The Many Successes of Trump's Second Term

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only today and tomorrow, the Friday edition. But then hopefully
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Big story yesterday, which I wrote actually now two columns
about at heartlandpost.com.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
The Heartland Post, our brand new digital media platform. initiative.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
It is the biggest site in conservative politics in Wisconsin,
one of the very biggest in the Midwest. I am
so proud of what our staff has built in a
short amount of time. But of course, the biggest political
story related to the gubernatorial race was the first Marquette
University Law School poll. I found it ironic that I

(02:02):
was unable to do this.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
But you know what? Before we get into this, The
fundamentals of.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
This race are exactly where we thought they were going
to be. David Crowley is a stronger candidate than Francesca Hong,
but that's only because Francesca Hong may have been the
single worst candidate that Democrats ever entertained running as a
major party nominee in this state for Senate, for governor

(02:32):
for anything, really. I mean, she was a remarkably bad candidate.
David Crowley was so bad that he had to drop
out of the race because against her, he was polling
at about five to six percent just a couple of
weeks ago. People forget that, that somehow David Crowley is

(02:55):
this unstoppable juggernaut.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
And look at this.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
The Marquette poll shows him up five points among likely voters.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, but this race is tied among registered voters.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
In that Marquette University Law School poll, of course, the
media is running with the likely voter number. It was
a remarkably small sample for a Marquette poll, about 900
voters of those. likely voters who answer a couple of
follow-up questions about whether or not they're actually going to vote.

(03:29):
The person on the phone conducting the poll will try
to figure out, okay, are you very likely to vote?
It is no surprise that Democrats are much more likely
to vote at this stage of the game because they
are locked in. They are furious that Donald Trump, the
supposed furore, of the United States is back in power,

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that he won the 2024 presidential election. This is a
well-known phenomenon in politics that the out party, the party
that does not win a presidential election typically does very,
very well in the midterm two years later because their
voters are so ticked off about the loss. The party
that controls the White House typically does very poorly because, A,

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people get tired. of politicians in this country.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I believe it's a phrase long attributed to Mark Twain.
Politicians and dirty diapers must be changed often and for
the exact same reason. You can figure out what he
meant by that. That's the American sentiment about elections. This
is why we have a cyclical nature. The pendulum swings

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one way, the pendulum swings the other way. We never
go too far in one direction, and when we do,
the pendulum swings back very, very hard in the other way.
This was why, after President Obama's first major thing, after
the trillion-dollar stimulus he did in 2009, was to fundamentally

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take over American and fundamentally change and fundamentally ruin American
health care. What happened in 2010? For the first time
in decades, Massachusetts was represented by a Republican in the Senate.
Special election following the death of Ted Kennedy in the
summer of 2009 was actually won by a Republican. Now

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that November, of course, things course corrected and we ended
up with Elizabeth Warren. But in the 2010 midterms, there
was a Republican tsunami. It wasn't a red wave. It
was a red tsunami because the pendulum swung back the
other way because there was a huge backlash to Obama
in 2014 as well. Big, big Republican year. In 2018,

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big Democrat year because Democrats were furious about Trump. However,
In 2022, and I believe again in 2026, we are
not going to see a massive wave. We all anticipated
a huge red wave in 2022, but because of redistricting and,
dare I say, gerrymandering by Democrat states, Republican gains in

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the House were limited. And because Republicans were so convinced,
myself included, I fully admit that, Based on my theory
of the cyclical nature of American politics, I thought Republicans
were going to just dominate in 2022. They did not.
Republicans were overconfident and they ran poor candidates. Most notably,

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Herschel Walker in Georgia. Herschel Walker lost a race that
should never have been lost. It was because I think
they're still finding four years later, more and more of
Herschel Walker's illegitimate children.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know this, but having a whole bunch of illegitimate
children in the Bible Belt does not play well amongst
Republican voters. Democrats, I believe, did largely the same thing
in 2026. Here in Wisconsin, they were able to suppress
their baser urges to elect the unelectable socialist Francesca Hong,

