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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Democrats are between a rock and a hard place if
by saying there is no crime, they turn off voters
who are living with the crime and believe they're lying
eyes as opposed to the Democrat talking points. People like
Iris Tao. She's a White House correspondent and she dropped
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by the cabinet meeting with the President last week to
thank him for making DC safer cut one twenty one
please Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And you did refuse to give it, which will probably
maybe somebody would say that was not the right decision, right,
but you refuse, but I understand that so so and
then he hit you real hard. It's really amazing that
you weren't shot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That was I'm very blessed, and that's why having this
opportunity to stand here to share my story today. One,
I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to still
survive to this day, but also to miss the President.
Thank you for now making for us, for our families,
for my parents on my behalf of my parents and
now my my baby on the way.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Thanky so much.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's that's a nice moment, I have to say. And
there was this, there was a Twitter video, an ex
video put up by a young DC woman who was saying,
you guys don't know how big a deal this is.
Cleaning up the city cut one twenty two, please Mike.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
President Trump has not even had control over Washington, d
C for thirty days, and I have on my for
you page video after video showing DC specifically Union Station
and how clean and safe it is. People don't understand
how big of a deal it is. Specifically for Union Station,
because there is a bridge, whether it's the bypass, it's
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either ninety five, three ninety five or four ninety five,
where the homeless as well as people who are abusing
drugs as well as the drug dealers, they just squat.
It's clean, it's all gone. It was also an underpass
bridge where people would throw their waists, so you would
drive on the main road into the left and right
of you is nothing but trash. It's all clean. People
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will understand how big of a deal this is because
the capital is right there within like a six or
seven minute walk. And then also local residents they did
not like walking there, whether in the daytime or the evening.
Some people would take taxis just to avoid any type
of encounters.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So this is the problem that Democrats have. People are
living with the crime. So when they say, oh, what
crime are you talking about? Crime is down? They look
at you the people you're talking like you're crazy, because
they're living it, they know it. And the problem is
if the Democrats agree that crime is rampant, then they
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are legitimizing what President Trump is doing. And we can't
have that because you know, we're not going to We're
not going to win the next election if President Trump
is right. Well, the big blue city mayors have made
their decision, and I believe the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging
voters because of it. I think that's what's happening. And
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for example, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says that they are
in a much better position than members of Congress to
push back against Trump on crime. This is his quote.
They don't know anything about reducing crime and violence. They
don't have to do it, they don't have to deal
with it. Really, President Trump doesn't know anything about crime. Well,
it seems to me he knows enough to deal with
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it by bringing the National Guard into DC, because they
seem to have, as a matter of fact, dealt with
it pretty effectively. So I find that impressive don't you.
I mean, wow, what they're showing is that not that
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President Trump doesn't know anything about crime, but that they
don't know anything about crime and they don't think that
you care about crime. That's one of the bizarre parts
of their whole stand. We played this for you last week,
but I want to give this example. This is Insha Ramen.
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She's from the very Institute of Justice, and she was
speaking at the DNC Summer meeting in Minneapolis, and she
says Americans don't care about things like carjacking Cut one
twenty six. Please Mike.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Shose, voters care about where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings,
the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.
Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried
about how are we going to address mental health issues,
the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how
do we deal with mental health and other issues that
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drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us.
That's what you should be talking about. That's where you
should be focused. Don't take the bait and talking about
migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don't
matter to that many Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Things that don't matter to that many Americans. A recent
ap ORC survey found that two thirds of US adults
think crime is a major problem in the country. In
eighty one percent think it's a major concern in the cities.
It looks like they do care about carjacking. That is
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the disconnect of the Democrat Party that have been brought
about by their own lives and their own power greediness.
That is what we are seeing. President Trump has an
answer for this. President Trump wants to bring in National
Guard to help restore law and order in the cities.
He doesn't care if you'r a blue city resident. He
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wants to bring it and he wants to help you out.
What is a Democrat mayor to do in that particular instance?
What would you do if you if you got that offer.
Let's let's go to Chris in Stoneham. Chris, welcome to WRKO.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
How are you, Sandy. I got to say, it's a
pleasure to listen to you again, it's a bonus for
a Tuesday. Oh thank you, and I mean that sincerely.
But several points where these people that they're talking to
that doesn't affect them. I believe that's true. A lot
of these people are in these lily white communities and
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they are immune to the gang violence that is so
prevalent inner cities, so they're not really aware. They are
kind of out of touch. And how else would you
know about it unless you live there. And secondly, the
media is just so I use the word disingenuous, because
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they can't possibly believe what they're spewing because they're aware
of what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They'll I'm sorry, Chris, stand the line. Don't go anywhere.
We have a hard break at twenty seven, so hang on.
