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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't touch that dow or change the channel because it's
Sunday at seven pm and you're listening to Ihearts WRKO.
This is the hard truth, and I am John Deaton.
I hope everyone had a good week. God, I gotta
tell you, there's so much news every week to go over.
Sometimes I just don't even know where to start. But unfortunately,

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I'm going to start with something that is a problem
in this country, and it's it's I believe reached an epidemic,
and that is the fact that our judges across the
country have become so soft on crime. They have been

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letting out career criminals on five hundred dollars cash bill,
sometimes no bell. And I'm not talking about isolated cases.
I'm not talking about oh, there's this one instance where
this was unforeseeable. We're talking about people who have been

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career criminals for years. Thirty nine arrest fourteen arrests. A
couple of weeks ago on the show, we unfortunately talked
about that poor girl who was only twenty two years old,
the Ukrainian refugee who was on a public transportation and
the individual behind her who had been arrested fourteen times.

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Who was allowed to walk the streets on a promise,
on a verbal promise that he would come back to
court by some magistrate who wasn't even a lawyer, who
wasn't even a judge, And that twenty two year old
lost her life because that individual, that career criminal, that

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piece of you know what, took out a knife and
stabbed her in her neck, taking her life from her.
The immediate question is why why is that person out
on the street. And some of you thinking and listening

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to this to night, you think, well that that was
North Carolina, and there was another incident South Carolina. It
happens here in Massachusetts. I mean, remember the illegal who
was charged with rape, rape of a child and was
given five hundred dollars cash bill by a judge. Listen,

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I'm a former federal prosecutor, and I have never lived
in an era when someone is charged with rape of
a child, Normally you wouldn't even give bell. The person
has already demonstrated that they are a sick person who

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would attack a child. You wouldn't get bail, certainly wouldn't
get five hundred dollars. And this person was out on
the street and commits another crime another crime, another child,
all because of weak judges who have become soft. I

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think this from the era of defund the police, and
we got to just somehow lose our whole law and
order perspective that somehow that if we're softer on these
criminals that they'll somehow you see the light. No, there
are people who commit violent crimes and they deserve to

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be locked up for a very long time, if not forever,
depending on the nature of the charges. And we're seeing
this play out over and over. A lot of times
it's related to people who are here illegally. We've seen
it in Massachusetts many there was seven hundred and fifty

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rest of criminals by ice, okay, and so we know
it's a problem. But we need to start holding judges
accountable for their entire lack of judgment when they release
a career criminal out on the street. So we're going

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to start by listening to a father. And I got
to tell you, when I watched this man testify, I
got emotional. I got emotional. I'm getting emotional right now
because you can hear the pain knowing that his daughter
was calling for daddy, Like the daughter wants dad to

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come rescue her from this criminal. But I'm going to
let him tell the story because he can tell it
so much more effective than I. This is him testifying
in Congress. Okay, it's about four minutes, but it's worth
listening to because he says it the only way a

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dad of a little girl could say it.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
How about of y'all have kids. I'm just curious. Here's
what I need you to do when I tell you
this story. Think about your kids. Think about your child
coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down,
going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and
wake them and drag her out of bed, naked, forced

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on her knees, with her hands over her head, begging
for her life, begging for her hero. Her father me,
that couldn't be there. She was five, 't three, She
weighed one hundred and fifteen pounds, bang dead gone. Why

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because Alexander Devonte Dickey, who was arrested thirty nine goddamn
times twenty five felonies, was on the street. How about that?
How good are we doing for our family? How good
are you doing for your kids? He should have been

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in jail for over one hundred and forty years for
all the crimes he committed. You know how much time
he's spent in prison, a little over six hundred days
in ten years. He's only thirty years old. He was
committing two point sixty five crimes a year since he
was fifteen years old. But nobody could figure out that

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he couldn't be rehabilitated. Well, you'd have to put him
in prison to see if he could be rehabilitated. Isn't
that the idea of prison? But no, my daughter wanted
to be a teacher. She finally figured it out two
weeks before she was executed. And I haven't heard a

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damn word from Byron Gibson in South Carolina, not one word,
four months, no communication. His biggest concern was that he
was pissed off about my interview and how I made
him look on the Fox News Channel with Trey Gowdi.
How pathetic is that that we're letting our twenty two

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year old kid visiting friends. It's all she ever wanted
to do was visit friends. And she literally was executed
while on her knees, begging for her life. Her name's
logan Federico, not irena. And you will not forget her.