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and that was due in part to because of a
long-standing and wide-ranging effort by the Democratic Party to rig
their own primary. I have been documenting this for months.
And yes, they absolutely did rig their primary. It had
nothing to do with the flash drives in Milwaukee. It
had everything to do with the fact that they actually
compiled a dossier on one of their own candidates, Mandela Barnes,

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starting from even before he announced his candidacy and actually
dropped it right before the election. in order to force
him out of the race. They forced every other candidate
not named David Crowley out of the race that they
could force out and left in a woman in Kelda
Roys who served as sort of a stalking horse for

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Crowley and took votes away from Francesca Hong in precisely
the place she needed to run up the score at
Dane County. All of this is to say that Democrats
have an institutional advantage heading into this midterm election, heading
into this gubernatorial election.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm not going to deny that.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
But there's something you need to know about polling in August,
particularly the Marquette poll.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
It's not just that it's wildly inaccurate.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's not just that it always seems to be skewed
towards Democrats. It's that the worst misses are of the
market poll in its 10-year history were being unable to
account for the exact voters who comprise Tom Tiffany's most
loyal base the poll released yesterday does show David Crowley

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with a five-point advantage 49 percent to 44 percent amongst
likely voters this race is tied amongst registered voters now
what accounts for this well there is a huge enthusiasm
gap Democrats say they are much more likely to vote
than Republicans. However, that enthusiasm gap is not actually as

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high as it was in 2022, when Democrats said they
were more likely than Republicans, far more likely than they
are this year, to actually vote in the November election.
This is why, if you are absolutely certain to vote,
you're marked as a likely voter. If more Democrats than
Republicans say they're likely to vote well, then yes, obviously

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a poll is going to be skewed.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
It's not that it's intentionally skewed, but it is.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Historically, the Marquette poll has been skewed towards Democrats because
of this exact phenomenon and in fact the polls director
charles franklin has said this on multiple occasions trump's two
elections were our biggest failures franklin said it turned out

(10:16):
that pro-trump voters, many of them blue-collar and rural, responded
to surveys at lower rates than other voters, possibly out
of mistrust. In fact, that was what sparked the massive
polling miss in 2016 when Hillary Clinton was overwhelmingly favored
to win that election, even on the day of the election.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
It was one of the biggest surprises.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
In fact, I would argue the single biggest surprise in
the history of American presidential elections, even bigger than Dewey
defeats Truman, because nobody.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Thought that Trump had any chance.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
In August of 2016, it wasn't just that the Marquette
poll missed the Trump phenomenon. It actually missed the rematch
between Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson as well. Johnson was
elected in that Republican wave year of 2010, defeating Feingold.
And in August of 2016, very first poll of the

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general election cycle, Feingold was favored to win. He was
up by nine points. So too was Hillary Clinton. Nine points.
It wasn't just that election that the August Marquette poll
got phenomenally wrong. In 2020, Joe Biden was up on

(11:36):
Trump by six points. He ended up winning by just
over a half a percent. By the way, in 2016,
as everybody knows, Trump famously beat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin
by just under one percent of the vote. There was
the recount. Because, you know, back then it was not
a threat to democracy to question election results. You could

(11:59):
openly question election results in Wisconsin without being called a
traitor or a threat to democracy in our way of life.
But Johnson actually beat Feingold by 3.3 points.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
He led Trump.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, Johnson was just phenomenally popular in Wisconsin and
the poll missed it. Well, Franklin acknowledged that he missed
that poll. but he missed again in 2020. It wasn't
as bad of a miss, but Biden only won by
about a half a percent, whereas the August poll and
pretty much every poll throughout the cycle showed that Biden

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was going to win by five or six. Franklin said,
one of the big things about this is we missed
Trump voters despite looking for them. They are a part
of the public who, over the last 8 to 12 years,
have become very distrustful of government, public affairs, including polling,
and it has affected the outcome. Or, Charles, love you, buddy,

(12:57):
but maybe, maybe, don't blame the voters that you can't reach.
Either try harder to reach them. or weight your poll,
assuming that you're not going to get enough Trump voters.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
But it wasn't just Trump voters.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
And this is the critical thing that you've got to
know about why these polls have been so wildly off
and wildly skewed towards Democrats early. After Mandela Barnes, who
remember was so bad that Democrats compiled a dossier on
him to try to stop him from running for governor.