President Trump is offering to help out crime riddled cities,
be they blue or be they read blue. Mayers are
saying crime, what crime? We don't need your help. What
would your response be to the offer made by President Trump?
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Let's go back to Chris and Stoneham. Sorry you had
to wag Chris those pesky breaks.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
He ran in and got something at the store, So
I make good use of myself. Good, yeah, not a problem.
But the only thing, excuse me, the only thing I
wanted to touch on sanding. He decided the show this morning,
which brightened my eyes to be honest with you, with
honesty and government and the numbers, and I haven't trusted
the labor numbers for years, especially when Obama, especially when
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the other team was in office. Not for one minute
that I trusted. And I'll give you a local story,
which is kind of the real reason I called again
with trusting government. They tried an override in our town,
would have run my bill up another two thousand dollars
a year and not thing. And oh my god. And
they hit the They always hit the little stuff. First.
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We're going to close the library. We're going to close
the Senior Center. It's similar to remember when when Obama
closed off the veterans. Yeah, excuse me, Memorial in Washington. Yeah,
it's the same shu. Yeah, yeah, it's the same crap.
And so all we're going to lose firemen, we're gonna
lose policemen. Well, the override went down, I'd say fairly overwhelmingly.
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It was it was like sixty forty, which is pretty
overwhelming to me because typically the people that really wanted
get out, but the people that didn't want to get
out this time, and lo and behold, the sky didn't fall,
The library did not close. The Senior Center is still open.
And guess what they not only did not lay off firemen,
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they hired four more. And guess what else they not.
They did not only lay off for policemen, which they
said would occur, they hired four more. So, just to
believe what this viewing, you've got to be an imbecile.
I'm sorry, but I see of that. You have to
work for them, and you have to want it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I think what is christ You have to want it
to be true. I've met people like that that, no
matter how outrageous it sounds, they want it to be
true because for whatever reason they've been told that that's
the right. Maybe it's just virtue signaling. Maybe it's you know,
they're they're afraid of being canceled and cancel culture. Whatever
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it is. They want it to be true because they
don't want to be wrong, and that's why they do that. Yeah,
I know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly
what you're talking about. Thank you so much for the call, Chris.
I appreciate it very much. Let's go to Joan in Watertown. Joan,
welcome to w RKO. How are you.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I'm thank you. I met you and you look great.
I want to tell you that thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I know exactly who you are, Joe. We met it
awake and win eighty.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Yeah, and I've been very successful in some of you,
so thank you. So I just wanted to mention, you know,
the Big City keeps saying the homicide records, you know,
they're down, but I think a lot of that is
due to the skills of the doctors in the hospitals.
They're getting a lot of practice operating on all these
criminals that are shooting or stabbing each other or hurting
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innocent people.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
And if you watch you know, Channel four or five
in the morning, which I only do just for the
weather and some local news, you know, they don't talk
about all these incidents, you know, they unless they absolutely
have to, and lately there seem to be incidents just
about every day. And of course, you know, they don't
want to cover what's going on in DC because that
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would you know, give some you know, plause that they
would have to say, oh, well, maybe Trump is accomplishing something,
you know. But I think it was on either Channel
four or five. I think it was five this morning
that the mayor of Chicago was on.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
He was out there.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Saying, oh, I don't want Trump to come here, and
then there was a protest group there, and all I
saw were white people in that protest. I didn't see
any black people because I think they support Trump because
they're the ones that are dealing with the crimes in
their neighborhoods and they want Trump to come and you
know where Trump is threatening to go to all these cities.
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I think that's kind of motivating some of the mayor's,
our governors to do something because newscum is actually going
to try to do something about crime. So, you know,
there's a lot of issues.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But I think John, I mean to interrupt you, but
he just was on a flasher a few minutes ago
that he went to a court to get a judge
to stop President Trump from sending in the National Guard.
So he may be trying to do something, but he
also wants to make sure that President Trump doesn't come
into his state, so he better try to do something.
To your point, I'm sorry to interrupt you, John, and.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Go ahead, fine, But I want to give kudos to
the doctors because you know they're you know, they're having
a challenging time keeping up with all of these injuries too,
and they saving a lot of lives, and you know,
they're saving people that maybe shouldn't even be saved, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, I appreciate that. I think you're absolutely right. Thank
you for the call, Joan. I think you're right about
the doctor's skill as part of the reason why some
deaths may be down. But a bigger issue, a bigger
reason why the statistics are down, is that they're not
really down. They've been filed under different crimes that they
should have been and this has become a problem in
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a couple of areas, not just in d C, where
they have discovered that the that the powers that be,
the local officials are playing fast and loose with statistics
that it wasn't really down. To your point regarding the
Mayor Johnson, he's one of the prime opponents of Chicago.