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I promise you you will be sick and tired of
my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I
will fight until my last breath for my daughter. You
need to fight for the rest of our children, the
rest of the innocence, and stop protecting the people that

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keep taking them from us. Please, you have the power.
We put you in the power to do what you
have to do. We're asking you, We're begging you all
to stop this. Thirty nine crimes in ten years, twenty

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five felonies. Can anybody here explain to me? Well, how
possibly he could be on the street, possibly be on
the street, How is it possible? Down the room and
I can explain the whole process? I have it failed?
How South Carolina failed? Logan, Okay, how lack of communication?

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What y'all did? You woke up a beast and you
pissed off the wrong daddy? Because I'm going to put
it out there and I'm not going to be quiet
until somebody helps. Logan deserves to be heard. Everyone on
this panel deserves to be heard, and we will trust me.

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My daughter laid on the floor for seven hours before
somebody in that house recognized that something was wrong and
that curer criminal. An hour later, went on a spending
spree with her debit card. When they saw his face
on a video, they didn't have to do a check.

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He was arrested so many times. I knew who he was,
They knew exactly where to go get him. Pathetic. That's
only pathetic that I'm here today. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Wow, Logan Federico, rest in peace. But we're seeing this
epidemic across the country where criminals, some of them are
legal criminals who are here illegally. Some of them are
just career criminals. Thirty nine arrest twenty plus felonies in

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ten years in ten years. Again, we've got to start
holding judges responsible. Now, how we do that, you know,
that's an interesting thing. I don't have the answer to
all of this. All I know is that judges who

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have lifetime tenure, who can they have that kind of
safety net. Sometimes they just don't care because they don't
think there's any consequences to him. But a young woman
lost her life in a case. We're no reasonable person,
No reasonable person could say that he deserved to be
on the street in any way. Something's got to change.

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We got to get back to law and order so
that our streets are safe for our people. You listen
to the Hard Truth. I'm John Daton. Come back from
the break. Welcome back to the Hard Truth. I'm John Daton.
You can reach the show at John at Hard Truthshow
dot com. John at Hard Truthshow dot com. Send me

(11:35):
your comments, criticisms and maybe I'll read them on the air.
So another big event that happened this week. Pete Heckseth,
the Secretary of Defense, or as it's now known in
the Trump administration, the Secretary of War, basically convened over

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eight hundred generals and admirals from across the world where
they were stationed to come to Qunicle Marine Corps Base
in Quanticle, Virginia because he had He and President Trump
had some comments to me. Now, a lot of people

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speculated about this event. A lot of people thought that
it meant that we're going to war. A lot of
people said it would be a strike on Venezuelan, and
the cart tells a lot of people thought this. A
lot of people thought that, And really what it ended
up being is that the administration, through Pete Hegsath, basically

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issued a war on woiteness and wanted face to face
to tell these generals and these admirals, how the military
and the Department of War Defense is going to move forward,
that we're getting away from habits of the past. And

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so instead of me summarizing everything, let's hear a clip
from the Defense Secretary himself and let you hear it
directly by him.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
The era of politically correct overly sensitive, don't hurt anyone's feelings.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Leadership ends right now.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
But if the words I'm speaking today are making your
heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
We would thank you for your service.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
For too long, we've promoted too many uniform leaders for
the wrong reasons, based on their race, based on gender quotas,
based on historics, so called firsts. We've pretended that combat
arms and non combat arms are the same thing. We've
weeded out so called toxic leaders under the guys of
double blind psychology assessments, promoting risk averse go along to

