Trump deploys National Guard in D.C. to curb crime

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yesterday, President Trump, he pledged to make DC safe, smart,
and beautiful. This all happened during a White House press conference.
So he signed a memorandum to activate the DC National Guard.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay, and he's doing this because what violence and tomfoolery
is even by what Look Washington, d C. You'll back
me up on this case. It's a pretty crummy.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Place parts of it. Yeah, it could be dangerous.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
I mean that's some saying. Like you get in your
mind these great visuals, which they are. They're incredibly you know,
Lincoln Memorial.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
The Washington Monument, everything, all of these things, right.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
And they're incredible things. And if you've never been to Washington,
d C. I drove by force. Never told you the story.
This is how wasteful our government is. This was one
of the many reasons.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
That when you were on the licensing board.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, this is one of the Rob Kendall origin stories
where they the state made me when I was the
Pharmacy board, when I was the head of the pharmacy board,
they made me go on a trip to Washington, DC.
And I told them, I'm like, there's nothing I'm going
to learn there that is of any value to this
that we're doing here in terms of serving people, like

(01:10):
I'd be far more valuable to the taxpayers to just
sit here and help our understaffed customer service reps answer
phones and process paperwork, you know, because that's who we serve. No,
you have to go, but why because we've always gone.
That doesn't really seem like a a good reason and
be a great use of tax payer money. But I

(01:32):
went by force, got in my automobile and charioted myself
halfway across the country and went for two days in
very brief amount of time. I got to walk around
down there, because, as I said, it was a complete
waste of time.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
When what's that that you went? What year was that?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh that'd been twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
A thing, okay, so that predates the zoom meetings or teams.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Something you could have done online.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
They'd have telephones back then, though they did have for
any information that would have been would have been pertinent.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
What time of a year was it, Oh it was fall.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Ish late, No, it was it was some late summer ish,
it was.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Past the cherry blossom season.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, again like just but the point is it was
it was fine. But you're very aware when you're down there,
there's certain areas, certain alleyys you ought not be turning in.
And as it has been more than a decade since
I've been there, I'm only guessing it's gotten progressively worse, just.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
A little bit better.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Trump cited total lawlessness with youth gangs on ATVs and
entire neighborhoods that have emergency curfews. He said his efforts
are going to include removing trash, graffiti, repairing broken marble panels,
and cleaning up the homeless.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Okay, okay, but but does the federal government do anything?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Is what are we gonna have the National Guard clean?
Cleaning up the homeless?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
He said that the one hundred to two hundred troops
are going to support law enforcement with administrative, logistical, and
physical rest.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
To the babysitters. How did that go in Iraq? The
National Guard as babies? Just Look, it's fine if you're
going to say a single event like oh, I don't know,
say the riots of twenty twenty. If you know there's
going to in a moment or a day or days
or whatever, be the potential for mass chaos and calamity,
and you're saying, hey, we're shutting everything down like should

(03:27):
have been done here in twenty twenty. That's okay, no
problem with it. But they're not designed to be infinite
baby sitters. And what does that say about your city?
You're not addressing the root cause, because what sort of
visual is that, Hey, come see us, it's great here,

(03:48):
it's so safe. We got to run out the National
Guard to keep things under control. The visual, it's horrible.
And until you address the root cause, whether it's there
or whether it's here, this is just some bizarro band
aid that may or may not even actually help.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Said troops are going to work alongside DC police and
also federal law enforcement. And everybody is saying, but crime
is being reported to be down in DC and the
Jenine Pierrot, a former Fox Yes she had a crime.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I got in trouble for saying she was the mouthy
lady on Fox News. Yeah, somebody mad at me about.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
It was she had a comment about that when she
was asked about crime being down in DC?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Why now? Because you know it may be down, but
the question is always down from what if we had
the fourth largest homicide rate, highest homicide rate in the
country two years ago, all of a sudden, it goes down,
people want to pat themselves on the back. Now, way
took don into crime victims. I was just at a
college a couple of weeks ago where I had photos

(04:52):
of young kids who were victims of homicides of shootings,
and it happens over and over again. It's not okay
because it's down from last year. It's bad. This is
a nation's capital. This is a shining city on the hill.
We're not going to tolerate it. People are afraid to
come to this city.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
But what is the city now. It's the home of
a cesspool of rotten, corrupt people who regularly put themselves
and their own interest ahead of the American people. That's
what that city does, That's who it houses. So don't
give me this moral high horse, bs when that's the
core of your existence is bloated, inefficient, ineffective government that

(05:34):
regularly rewards donors and lobbyists and power over the people
that it's elected to serve. Don't give me some moral
high horse argument about how we must do this or
we must do that on behalf of it. You're doing
that on behalf of yourself.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So Donald Trump gave a little story about something that
his father told him when he was young.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
City. You know, my father always used to tell me
I had a wonderful father, very smart, and he used
to say, so, when you walk into a restaurant and
you see a dirty front door, don't go in because
if the front door is dirty, the kitchens dirty. Also,
same thing with the capital. If where capital is dirty,

(06:15):
our whole country is dirty and they don't respect us.
So it's a very good question.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
An it sounds to me like he's using the uh,
you know, the Rudy Giuliani move of the broken window,
like clean it up and then the crime will go away.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
That's fine that, there's nothing wrong with that, or pressing
for a better, more efficient nation's capital. But as long
as there is an element of local control about that,
you're not going to solve that. You have to have
all hands on deck, all hands on board, everybody moving.
I always heard it described as everybody moving with their
hand on the football in the same direction, and you're

(06:51):
not You're not going to have that. I mean, you
can spin it back here with that budget meeting last
night with the City of Indianapolis one point seven billion,
and it's not going to make a damn bit of difference.
They could be three billion. It wouldn't make any difference
because you don't have the same people pulling in the
same position for the same desired outcome. And thus, you know,

(07:13):
Braun couldn't loose the National Guard here. It wouldn't make
the city any better. I mean, sure maybe for pockets
in moments, but you can't have about twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, and if a bunch
of them are doing administrative work anyway, it's just it's
it's a societal thing, it's a governmental thing, and it's
a belief system thing, and it's just we don't have

(07:39):
the will in most of our major metropolitan cities now
because they've been overrun by crazy people and a lot
of the decent people have gotten out to the political
will to fix the thing.