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And then when he did run and they needed him
to get out, they dropped that dossier about him behaving
inappropriately around women to try to force him out of
the race. It worked. Crowley was the guy. He narrowly
defeats Francesco Juan. Democrats did the exact same thing for
Mandela Barnes. forcing his three opponents in the 2022 Senate

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primary out of the race just before the August primary election.
He came out of that, and the first post-primary poll
showed him up seven points over Ron Johnson. Seven.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Johnson won that race by a point.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now, why is it that the Marquette poll, which has
oversampled Republicans, for example, in 2018, they had Tammy Baldwin
over Leah Vukmir following a bruising Republican primary with our
friend Kevin Nicholson, regular fill-in host here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show. The post-primary August poll showed Tammy Baldwin up three.

(14:36):
She ended up winning by 11. That same poll actually
showed Governor Walker tied with challenger Tony Evers. Evers won
by just over a point. So sometimes they will oversample Republicans.
But when it is a MAGA Republican specifically, and Johnson
is seen in this state as Trump's closest ally, when

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it is a MAGA Republican, when it is those voters
who are most likely to turn out and be the
difference makers in an election. The Marquette poll, and I
posit to you that every other poll, which has consistently
showed David Crowley up four points in this race, they
are unable to poll them. Now, that doesn't mean that

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those voters are going to actually show up in November.
Those voters are also notorious for only showing up when
Trump himself is on the ballot. But if Tom Tiffany
can mobilize them, and remember, he does represent most of
northern Wisconsin in Congress. This is his home field. You
expect him to do very well amongst these voters. I

(15:44):
think the people who are dooming and blackpilling over the
fact that he's down five when Ron Johnson was down seven,
Donald Trump was down nine, Ron Johnson was down nine
in this exact same poll are missing the point. That
poll also shows, and this I think proves my point
beyond any reasonable doubt that This same poll, the Marquette

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poll released yesterday, shows independents breaking for David Crowley. I
had to double check this to make sure it wasn't
a typo. Independents are breaking for David Crowley 53 to 16.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Does that sound right to you?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
It doesn't to me.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Is it possible it's accurate?

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
What does it actually very likely mean? We'll discuss when
the Dan O'Donnell Show comes back in just three minutes.
In David Crowley's thoroughly, thoroughly dysfunctional Milwaukee County makes a
court appearance today. The top deputy to the Milwaukee Court Commissioner,
Sumatria Matthews, charged with keeping a drug house and along

(16:57):
with her husband and her husband's son running a staggering
amount of fentanyl. Now she was in court. We will
have the details coming up later on in the Dan
O'Donnell Show. Other court news, the Lindsay Clancy case is
now in the hands of the jury. Jurors have been
sent home for today, so no verdict today. After weeks

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and weeks and weeks of testimony, closing arguments gave way
to jury instructions, and the jury now has that case.
We will discuss a little more about that. The bombshell
testimony in the prosecution's rebuttal case that I couldn't believe
was not the focus of their main argument, their main prosecution,

(17:44):
may well be exactly what gets a murder conviction against
this woman who very clearly was not suffering from postpartum psychosis,
all that coming up on the Dan O'Donnell show. So
the Marquette University Law School poll has done exactly what
Democrats were hoping it was going to do.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I had the day off from the radio show yesterday.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
I had to take care of some personal errands. That
just took longer than I thought they would, but I
was on social media. Predictable people, oh, David Crowley is
going to Tom Tiffany. It's like Eeyores.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
You are all Eeyore.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Fitting. Did you know the voice of Eeyore sadly passed away?
It wasn't just Dolly Parton or Tim Curry. They say
these things happen in threes. Peter Cullen, he voiced Eeyore.
in the Winnie the Pooh cartoons for Disney for many,
many years, as well as Optimus Prime of the Transformers,

(18:47):
passed away at the age of 85 yesterday. So in
his honor and memory, I am going to say, please
don't be an Eeyore over this Marquette University Law School poll.
It's actually a lot better than you think it is.
and I am not trying to whistle past the graveyard here,
a candidate being down five points amongst likely voters is