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get along conformists instead.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
You name it. The Department did it. Foolish and reckless political.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
We became the woke Department. But not anymore.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
This administration has done a great deal from day one,
to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological
garbage that had infected our department.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
To rip out the politics.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no
more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions,
no more debried. But when it comes to any job
that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical
standards must be high and gender neutral. If women can

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make it excellent, If not, it is what it is.
If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs,
so be it.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay. Now, a lot of controversy from this meeting. You
just heard Pete Egeth, the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War.
I've been interviewed about this. Obviously. You all know that
I'm a retired marine officer, and I gotta be honest

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with you. I am not offended in any way by
Pete Hegseeth's saying no more dudes and dresses on active duty.
No more beard oz. Right, you know I guess a
beard oz. These you know, long long beards that people

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are growing today. They says, we're going to look professional,
We're going to look fit. Nothing controversial about that, I
think that we have lowered our standards. I got to
tell you. When I was in the Marine Corps active duty,
you got a physical fitness test twice a year, and

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you got scored, and there were scores right Class A,
Class B, or Class one, and there were minimum things
that you had to do. You had to do a
certain amount of sit ups, a certain amount of pull ups.
You had to run three miles in a certain period
of time. You had to be able to execute a
fireman's carry. What that is is if a if you're

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in combat and a fellow marine gets injured, gets shot,
and that marine weighs, you know, one hundred and ninety pounds,
you have to be able to put that marine on
your shoulder and carry him or her one hundred yards
somewhere to safety. If you can't execute that type of

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exercise eyes, then you're not fit for that combat related role,
close combat infantry position. Now, nothing wrong with that. We
had to do that. I was a lawyer in the
Marine Corps. I had to pass all those tests even
though I was a lawyer, because every marine, especially marine officer,

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was expected to be able to meet minimum standards, and
so I got no problem with them saying Hey, it
looks bad when you go out and you look at
a formation and you see a bunch of fat soldiers
or fat marines or fat sailors. That looks terrible. If
you're in the Pentagon and you see generals walking around

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and they're clearly fat and out of shape and can't
do one pull up, it's really not a good look
for the greatest fighting force in the world. So everything
that Pete Hegseth said, Uh, no issue with it. Listen,
we have women pilots that are common pilots, some of
the best in the world, and there are women who

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will not meet certain physical standards, but there's a lot
of men that won't meet those certain minimum standards. And
so I remember as I was leaving the Marine Corps,
I remember hearing that the Air Force had implemented stress
cards in boot camp that if a drill instructor was

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being really harsh on an airman or an airmen recruit,
that they had a little card and if they pulled
out this little blue card, then that meant basically a
time out, and the drill instructor would like leave that
airmen alone. And I called my brother Toby, who had

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a career Air Force, and I said, what the hell
is going on? Man? What's going on? You got stress cards?
I mean, are you going to pull that out in
the combat situation with the enemy and be like, hold on,
take a time out?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:02):
And so of course we need those minimum That's good. Now,
if you're going to criticize the Pete Hegseth scenario, you
certainly could say, well, was it necessary to bring all
of them to Washington to spend all that money? Couldn't
you have done this in a video message that sent

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vis a vi email? Sure you could do that. I
think that one. It's a little bit of grandstanding by
Pete Hegseth. Like he was in his element. He referred
to himself as the secretary him if he can engage
in hard pt, then our soldiers, sailors and marines can

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do it. But I think it was more of wanting
to say, face to face, if you don't like what
we're saying, then get out now. If you're not going
to agree what us going back to a certain minimum
level of physical standards, then leave now. When I was

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on active duty, you had strict height weight tables. If
you're six foot one like me, then you could weigh
up to two hundred and five pounds. If you weighed
more than two hundred and five pounds, then you got
a body fat test. And if you were you know,
twelve percent body fat, you're good to go. Okay, So,