He's one of the prime opponents, as is Illinois Governor
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Pritzker against President Trump helping them out with the crime
he I want you to hear a cut from Mayor Johnson,
just we'll give you an idea of where he stands.
Cut twenty three, please, Mike.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
We have not called for this, our people have not
asked for this, but nevertheless we find ourselves having to
respond to this, and we find ourselves in a position
where we must take immediate, drastic action to protect our
people from federal overreach. Protecting Chicago will ensure that every
Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared,
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and every part of city government is directed to protect
the people of Chicago from federal action.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So he wants to protect the people of Chicago from
federal action, but not from crime. Because I want you
to listen to a Chicago alderman by the name of
Ray Lopez has a lot to say to Governor Pritzker
and Mayor Johnson regarding refusing the help for public safety
in Chicago Cut twenty five.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Please, we should be working to make sure that we
are in coordination with each other. There's nothing stopping the mayor,
the City of Chicago, the governor or the state of
Illinois from picking up the phone and reaching out to
the President of the United States and saying what can
we do to be on the same page. We should
all be looking to continuously decrease the amount of victims
in our city and in our state, and instead we're
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getting into this tip for social media back and forth nonsense,
which is only putting the people of Chicago and the
people of Illinois in the middle, in the crosshairs of
the criminals. Who are you going to use this time
to exploit and go crazy? As we're continuing to see
this weekend where we've had multiple mass shootings, multiple victims,
and no one wants to talk about them. I hear
the governor talking about an invasion and insurrection. I hear
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the mayor writing useless orders against the federal government. But
what no one is talking about is if our crime
stats are decreasing, why can't we push with Donald Trump's
help and decrease them even more? How many victims are
we comfortable with? Because that's ultimately the subtext of what
the mayor and the governor are saying, is that we
are comfortable with the amount of victims we have right now.
You don't need to improve on our numbers any further
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than that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Do you agree with Alderman Lopez? That is exactly what's
going on here. How many victims are we comfortable with?
That's a way to put it right out there, because
it seems to me that Mayor Johnson and also Governor
Pritzker have decided that there is no number that they
are uncomfortable with that. Anything is fine as long as
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they can keep out the bad Orange man and not
give him credit for helping them by crime. A crime
riddled environment that they created, by the way, through hosts sale,
illegal immigrant sanctuary city policies as well as non prosecution
of crime. And that's why Chicago is as bad as
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it is. Right now, let's go to Patrick in New York. Patrick,
Welcome to WRKO.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
How are you, hey, Sandy. I think two things that are
really scaring the Democrats. One is the fast reduction in crime.
The other component of it, though, is that there was
no there was no violations of civil rights. You didn't
get reports of black kids being thrown up against the
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wall and being forcibly searched like in the battle days
of Michael Bloomberg, you know. So that's what's really scaring them,
is that crime law enforcement can be done and civil
rights can be protected at the same time. So if
I was Donald Trump, He's on exactly the right course.
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Work with any Republican you can work with, work with
any Democrat you can work with, and let the twenty
twenty six governor's elections sort out the mess. You know,
there there are two very important governors races in twenty
twenty six where a Democratic governor is holding office, one
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in Michigan, one in Arizona, where the you know, if
if the Democrats don't work with the with the administration
to surge federal law enforcement and it's not just the
National Guard, it's all all of the federal law enforcements
c ATF and the DEA and all that stuff. If
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they don't work with them, and crime goes down in
Oklahoma and in Texas and in Louisiana, but it doesn't
go down in Arizona and Michigan. You could have you
could have you know, two Republican governors, you know, you know,
presiding over the twenty twenty eight election. Good in the end,
good policy is good politics.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I think that is. I know it's it sounds tripe,
but I think that's exactly where it is. Patrick, Good,
good policy is good politics. And that's the problem that
the Democrats have right now because they have put social
programs above law and order and above security and above
people's well being. I don't have a problem with social
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policies except Donald Trump's or embrace crime. It looks like
most blue governors and mayors have chosen the latter. Are
they cutting off their nose despite their face? This is
Sandy shack In for Jeff Cooner. This is the Kooner Report.