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not good. But there is a good reason that this
is happening, and it's because as the polls director admits,
he is unable to reach the very voters who are
very likely going to turn out in much bigger numbers
for Tom Tiffany than they did for, say, Eric Hovde

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or Tim Michaels. Michaels, the Michaels Corporation, is in Milwaukee.
He lives in Waukesha County, southeast Wisconsin. Eric Hovde has
a place in Milwaukee. His company, Madison, both were sort
of seen as, let's face it, I love both of
these guys.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
I think they're both great.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
They're both seen as carpetbaggers. That Tim Michaels didn't actually
live in Wisconsin and that Eric Hovde was actually in California.
Tom Tiffany is undeniably Wisconsin. He is undeniably Northern Wisconsin.
Northern Wisconsin, Western Wisconsin, pretty much every part of Wisconsin

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except for Milwaukee is highly suspicious and distrustful of Milwaukee.
Not the people, but the problems that are well-known and
well-documented on this show in Milwaukee. They don't want Milwaukee
politicians running their state. Now you have a Milwaukee politician...

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running against a guy from northern Wisconsin. Who do you
think northern Wisconsin is going to show up for? Now,
there aren't as many total votes in rural Wisconsin, northern Wisconsin,
western Wisconsin, the rural parts of even southeast Wisconsin, Dane County,

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the Green Bay area. Those are very important parts of
a Democratic, or excuse me, a Republican path to victory.
But oftentimes, those votes aren't where you want them to
be on election night because maybe we don't totally want

(21:19):
a Milwaukee guy running this state.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
The Marquette Poll.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Shockingly showed I was actually wrong about that independent number.
I said independents were going for David Crowley, 55 percent
to 16 percent, 53 percent. I said it's actually 55
percent to 16 with 30 percent undecided, 55 to 6.
You never see a split like that. You would expect

(21:48):
that sort of split among Democrats, not independents. What that
tells me is there were a whole lot more Democrat-leaning
independents who were polled in this survey and, more significantly,
a whole lot less people from Tom Tiffany's base of
support in northern and western Wisconsin, and that's the reason

(22:13):
that likely voters were going for David Crowley. This, I believe,
is the reason that early polls, not just Marquette, and
I swear I'm not picking on the Marquette Law School poll,
but this is the gold standard of polling. Marquette is
the best at polling Wisconsin. Wisconsin is notoriously tough to poll,

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especially rural and western Wisconsin. It is also notoriously tough
to turn out voters in northern and western Wisconsin. If, however,
Tiffany is able to do so, and it would have
been a whole lot easier to turn out those folks
running against Francesca Hong when your argument is simply, do
you want a socialist psychopath.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Running your state?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now the argument is, do you want dysfunctional Milwaukee running
your state? Do you want the guy who celebrated with
a cake? He celebrated with a cake signing the bill.
that nearly doubled Milwaukee County's sales taxes. Do you want
the guy who, in five of the six years he's

(23:19):
been Milwaukee County executive, dramatically raised the property tax levy
and is still running a $ 161 million budget deficit? New
figures from the Department of Revenue came out this afternoon
showing that because of larger-than-expected tax collections to the tune
of $ 450 million. Wisconsin is now projected to run a

(23:44):
$ 3 billion budget surplus. Thank you very much, Republicans in
the state legislature. Yes, Tony Evers had very little to
do with any of this. I'm going to explain in
the five o'clock hour. And also, I found something very
interesting about David Crowley and his tax policy and maybe

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why he was cutting a cake and celebrating making things
less affordable for everyone in his county. That's coming up
in the 5 o'clock hour. Coming up next here on
the Dan O'Donnell Show, the garage controversy. Do you realize
this bar is now shutting down? for two weeks because

(24:30):
it's don't play rap music list went viral on TikTok.
We'll discuss. We are following some breaking news and we
will get to the discussion on The Garage shutting down
for two weeks. It's a bar on Brady Street in
Milwaukee because they don't want to play rap music. This

(24:55):
apparently is evidence of racism. So I am now going
to go to every urban bar in the city of
Milwaukee and demand that they play the Choose in Texas song,
or I am going to file a racial discrimination lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
We'll get to that soon.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Josh Jacobs, Packers running back, now formally charged with two
Class A misdemeanors stemming from an incident May 23rd at
his home in Hobart. This from our site, the Heartland Post.
Prosecutors charged Jacobs with one count of battery and one
count of criminal damage to property. Each carries a maximum