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but if you're not, then you needed a waiver. How
did you look in your uniform? If you're you know,
the marine uniform is form fitting. If you have a
gut hanging over your your uniform, your belt, it looks
terrible grooming standards. I wear a gold tee today. When
I was on active duty, I could never wear this
go tea. Nothing wrong with that. We have an all

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military force. It's volunteers and I'm getting at it's an
all volunteer force. We want our young men and women
to be one of the few, one of the proud.
We want them to be considered exceptional. We want them
to know that, hey, regular people, they're not going to

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be able to drill like this. They're not going to
be able to have combat conditioning courses like this. They're
not going to be able to peete the way you do.
They're not going to be able to manipulate their own
body weight the way you do. How you can engage
in this physical activity. How you can do this and
do that, you're exceptional. Regular people out there in the

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civilian world they wouldn't do this. They're not committed. Like
you look, how professional you look in your uniform, how
fit you look. That's pride and you want people to
come in and be like, yeah, I want to be
part of that. And so I think you're going to
see recruitment continue to increase. It was down, you know,

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the days of wokeness and trans gender and the military
and officers wearing dresses even though they're a biological male.
They're just not going to tolerate that moving forward. And
you know, I support that. If that makes me, you know,
old school or controversial, then that's what it does. But

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nothing wrong with making sure that our armed forces is
the fittest, the strongest, and the meanest that because you've
got to remember, why do we have a military. It's
not just to defend in case there's an attack. Is
that you have to close in and destroy the enemy.
If we get engaged in the war, close in and

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destroy the enemy, and you have to be prepared to
do that. It starts from the top with the generals,
with the admirals, and that's why it's there, and that's
why I think they did this live. You're listening to
The Hard Truth. I'm John Daton. When we come back,
exciting news in mass politics. Welcome back to The Hard Truth.

(23:09):
I'm John Deaton. You can reach the show with John
at Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard Truthshow dot Com.
All right, so, in the last couple of days, we've
had a third entrance into the Republican primary for governor
here in Massachusetts. If you've been listening to the show,

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you know that I had Brian Shortsleeve as a guest.
We interviewed Brian. I'm sure I'll interview Brian again. At
some point. I interviewed Mike Kanneely. I'm sure I'll invite
Mike Knanneely back again to interview him as well, to
check in with both of them. But there's been a

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third entrance, and there's a third gentleman. His name's Mike
mcnogue and he too is running for governor. And let
me say at the outset, as I told you, we're
gonna invite Mike mcnogue to The Hard Truth. Give him
an opportunity, get you an opportunity to listen to him

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what his vision is for Massachusetts as governor. And just
like I did with the other candidates talking about their campaign,
I'm gonna let Mike mcnogue introduce himself through his announcement video,
and then I'll make a few words and then hopefully
we'll interview him real soon here on the Hard Truth.

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But this is the introduction of the third person to
announce for governor in the Republican primary, Mike mcnobe.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
I was twelve years old when the gas crisis hit.
Stations like this had cars lined up for blocks, families waiting,
hoping not to run out. So my mom made the coffee,
I loaded up my red wagon and sold it car
to car. It taught me when there's a problem or
opportunity to step up. I saw that in my dad,

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who served in the Air Force, and my grandfather, who
served as a police officer. Watching them, I learned what
it means to put on the uniform and serve something
bigger than yourself. So I went to West Point and
joined the Army as an infantry platoon leader and ranger
in desert storm. Leading soldiers in combat taught me true

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leadership requires service and grit that carried me home to Massachusetts,
where I became the CEO of ABBUMT for nineteen years,
a public company that built the world's smallest heart pumps.
We saved hundreds of thousands of lives, created thousands of jobs,
and when Washington tried to crush our industry with a

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medical device tax, we fought back and won. Whether it's
leading soldiers or leading a business, the mission is the same,
take care of your people and deliver results. I love Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's our home.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Rene and I raised our five kids here, built our
lives here, and poured our hearts into this community, from
coaching on the sidelines to supporting schools and veterans. This
state has given us so much.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
And we've always believed in giving back.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
But too many families don't feel that promise anymore. They're
being squeezed by higher costs, ignored by politicians who care
more about themselves than the citizens they serve. Working people
have been left behind, and many are leaving. Our current
one party system isn't working. What we need is a