Let's go to Ann in Braintree, An. What do you
think are they being a little short sighted here?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
This is this is just about graft, that's all.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We're making it into more than what it is. These
mayors and governors don't want the federal government in their
sea because they're being paid off to let this happen.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Okay, they're being paid off by hand.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But who knows. Okay, whether it's the drug cartels, whether
it's sorrows, who knows. It doesn't really matter. Okay. If
you had to have surgery and your doctor says I'm
going to get a second opinion, would you go no, no, no,
I don't need it. That's okay. You know, if Trump
is right and he cleans up the city, great. If
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he's wrong and the governor or the mayor is right,
so what you get to be right? There's no downside
to having them come in, Okay, there's absolutely none unless
you've got something to hide.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, I think there's more than just if you've got
something to hide. I think you have a point, but
I think it's more than that. I think it has
to do with with voter hemorrhaging. The Democrats are hemorrhaging voters,
and one of the reasons why is that they've lied
one and two they've been wrong. They've been wrong about
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almost everything, and everything they said that would end in
disaster hasn't. So people are going, huh, not only did
they lie to me, but they've also hmm, their judgment
doesn't seem to be that sound. So hm, I don't
think I'm going to support them next time around. That's
what they're faced with. So I think they're panicking and
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they're making the wrong decision when it comes to things
like crime, because if they admit in their minds, I
think if they admit that Donald Trump is right about anything,
including crime, then you know that's going to cause more
voters to leave. As opposed to what I think would
happen is that if people say, Okay, they can admit
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they're wrong, they made a mistake, let's move on, they
would not lose as many people. I think it's desperation
and trying to keep a voter base. What do you
think of that?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Idea in lose the voters that they're going to lose
can't afford to leave. Okay, these are the low income people.
They can't afford to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Leave, Sure they can. They can afford to leave, and
many of them did in the last election. That's how
Donald Trump got reelected because they did absolutely positively. I
mean Donald Trump has done a lot for social programs
and a lot to help people stand on their own
two feet, and a lot of people appreciate that and standbime.
So I don't think it's just that you have people
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who I think there's a certain truth to that in
I think there's a certain number of people who think
that the Democrats were better at freebies than the Republicans are.
But I don't think that's the majority of the people.
I think a lot of people feel that life was better,
life is better under Trump if they're if they're as
a bigger tax base and there's a better base for
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the social programs that really matter. And I think that's
part of it. So I don't think it's just low
income people who are clinging to clinging to people like
Brandon Johnson, because those people are also in very crime
riddled neighborhoods, and they see firsthand what the crime is.
So when Mayor Johnson says, we don't need your help
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and they just, you know, just talk to Mabel who
was beaten up and mugged down the street for the
fourth time in a month, it resonates with them. So
I think that there's a little bit more to it
than graft. But thank you for the call. I appreciate
it very much. Let's go to Matt in Maine. Matt,
welcome to WRKO. How are you, sir?
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Hi Sandy? I agree with you, of course that the
FEDS can't go into the cities without permission. And Trump
would give the the lefties plenty of ammo to call
him a dictator if he tries to do that. So
rather than do that, I think via a press conference
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in Twitter or x whatever you want to call it,
he offered them help and expose their incompetence and the
shame them by reading out the horrible crime statistics that
are there and again offering help and saying, hey, by
the way, much of this violence is drug related. We
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close the border. You oppose that that's where the drugs
come from. You say you care about minorities. Almost all
of these people that are perpetrating the client crimes and
almost all of the victims on minorities don't seem to
care about that. So let's have him expose them and
shame them and read out the statistics how many people
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got killed there in Chicago over the weekend, and then
in the meantime, maybe get a couple of the more
conservative cities that have issues to ask him for help,
and get that help to them and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I love the idea of asking some of the conservative
cities to consent to having the National Guard come in.
I think that's a great idea, Matt, because I think
that leads by example. I don't think you're ever going
to see a position where some of the blue city
mayors will agree to any kind of side by side
with Donald Trump, whether it's on the phone or not,
because why would they do it? I mean, because, as
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you pointed out, Donald Trump has the statistics on his
side and he can shame them and call them out.
Why would you voluntarily put yourself in a position to
be shamed when you can just spitball from the side
and not take a direct hit. That's what they're doing
now because they know that they would be shamed in
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a one on one with Donald Trump. But I do
love the idea of having maybe from a red state
or more conservative state, or maybe a democratic state that
understands what's at stake here for people agree to let
the National Guard come in. And I mean Mayor Bowser
is an example of what can happen on a positive level.
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But she didn't want it, she fought it, but she
had no choice. The other mayors have a choice. Maybe
if you can find one or two said we know, hey,
come on here, we would be thrilled to have you
come on board. I think that is a tremendous idea,
and I hope that I hope that somebody in the
Trump administration follows through in that and sees if they
can find somebody. It doesn't have to be Chicago, just
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somebody who could agree to that.