(25:38):
penalty of nine months in jail and a $ 10, 000 fine
if he's convicted. Now, Jacobs was arrested May 26th, and
Hobart Lawrence Police initially booked him on five counts, including
very serious felonies. Like felony strangulation and suffocation. Now, the

(25:58):
district attorney's office did not file that felony or other
misdemeanor counts that were originally referred. And there was a
whole lot of confusion at the time about what the
status of this case was because. Jacobs was released without
any charges. It was unknown whether the investigation was going

(26:20):
to go any further. Typically, what happens in situations like
that is the complaining witness, the alleged victim in the case,
goes back to the suspect. and stops cooperating with authorities.
In a statement, District Attorney David Lassay says his office
sought to ensure a fair and complete review of available evidence,

(26:43):
some of which only recently became available to our office
due to significant ongoing forensic efforts by law enforcement. What
this suggests to me is that they were able to
piece together a case without the girlfriend, fiance, whoever she is, cooperating.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
According to the criminal complaint, officers were.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Dispatched at about 8.37 a.m. after a 911 call of
a disturbance at Jacobs' home. The complaint alleges Jacobs and
his girlfriend argued over cell phones, a physical struggle followed,
and that Jacobs caused bodily harm and damaged the woman's phone.
She told police she had a lump on her head.

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Jacobs spent a night in jail after turning himself in.
He was released the next day while prosecutors continued the investigation.
He's scheduled for an initial court appearance November 17th. A
statement issued on Jacobs' behalf through a spokesperson. The district
attorney has reviewed evidence and elected to file misdemeanor charges

(27:51):
against Josh that do not include domestic violence, and the
allegations will be addressed in court, not the media. Now,
the other aspect of this, and yes, obviously the most
significant thing is that justice is served. We don't want
to focus on football over the very serious issue of

(28:14):
potential domestic violence, but let's face it, this is a
star running back for the Green Bay Packers, and the
NFL season starts a week from Wednesday. Still not sure
I like the NFL season starting on a Wednesday after
Labor Day. It's going to be a Super Bowl rematch.
The Super Bowl winner traditionally hosts the NFL opener, and

(28:35):
this one's going to be A rematch, Seattle Seahawks against
the New England Patriots on Wednesday night. And you know
why they're doing that, right? So they can have another
nationally televised game on Thursday. That's it exactly. In fact,
we're going to see. It would not shock me, folks,
coming out of a bye, if it is going to
be commonplace for teams to play on Wednesday night football.

(28:58):
You are going to see the expansion of Wednesday night
football very, very, very quickly. Yeah, there will probably be
a Tuesday night football, too. You're right. You're absolutely right.
They just need to go... Eric says there's going to
be Tuesday night football, too.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
It's doable. You can do it coming out of the bye.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
There just needs to be negotiation with the NFL Players
Association because they would basically... There are teams that would
just be giving up their week off. You'd probably have
to go back to a double bye, which I don't
think anybody wants to do, although the NFL, extending that season,
if they can... exchange one more regular season game, which

(29:39):
they want to. they're going to go to 18 games.
It's going to happen. They're not going to stay with
a 17 game schedule. They're not going back to 16.
They're going to take away another preseason game and they're
going to add a regular season game. They'll go back
to a double buy and the NFL season will stretch
into like mid-March. The Super Bowl this year is on

(30:00):
Valentine's Day. Watch. By 2030, it'll be on St. Patrick's Day.
You'll be playing a 20-game season, three buys. It's because
NFL football and, to a lesser extent, college football, those
are the only things that people are watching on TV
in huge numbers anymore. And as a result, advertising on

(30:21):
those games is is incredibly valuable. So the NFL is
going to weigh in. Packers are starting the season in
a couple of days. They're starting, I believe, two weeks,
a week from Sunday, the week after Labor Day weekend.
They open up the NFL regular season. Yeah, that would