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new kind of public servant. I'm Mike Minogue. I've spent
my life running towards problems and fixing them to make
a big difference from that red wagon to soldier to
ceo and Dad, I'm running through a new kind of governor,
one with the faith, the heart and the grid to
serve for Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right. So that was Mike mcnogue's announcement running for
governor to first win the Republican primary and then take
on Morihealey again. I will, as i've highlighted the other
two gentlemen, Brian Shortsleeve and Mike Kneely, highlighting Mike mcnogue,

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and I will extend an imitation to Mike mcnogue to
come on the show, answer our questions, share his vision
as to why he and his own words, should be
the next governor. I can tell you this, any one
of these three gentlemen will be an amazing change to

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more Healey. This one party rule that Mike we Know
mentions in his announcement video. We've got to do something
about it. We've got to get a seat at the table.
It is unhealthy. Look how they just won't even comply
with an audit that seventy two percent of the voters

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demanded be the law because they don't think that the
voters are going to pick someone else, and so I'm
excited to see three very qualified individuals run for governor.
And I'm looking forward to first talking to Mike. I

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didn't bring in Brian or Mike Knneely a second time
because I didn't know for sure if Mike mcno was
going to run, but there were rumors out there, so
wanted to wait. Now that he's announced, we'll get him
in here. Then we'll do even a second round. Who knows,
maybe we'll have a roundtable with everyone. The bottom line

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is we need new leadership at the governor's mansion. We've
got to get new leadership in this state. And so
I'm excited looking forward to hear anything. Now let's talk
about other big news. The other big news, obviously, is

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we are now in the middle of a government shutdown,
and boy to both sides say the very opposite things.
Both sides are pointing the finger at each other, Republicans
blaming Democrats, Democrats blaming Republicans, both sides calling each other liars,

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and hear at the hard truths. We're going to get
to the truth now. A government shutdown is bad news, right,
people are not going to get paid, troops not going
to get paid. You know, they'll get their back pay.
But air traffic controllers, all kinds of people out there

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being held hostage because a bunch of career politicians can't
do their job. And I got to tell you something,
when you listen to the Democrats, if you pop in
old YouTube videos or go on X and you listen
to Schumer and Pelosi and all these folks, they used

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to always say that you got to avoid a government
shut down at all costs. And all they needed to
do was pass a continuing resolution that would keep the
status quo for another three weeks. They voted for this,
like Chuck Schumer did in March, but this time one Senator,

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and that would be Fetterman in Pennsylvania, voted for the
continuing resolution. The rest of the Democrats in the Senate,
including Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren did not. They voted
basically for the shutdown. Now, the reason all comes down

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to healthcare. The Republicans are claiming that the Democrats insisted
on getting Medicaid and health care till illegal aliens who
are here illegally. The Democrats are calling that a lie
and saying that no, they're only fighting for health care

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for Americans. We're going to be kicked off because of
the big beautiful bill. Now, where's the truth now under
federal law, because it's called the hard truth. So I'm
going to tell you the truth. Under federal law, illegal
immigrants who are here illegally are not eligible for Medicaid.

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Just by law, they're not. So the Democrats are saying
to you that it's unlawful for illegals to get medicaid.
So Republicans, you're lying, and you're bad and you're evil
because you're lying. Is that true? Are the Democrats accurate? Yes,

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the Democrats are accurate that that's what the law says.
But it's a play on words, as usual. The truth
is somewhere in the middle, as usual. You see, it
is the federal law that an illegal immigrant here illegally
does not qualify for Medicaid. However, there's a provision that

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allows hospitals to be reimburst by Medicaid after they've given
care to illegals who show up at the hospital on
an emergency basis. Right, someone shows up an emergency basis,
you have to treat them. And so it's indirectly a