Democrats are between a rock and a hard place if
by saying there is no crime, they turn off voters
who are living with the crime and believe they're lying
eyes as opposed to the Democrat talking points. People like
Iris Tao. She's a White House correspondent and she dropped
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by the cabinet meeting with the President last week to
thank him for making DC safer cut one twenty one
please Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And you did refuse to give it, which will probably
maybe somebody would say that was not the right decision, right,
but you refuse, but I understand that so so and
then he hit you real hard. It's really amazing that
you weren't shot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That was I'm very blessed, and that's why having this
opportunity to stand here to share my story today. One,
I'm very grateful for God for allowing me to still
survive to this day, but also to miss the President.
Thank you for now making for us, for our families,
for my parents on my behalf of my parents and
now my my baby on the way.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Thanky so much.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's that's a nice moment, I have to say. And
there was this, there was a Twitter video, an ex
video put up by a young DC woman who was saying,
you guys don't know how big a deal this is.
Cleaning up the city cut one twenty two, please Mike.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
President Trump has not even had control over Washington, d
C for thirty days, and I have on my for
you page video after video showing DC specifically Union Station
and how clean and safe it is. People don't understand
how big of a deal it is. Specifically for Union Station,
because there is a bridge, whether it's the bypass, it's
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either ninety five, three ninety five or four ninety five,
where the homeless as well as people who are abusing
drugs as well as the drug dealers, they just squat.
It's clean, it's all gone. It was also an underpass
bridge where people would throw their waists, so you would
drive on the main road into the left and right
of you is nothing but trash. It's all clean. People
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will understand how big of a deal this is because
the capital is right there within like a six or
seven minute walk. And then also local residents they did
not like walking there, whether in the daytime or the evening.
Some people would take taxis just to avoid any type
of encounters.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So this is the problem that Democrats have. People are
living with the crime. So when they say, oh, what
crime are you talking about? Crime is down? They look
at you the people you're talking like you're crazy, because
they're living it, they know it. And the problem is
if the Democrats agree that crime is rampant, then they
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are legitimizing what President Trump is doing. And we can't
have that because you know, we're not going to We're
not going to win the next election if President Trump
is right. Well, the big blue city mayors have made
their decision, and I believe the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging
voters because of it. I think that's what's happening. And
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for example, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says that they are
in a much better position than members of Congress to
push back against Trump on crime. This is his quote.
They don't know anything about reducing crime and violence. They
don't have to do it, they don't have to deal
with it. Really, President Trump doesn't know anything about crime. Well,
it seems to me he knows enough to deal with
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it by bringing the National Guard into DC, because they
seem to have, as a matter of fact, dealt with
it pretty effectively. So I find that impressive don't you.
I mean, wow, what they're showing is that not that
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President Trump doesn't know anything about crime, but that they
don't know anything about crime and they don't think that
you care about crime. That's one of the bizarre parts
of their whole stand. We played this for you last week,
but I want to give this example. This is Insha Ramen.
(04:18):
She's from the very Institute of Justice, and she was
speaking at the DNC Summer meeting in Minneapolis, and she
says Americans don't care about things like carjacking Cut one
twenty six. Please Mike.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Shose, voters care about where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings,
the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.
Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried
about how are we going to address mental health issues,
the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how
do we deal with mental health and other issues that
(04:55):
drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us.
That's what you should be talking about. That's where you
should be focused. Don't take the bait and talking about
migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don't
matter to that many Americans.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Things that don't matter to that many Americans. A recent
ap ORC survey found that two thirds of US adults
think crime is a major problem in the country. In
eighty one percent think it's a major concern in the cities.
It looks like they do care about carjacking. That is
(05:30):
the disconnect of the Democrat Party that have been brought
about by their own lives and their own power greediness.
That is what we are seeing. President Trump has an
answer for this. President Trump wants to bring in National
Guard to help restore law and order in the cities.
He doesn't care if you'r a blue city resident. He
(05:51):
wants to bring it and he wants to help you out.
What is a Democrat mayor to do in that particular instance?
What would you do if you if you got that offer.
Let's let's go to Chris in Stoneham. Chris, welcome to WRKO.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
How are you, Sandy. I got to say, it's a
pleasure to listen to you again, it's a bonus for
a Tuesday. Oh thank you, and I mean that sincerely.
But several points where these people that they're talking to
that doesn't affect them. I believe that's true. A lot
of these people are in these lily white communities and
(06:26):
they are immune to the gang violence that is so
prevalent inner cities, so they're not really aware. They are
kind of out of touch. And how else would you
know about it unless you live there. And secondly, the
media is just so I use the word disingenuous, because
(06:47):
they can't possibly believe what they're spewing because they're aware
of what's going on.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
They'll I'm sorry, Chris, stand the line. Don't go anywhere.
We have a hard break at twenty seven, so hang on.
President Trump is offering to help out crime riddled cities,
be they blue or be they read blue. Mayers are
saying crime, what crime? We don't need your help. What
would your response be to the offer made by President Trump?