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be Sunday the 13th. They are going to have their
star running back. But at some point, and it might
not come this season, it is entirely possible that he
is suspended. Because there's one thing that the NFL does
take incredibly seriously, and that is domestic violence incidents. Spokesman

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for the league, Brian McCarthy, says the league has been
closely monitoring all developments in the matter, which remains under review.
Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said this week the team
has prepared for the possibility of a suspension, which would
be very, very unlikely in week one. In fact, it's

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just not going to happen because you're going to wait
for the disposition of the criminal case. The earliest I
think you would see a potential suspension would be November, December,
unless Jacobs cuts a deal, says, OK, let's just get
it over with. I'll take a two game suspension to
start the season and let's just go. Packers open up

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the regular season on Sunday, September 13th in Minnesota. 325
afternoon kickoff. They are taking on the Vikings. You're listening
to the Dan O'Donnell Point about NFL games increasingly being
played on Wednesdays. Do you know what team is playing

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in a game on Wednesday, November 26th, or 25th, Thanksgiving Eve?
Green Bay Packers, they are traveling to Los Angeles to
take on a team that many consider to be the
Super Bowl favorite, Los Angeles Rams, after a blockbuster offseason
trade that brought them the reigning NFL Defensive Player of

(32:31):
the Year title. miles garrett uh big breaking news for
those who missed it josh jacobs packers running back formally
charged with two misdemeanors his attorney said in a statement
neither of these charges are related to domestic violence and
you know why he put this statement out why he
worded it exactly how he did let's go this from

(32:52):
the uh the heartland post The Brown County District Attorney
has reviewed evidence and elected to file misdemeanor charges against
Josh that do not include domestic violence. The allegations will
be addressed in court and not in the media.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Mr.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Jacobs respects the District Attorney's office and the process it followed.
Why did he point out immediately that these were not
domestic violence charges? Because he is trying to minimize the
impact from the NFL. He is trying to mitigate the
possibility of of a long suspension because of the severity

(33:28):
of domestic violence charges. You might remember the Ray Rice
incident from years ago, the Baltimore Ravens running back. There
was surveillance video from a hotel elevator. He punched his girlfriend, fiance,
knocked her unconscious, and it was just shocking. shocking video.

(33:49):
And we don't have anything like that that has gone
viral and caused a huge embarrassment for the NFL where
they needed to crack down with respect to Josh Jacobs.
But ever since the Ray Rice incident, there was, was
it Nick Chubb who also had a domestic violence? It

(34:11):
was a Cleveland Browns running back. I thought it was Chubb.
Of course, there was the horrific murder. Ray Carruth, years ago,
the Carolina Panthers wide receiver, actually murdered and severely badly
injured his child. He murdered the girlfriend or the wife,
badly injured his child. So this is something that the

(34:32):
NFL will take very, very seriously. Time now to name
the unhinged liberal of the day, and it is Michigan's
Debbie Dingle. Debbie Dingell.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Now, that's not the punchline, that her name is Dingell.
John Dingell, longtime congressman.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Widow.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Debbie is now a congresswoman, and she is very, very
tired of talking about Hassan Piker, the Islamic supremacist who
hates America and is glad that 9-11 happened.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
I am done, so don't any reporter ask me again
about Hassan Piker. It's not what November is about.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
The Republicans are trying to make it. They're trying to
divide us.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
And we've got to stop letting them try.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
To divide us.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
I don't agree with Hassan Piker on a lot of stuff.
And I really don't agree with him on some of
the woman things he said.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
And I'm still trying.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
To figure out, is it the reason he exercises and
looks buff is why he has so many followers?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Wait, did she just end that by saying, She is
kind of thirsting for Hassan Piker. He looks buff, and
that's why he has so many followers. Is she getting
all hot and bothered thinking about the terrorist sympathizer? So
don't ask Debbie Dingell about Hassan Piker, reporters. That's not

(36:06):
what this election is about. How many times has a
Republican had to answer questions for something Rush Limbaugh said
over the decades, that the late, great Maharishi was on
the air. Could you imagine if Rush Limbaugh said America

(36:29):
deserved 9-11 in any context whatsoever, his career would have
been over. This election is absolutely about Hassan Piker. It's
absolutely about Francesca Hong and El-Sayed, the Islamic supremacist Senate
candidate in Michigan. It is about the DSA. It is