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way that illegals are getting the benefit of tax dollars money.
But there's another twist to it, and that is Joe
Biden under his administration, basically fudged the rules and gave
so many people asylum temporary status that they would have

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never normally been qualified for. Well, if you're here on
a temporary basis where you are asylum, then you're technically
not here illegally because you're seeking asylum and you've been
placed in this temporary basis by the Biden administration, so

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you could qualify. But the reality is you shouldn't be
here because the asylum seeking is kind of a farce.
It's really not accurate. The Biden administration just gave this
blanket kind of asylum claim to people for any reason.
So technically, the Democrats are being like, look, this is

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what the law says. But the reality is that some
of the healthcare would go to people who are here
who are non citizens, but they're here temporarily on some
legal status of asylum, and therefore that doesn't count, the
Democrats say. But the reality is the Democrats are playing

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to their base. I'll explain it when we get back
as usual. An extreme contingency of the Democratic Party is
taking hold and they're playing to that far left basis.
You listen to the Hard truth Welcome back to the
Hard Truths. I'm John Daton. You can reach me at
John at Hard Truthshow dot com. Also follow me on

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X John E. Deaton and the number one John E.
Daton and the number one on X. We were talking
about the government shutdown. We were talking about before the break,
how everybody's playing a play on words. The reality is
the government's been shut down. I don't see where there's

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going to be any compromise because this is the reality.
Whether you like Donald Trump hate Donald Trump, it's fair
to say that Trump has owned the Democrats. And I
think the Democrats because their base is saying screaming to them,

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do something to stop Trump, do something to stop Trump.
And so they're trying to be seen as fighters. We're
gonna fight Trump, and so if he doesn't basically get
caved into their demands, they're going to shut the government down.

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I think the Democrats overplayed their hand and I think
they made a big mistake. I listened to Hakim Jeffries
and he said that he believes that public sentiment will
turn on President Trump. But I think President Trump is
going to take advantage of the situation and implement things

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that he and people in his administration want to do.
The United States government has been the biggest employer in America.
The average salary in the United States for a private
sector worker is about sixty five thousand dollars. The average

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federal wages salary for federal employee is twice that. It's
about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So when the
government jobs are the highest growing industry for job growth

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and it's outpacing the private sector by leaps and bounds,
you got a problem. Because it costs seven trillion dollars
to run our government each year, but we're only getting
five trillion in tax revenue, so we're a two trillion

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deficit every year. Hence we have a thirty seven trillion
dollar national deficit. We are paying over a trillion dollars
in interest. And so Trump wants to lean out the
federal government. And normally in the lockdown, you furlough folks temporarily,

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you basically lay people off. I think Trump is going
to permanently fire as many as seven hundred and fifty
thousand to one million federal jobs, like just flat out
you're done, You're out of here. I think it's going

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to be IRS, Department of Education, FBI, Department of Energy,
all of these federal agencies I believe are going to
get leaner, especially the IRS, and so I think Trump personally,
I think he's welcoming this. And the Democrats are betting

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that public sentiment will turn on Trump because he is
the president and the Republicans are in control of the Presidency,
the House, and the Senate, so therefore they're going to turn.
But Trump's not running again. See, contrary to what the

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Democrats think. Trump. You know, he has fun with them
with his twenty twenty eight hats, and he loves needling
them and poking them by acting like he's going to
run again. But the reality is unlike his first term
where he immediately wants to be re elected, he doesn't care.

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Plus he's eighty years old, so he's in his element.
I don't think he cares one bet, and I think
he's proven it to the Democrats. I mean, he's like
the troller in chief, very controversial. He put out a
AI video of Schumer and ha King Jefferies and hak

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King Jefferies. He puts a mustache on him in a
sobrero hat, and then it's Trump being a mariachi band
and they're saying things out of their mouth from an
AI video that's not true what they said, but saying
how the Democrats suck and how no one likes them
and all of that stuff, and he's just having fun

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and he's laughing, and they're banking on that he's going
to just cave in, and I don't see that happening,
And so I think we could be looking at certainly
more than the last one. The last time under Trump's
first administration, government shut down for about thirty five days.