(07:15):
Let's go back to Chris and Stoneham. Sorry you had
to wag Chris those pesky breaks.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
He ran in and got something at the store, So
I make good use of myself. Good, yeah, not a problem.
But the only thing, excuse me, the only thing I
wanted to touch on sanding. He decided the show this morning,
which brightened my eyes to be honest with you, with
honesty and government and the numbers, and I haven't trusted
the labor numbers for years, especially when Obama, especially when
(07:42):
the other team was in office. Not for one minute
that I trusted. And I'll give you a local story,
which is kind of the real reason I called again
with trusting government. They tried an override in our town,
would have run my bill up another two thousand dollars
a year and not thing. And oh my god. And
they hit the They always hit the little stuff. First.
(08:05):
We're going to close the library. We're going to close
the Senior Center. It's similar to remember when when Obama
closed off the veterans. Yeah, excuse me, Memorial in Washington. Yeah,
it's the same shu. Yeah, yeah, it's the same crap.
And so all we're going to lose firemen, we're gonna
lose policemen. Well, the override went down, I'd say fairly overwhelmingly.
(08:28):
It was it was like sixty forty, which is pretty
overwhelming to me because typically the people that really wanted
get out, but the people that didn't want to get
out this time, and lo and behold, the sky didn't fall,
The library did not close. The Senior Center is still open.
And guess what they not only did not lay off firemen,
(08:50):
they hired four more. And guess what else they not.
They did not only lay off for policemen, which they
said would occur, they hired four more. So, just to
believe what this viewing, you've got to be an imbecile.
I'm sorry, but I see of that. You have to
work for them, and you have to want it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I think what is christ You have to want it
to be true. I've met people like that that, no
matter how outrageous it sounds, they want it to be
true because for whatever reason they've been told that that's
the right. Maybe it's just virtue signaling. Maybe it's you know,
they're they're afraid of being canceled and cancel culture. Whatever
(09:30):
it is. They want it to be true because they
don't want to be wrong, and that's why they do that. Yeah,
I know exactly what you're talking about. I know exactly
what you're talking about. Thank you so much for the call, Chris.
I appreciate it very much. Let's go to Joan in Watertown. Joan,
welcome to w RKO. How are you.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I'm thank you. I met you and you look great.
I want to tell you that thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I know exactly who you are, Joe. We met it
awake and win eighty.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
Yeah, and I've been very successful in some of you,
so thank you. So I just wanted to mention, you know,
the Big City keeps saying the homicide records, you know,
they're down, but I think a lot of that is
due to the skills of the doctors in the hospitals.
They're getting a lot of practice operating on all these
criminals that are shooting or stabbing each other or hurting
(10:17):
innocent people.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
You know.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
And if you watch you know, Channel four or five
in the morning, which I only do just for the
weather and some local news, you know, they don't talk
about all these incidents, you know, they unless they absolutely
have to, and lately there seem to be incidents just
about every day. And of course, you know, they don't
want to cover what's going on in DC because that
(10:39):
would you know, give some you know, plause that they
would have to say, oh, well, maybe Trump is accomplishing something,
you know. But I think it was on either Channel
four or five. I think it was five this morning
that the mayor of Chicago was on.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
He was out there.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Saying, oh, I don't want Trump to come here, and
then there was a protest group there, and all I
saw were white people in that protest. I didn't see
any black people because I think they support Trump because
they're the ones that are dealing with the crimes in
their neighborhoods and they want Trump to come and you
know where Trump is threatening to go to all these cities.
(11:16):
I think that's kind of motivating some of the mayor's,
our governors to do something because newscum is actually going
to try to do something about crime. So, you know,
there's a lot of issues.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But I think John, I mean to interrupt you, but
he just was on a flasher a few minutes ago
that he went to a court to get a judge
to stop President Trump from sending in the National Guard.
So he may be trying to do something, but he
also wants to make sure that President Trump doesn't come
into his state, so he better try to do something.
To your point, I'm sorry to interrupt you, John, and.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Go ahead, fine, But I want to give kudos to
the doctors because you know they're you know, they're having
a challenging time keeping up with all of these injuries too,
and they saving a lot of lives, and you know,
they're saving people that maybe shouldn't even be saved, but whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
No, I appreciate that. I think you're absolutely right. Thank
you for the call, Joan. I think you're right about
the doctor's skill as part of the reason why some
deaths may be down. But a bigger issue, a bigger
reason why the statistics are down, is that they're not
really down. They've been filed under different crimes that they
should have been and this has become a problem in
(12:28):
a couple of areas, not just in d C, where
they have discovered that the that the powers that be,
the local officials are playing fast and loose with statistics
that it wasn't really down. To your point regarding the
Mayor Johnson, he's one of the prime opponents of Chicago.
