to armed presence
on the streets of good guys. At some point, it's
(12:40):
just malevolent. At some point, the Democrats have crossed over
into a malevolent being a part of the problem when
it comes to crime. They are complicit in it. And
I think that's what what Trump realizes increasingly, and we're
seeing this play out because people say, you know, investment
(13:01):
in our community does mean investment in our communities. You
could spend you could double the budget of the Chicago
public school system. It would not change and murder right
next year guaranteed, guaranteed, and you know it and I
know it. So what is the investment that he's talking about, Oh,
we need you know more what more jobs training? The
people that he should be helping are the people who
(13:22):
already are doing jobs training as in going to jobs
that they have and they don't want to be robbed
and they don't want to be shot, and they don't
want bullets coming through their windows when they're trying to,
you know, just spend time alone or with their families
on the weekends. They just want to be safe in
their own communities. And they are disproportionately black. In the
case of Chicago, they're disproportionately the high crime, low income areas.
(13:45):
They're disproportionately black individuals, and they want to be safe
in their neighborhoods and they should have that right, and
they should have the law enforcement presence and the resources
necessary to provide them with safety so they can go
to school and go to work and live their lives
in peace and security and not have babbling idiocy about
investing in our communities. What does it even keep this crazy?
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also very pleased to see the response that is happening
across the country to Trump's moves and what he's doing.
He's winning on this issue, so that's the good news.
Something else that happened that I just wanted to do,
what to mention here, is you have a strike. I mean,
it's pretty remarkable, a strike on a drug boat coming
(15:34):
out of Venezuela. This was after the show, after the
Tuesday radio show finished. This is pretty remarkable. You had
a drug boat that was leaving and it was a
designated narco. Here we go US military. A US military
attacked a vessel from Venezuela and the Caribbean that it
(15:56):
said was carrying illegal drugs, the first known operation of
the Trump administration since the surge of warships to the region.
President Trump, he told the reporters about this one. It's
remarkable what's gone on here.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Are great General head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran,
knocking out potential nuclear power for a long time to come.
I think within a month they would have had it.
We didn't do what we did, but he gave us
(16:32):
a little bit of a briefing and you'll see, and
there's more where that came from. We have a lot
of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a
long time, and we just these came out of Venezuela
and coming out very heavily from Venezuela. A lot of
things are coming out of Venezuela. So we took it
out and you'll get to see that after this, after
(16:54):
this meeting is over.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So, yeah, now we're actually using military force against narco traffickers.
That's going to have an effect that's going to change
the calculation for them. That's going to change the game
for the bad guys, which is isn't that what we want?
Isn't that what we want? The cartels operate like a
paramilitary organization, a transnational, highly funded, extremely ultraviolent criminal entity
(17:24):
that engages in terrorism, and the Venezuelan government is involved
that they are sanctioned for narco trafficking, sanctioned members of
the Venezuelan government. Although up to the very top, all
the way to the very top of the Venezuelan government,
I mean the top top, you have people who are
sanctioned for narco trafficking and they're poisoning Americans. They're killing
(17:44):
Americans with these drugs because they're sending over fentinel. We're
not blowing up ships full of marijuana. They're sending over
fentinyl and they're killing people. So we've now seen a
Trump administration that is going to do something about this,
and I think you're just seeing the beginning of this.
I've been hearing for a while in back channel that
the war against the cartels is going to start looking
a lot more like a war against cartels. If you
(18:06):
have never seen the movie Clear in Present Danger, I
think we're going to be entering into the Trump Aministration's
clear and Present Danger era of the fight against the cartels.
And when you think about almost one hundred thousand Americans
a year dying of drug overdoses, and a lot of
them dying of what as a hot batch or drugs
that are even more lethal than name can realize because
(18:27):
of how they're mixed together, and people don't know what
they're getting and they're getting poisoned. So the Trump administration
is taking this very very seriously, and I think we're
just seeing the beginning of this, and this could get
this could get a lot more intense very quickly. So
I just want to note that for all of you.
But if I could turn the clock back a full year,
you know what I would do. I definitely buy more gold.
Because gold has gone up in value by some forty
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percent for existing gold owners, that's great news. For individuals
not yet invested in gold, it's not too late. Central
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