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I could see this going two months. You know, the
holidays are coming up, and the question is is public
sentiment really going to turn on Trump. It could. They're
the party in power. That's what the Democrats are banking on.
But you know, every time they banked on something related

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to Trump, it hasn't worked out. They banked on the
law fair, they banked on you know, they would call
him a rapist and a racist and a xenophobe and
all of these things, and it all backfired, and he
got the popular vote, and blacks voted for him at
a higher rate than ever before, Latinos voted for him

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at a higher rate before, So it's almost like their
strategies all ways backfire. And I think that they should
have taken a different approach, I really do. But I
think they succumb to the far left demanding that somehow
they do something. What they should have done is just

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be working to get back the House or the Senate
for the mid terms and understand that you're really playing
in the President Trump's hand if you keep continuing down
this road and so very dangerous. I mean, it's not
a good situation. The government needs to be funded, we

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need to be operating, but we're going to see. This
is going to be very interesting how it plays out.
I don't pretend to know. I just think it's a
very high risk that the Democrats are doing. Now, maybe
I'll eat my words. Maybe hacking Jeffreyes is correct. Maybe
if this they hold out for two months, three months,

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there'll be so much outraged that Trump will cave in.
But again, I don't see him sitting there worrying about
being reelected and he gets to make these permanent changes
lean out the government. I think the Demo crats could
rule the day they do Okay, moving on to some

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other big events happening in the world today. Memphis, the
governor of Tennessee has asked President Trump to send troops
to Memphis. Now this is of course before the lockdown,
and Trump agreed, and so troops are going to go

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to Memphis, which has a high murder rate, high crime rate,
to see if it can have the same impact that
DC did. Now, I want to make it clear in
that scenario, the governor asked for help and President Trump agreed.
And if you remember a month ago, President Trump encouraged

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all the Democrat mayors or Democrat governors of the major
cities that if you have a crime problem, call me
and I'll help you. That's the right way to do it.
Under our law. Trump can send troops to DC because
it's federalized. But if you're going to go into a state,

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let's take Massachusetts. Whether you guys like it or not,
Mora Heally is the governor and she is the commander
in chief of the National Guard here in Massachusetts. That's
just the way it is. And the President, if he's
going to federalize the National Guard and send them into

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Massachusetts or send them into Chicago, you can't do it
under the law and our constitution unless you work with
the governors or there is a real emergency, a real exigency,
And the only thing I could think of Trump doing,

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because he's talking about going to Chicago, and we know
the governor of Chicago of Illinois doesn't want it, and
we know there's going to be litigation. If there's litigation,
I predict that the Democrats would win because the law
is pretty clear. I think Trump was going to have
to rely on the Insurrection Act. He's going to have

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to rely on that here are some gang activity in Chicago,
and that gang activity constitutes an invasion from the cartel,
and that he's therefore going in there to stop that
invasion of cartel members who are poisoning American citizens. Now,

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when I say it like that, it may sound like
that's a plausible thing to do, But the reality is,
first of all, Chicago's so big, it would be so expensive.
It isn't it isn't DC, It's not centralized, it's not Memphis.
Memphis is very centralized. Going into a massive city like
Chicago will be tens of millions of dollars and ought

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to I think Trump would lose legally because you got
to go through the governors. It's this Tenth Amendment, you know,
there is this federalism, States rights. All of those things
come into place. So so far, Trump's doing it the
right way. He's relying on the governor of Tennessee to

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ask for request and then and then he does it.
So we'll see lots of other things going on. Comy
got indicted, James Comy, the former FBI director, for lying
to Congress and obstruction of a Congressional hearing. A lot

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of controversy there. Remember this is Comy who did leak
information one hundred percent leaked information. He claims he did
it after he was director. Trump's meministration claims it's while
he was director. They say they got the evidence. Comi
put himself in this situation. He shouldn't e leaked at all.

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In my opinion, you're listening to the hard truth. I'm
John Deaton. See you next week.