He's one of the prime opponents, as is Illinois Governor
(12:51):
Pritzker against President Trump helping them out with the crime
he I want you to hear a cut from Mayor Johnson,
just we'll give you an idea of where he stands.
Cut twenty three, please, Mike.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
We have not called for this, our people have not
asked for this, but nevertheless we find ourselves having to
respond to this, and we find ourselves in a position
where we must take immediate, drastic action to protect our
people from federal overreach. Protecting Chicago will ensure that every
Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared,
(13:30):
and every part of city government is directed to protect
the people of Chicago from federal action.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So he wants to protect the people of Chicago from
federal action, but not from crime. Because I want you
to listen to a Chicago alderman by the name of
Ray Lopez has a lot to say to Governor Pritzker
and Mayor Johnson regarding refusing the help for public safety
in Chicago Cut twenty five.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Please, we should be working to make sure that we
are in coordination with each other. There's nothing stopping the mayor,
the City of Chicago, the governor or the state of
Illinois from picking up the phone and reaching out to
the President of the United States and saying what can
we do to be on the same page. We should
all be looking to continuously decrease the amount of victims
in our city and in our state, and instead we're
(14:17):
getting into this tip for social media back and forth nonsense,
which is only putting the people of Chicago and the
people of Illinois in the middle, in the crosshairs of
the criminals. Who are you going to use this time
to exploit and go crazy? As we're continuing to see
this weekend where we've had multiple mass shootings, multiple victims,
and no one wants to talk about them. I hear
the governor talking about an invasion and insurrection. I hear
(14:40):
the mayor writing useless orders against the federal government. But
what no one is talking about is if our crime
stats are decreasing, why can't we push with Donald Trump's
help and decrease them even more? How many victims are
we comfortable with? Because that's ultimately the subtext of what
the mayor and the governor are saying, is that we
are comfortable with the amount of victims we have right now.
You don't need to improve on our numbers any further
(15:02):
than that.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Do you agree with Alderman Lopez? That is exactly what's
going on here. How many victims are we comfortable with?
That's a way to put it right out there, because
it seems to me that Mayor Johnson and also Governor
Pritzker have decided that there is no number that they
are uncomfortable with that. Anything is fine as long as
(15:25):
they can keep out the bad Orange man and not
give him credit for helping them by crime. A crime
riddled environment that they created, by the way, through hosts sale,
illegal immigrant sanctuary city policies as well as non prosecution
of crime. And that's why Chicago is as bad as
(15:45):
it is. Right now, let's go to Patrick in New York. Patrick,
Welcome to WRKO.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
How are you, hey, Sandy. I think two things that are
really scaring the Democrats. One is the fast reduction in crime.
The other component of it, though, is that there was
no there was no violations of civil rights. You didn't
get reports of black kids being thrown up against the
(16:11):
wall and being forcibly searched like in the battle days
of Michael Bloomberg, you know. So that's what's really scaring them,
is that crime law enforcement can be done and civil
rights can be protected at the same time. So if
I was Donald Trump, He's on exactly the right course.
(16:33):
Work with any Republican you can work with, work with
any Democrat you can work with, and let the twenty
twenty six governor's elections sort out the mess. You know,
there there are two very important governors races in twenty
twenty six where a Democratic governor is holding office, one
(16:55):
in Michigan, one in Arizona, where the you know, if
if the Democrats don't work with the with the administration
to surge federal law enforcement and it's not just the
National Guard, it's all all of the federal law enforcements
c ATF and the DEA and all that stuff. If
(17:15):
they don't work with them, and crime goes down in
Oklahoma and in Texas and in Louisiana, but it doesn't
go down in Arizona and Michigan. You could have you
could have you know, two Republican governors, you know, you know,
presiding over the twenty twenty eight election. Good in the end,
good policy is good politics.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I think that is. I know it's it sounds tripe,
but I think that's exactly where it is. Patrick, Good,
good policy is good politics. And that's the problem that
the Democrats have right now because they have put social
programs above law and order and above security and above
people's well being. I don't have a problem with social
(17:57):
policies except Donald Trump's or embrace crime. It looks like
most blue governors and mayors have chosen the latter. Are
they cutting off their nose despite their face? This is
Sandy shack In for Jeff Cooner. This is the Kooner Report.
Let's go to Ann in Braintree, An. What do you
think are they being a little short sighted here?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
This is this is just about graft, that's all.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We're making it into more than what it is. These
mayors and governors don't want the federal government in their
sea because they're being paid off to let this happen.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Okay, they're being paid off by hand.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
But who knows. Okay, whether it's the drug cartels, whether
it's sorrows, who knows. It doesn't really matter. Okay. If
you had to have surgery and your doctor says I'm
going to get a second opinion, would you go no, no, no,
I don't need it. That's okay. You know, if Trump
is right and he cleans up the city, great. If
(18:59):
he's wrong and the governor or the mayor is right,
so what you get to be right? There's no downside
to having them come in, Okay, there's absolutely none unless
you've got something to hide.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, I think there's more than just if you've got
something to hide. I think you have a point, but
I think it's more than that. I think it has
to do with with voter hemorrhaging. The Democrats are hemorrhaging voters,
and one of the reasons why is that they've lied
one and two they've been wrong. They've been wrong about
(19:37):
almost everything, and everything they said that would end in
disaster hasn't. So people are going, huh, not only did
they lie to me, but they've also hmm, their judgment
doesn't seem to be that sound. So hm, I don't
think I'm going to support them next time around. That's
what they're faced with. So I think they're panicking and
(20:00):
they're making the wrong decision when it comes to things
like crime, because if they admit in their minds, I
think if they admit that Donald Trump is right about anything,
including crime, then you know that's going to cause more
voters to leave. As opposed to what I think would
happen is that if people say, Okay, they can admit
(20:21):
they're wrong, they made a mistake, let's move on, they
would not lose as many people. I think it's desperation
and trying to keep a voter base. What do you
think of that?
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Idea in lose the voters that they're going to lose
can't afford to leave. Okay, these are the low income people.
They can't afford to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Leave, Sure they can. They can afford to leave, and
many of them did in the last election. That's how
Donald Trump got reelected because they did absolutely positively. I
mean Donald Trump has done a lot for social programs
and a lot to help people stand on their own
two feet, and a lot of people appreciate that and standbime.
So I don't think it's just that you have people
(21:02):
who I think there's a certain truth to that in
I think there's a certain number of people who think
that the Democrats were better at freebies than the Republicans are.
But I don't think that's the majority of the people.
I think a lot of people feel that life was better,
life is better under Trump if they're if they're as
a bigger tax base and there's a better base for
(21:25):
the social programs that really matter. And I think that's
part of it. So I don't think it's just low
income people who are clinging to clinging to people like
Brandon Johnson, because those people are also in very crime
riddled neighborhoods, and they see firsthand what the crime is.
So when Mayor Johnson says, we don't need your help
(21:46):
and they just, you know, just talk to Mabel who
was beaten up and mugged down the street for the
fourth time in a month, it resonates with them. So
I think that there's a little bit more to it
than graft. But thank you for the call. I appreciate
it very much. Let's go to Matt in Maine. Matt,
welcome to WRKO. How are you, sir?
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Hi Sandy? I agree with you, of course that the
FEDS can't go into the cities without permission. And Trump
would give the the lefties plenty of ammo to call
him a dictator if he tries to do that. So
rather than do that, I think via a press conference
(22:25):
in Twitter or x whatever you want to call it,
he offered them help and expose their incompetence and the
shame them by reading out the horrible crime statistics that
are there and again offering help and saying, hey, by
the way, much of this violence is drug related. We
(22:46):
close the border. You oppose that that's where the drugs
come from. You say you care about minorities. Almost all
of these people that are perpetrating the client crimes and
almost all of the victims on minorities don't seem to
care about that. So let's have him expose them and
shame them and read out the statistics how many people
(23:09):
got killed there in Chicago over the weekend, and then
in the meantime, maybe get a couple of the more
conservative cities that have issues to ask him for help,
and get that help to them and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I love the idea of asking some of the conservative
cities to consent to having the National Guard come in.
I think that's a great idea, Matt, because I think
that leads by example. I don't think you're ever going
to see a position where some of the blue city
mayors will agree to any kind of side by side
with Donald Trump, whether it's on the phone or not,
because why would they do it? I mean, because, as
(23:46):
you pointed out, Donald Trump has the statistics on his
side and he can shame them and call them out.
Why would you voluntarily put yourself in a position to
be shamed when you can just spitball from the side
and not take a direct hit. That's what they're doing
now because they know that they would be shamed in
(24:06):
a one on one with Donald Trump. But I do
love the idea of having maybe from a red state
or more conservative state, or maybe a democratic state that
understands what's at stake here for people agree to let
the National Guard come in. And I mean Mayor Bowser
is an example of what can happen on a positive level.
(24:26):
But she didn't want it, she fought it, but she
had no choice. The other mayors have a choice. Maybe
if you can find one or two said we know, hey,
come on here, we would be thrilled to have you
come on board. I think that is a tremendous idea,
and I hope that I hope that somebody in the
Trump administration follows through in that and sees if they
can find somebody. It doesn't have to be Chicago, just
(24:49):
somebody who could agree to that.
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