(36:51):
about the rise of radical Islam within the accepted ranks
of Democrat leaders and Democrat supporters. It is about the
radicalization of this party. It is about the rise of
a movement within this party that that is now consuming
the party from inside out that hates this country that

(37:13):
openly says it's going to just discard the Constitution and
if and when it ever gets power in this country
it is going to tear down the foundations of what
has made us the greatest place to ever exist on
planet Earth and to replace it with yeah the failed

(37:34):
Soviet Union so yes Debbie I think ultimately It is
about Hassan Piker.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
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Speaker 7 (38:11):
Good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'm Dave Michaels.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
Iranian government officials meeting with other leaders in the region
today as the U.S. continues to ramp up economic pressure
in their ongoing conflict. Fox's Trey Yinkst.

Speaker 8 (38:23):
The Qatari prime minister is in Tehran today for meetings
with Iranian officials. He is focused on exploring avenues for de-escalation,
according to the Qatari foreign ministry. We do know this
comes as President Trump told Al Jazeera, quote, the U.S.
is achieving a very big victory, but the war will
continue for as long as necessary. Another report crossed today

(38:43):
of an oil tanker being hit with an unknown projectile
in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. The International
Waterway remains a location of tension as the region and
the U.S.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Is still overseeing vessels through the southern route.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
A 77-year-old is facing charges after a deadly crash on
the northwest side of Milwaukee last night.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
This happened around eight fifteen last night near north and
finlayson milwaukee police tell us the seventy seven-year-old was driving
when he hit a seventy five-year-old pedestrian as they were
crossing the street officers arrested the driver and the district
attorney's office is now reviewing charges.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Box six is called death of all and police a
fifty-year-old heartland woman who falsely reported being held captive at
gunpoint last night that led to a large police response
as well as local shelter in place orders and a
high school lockdown has been arrested she's being booked into
the waukesha county jail for one count of swatting and

(39:39):
one count of disorderly conduct checking the holiday automotive of
fond du lac sports scoreboard brewers wrap up their series
tonight against the mets.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
First pitch 6 10 in new york From the.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin News Center, I'm Dave Michaels.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Apologies to the recently retired Nick Chubb.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
It wasn't him.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
It was Kareem Hunt who played with Nick Chubb for
many years. He was actually with the Kansas City Chiefs
when he was arrested for domestic violence. It was the
Kareem Hunt incident. It was the Ray Rice incident, coincidentally,
both of them running backs like Josh Jacobs, who is
charged right now with two misdemeanors stemming from a May

(40:18):
23rd domestic violence incident. I've got a listener on the
Carpetland USA Flooring Center talking text line saying, is this
just creative language by Jacobs' representative, his attorney, saying, well,
he wasn't charged with domestic violence since they didn't live together.
It's just regular old violence incidents.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
No, it is.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
He was not hit with the most serious charges. There
is a domestic violence enhancer on an assault charge that
will bring about more severe penalties if you're hit with it.
So he got battery. He did not get the battery
domestic violence enhancer. So there is not a separate charge.

(41:03):
Under Wisconsin law for domestic violence, it's an enhancer. It's
a penalty enhancer. You can also get criminal damage to
property with the domestic violence enhancer. So what the referee,
what the district attorney, yes, instead of getting a criminal charge,
he just got a penalty flag. And he is going

(41:24):
to be assessed a 15-yard domestic violence penalty.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
No.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
What the district attorney, I think, determined is that the
evidence was not sufficient for a DV enhancer. I don't
know why, since it's very complicated. that the two were
in some sort of domestic relationship. And no, you don't
actually need to be living with somebody to have a

(41:50):
domestic violence. And it doesn't even need to be a
significant other. You can have a domestic violence enhancer if
you're beating a child, beating a parent. It's a way
of saying we treat these more seriously because of the
nature of the victim. Somebody who is potentially not able

(42:11):
to defend themselves. There is some constitutional question about that,
by the way. If there is not a separate charge
for domestic violence, which there isn't in Wisconsin law, why
do we have a domestic violence penalty enhancer? Why is it,
let's say, I'm really mad about how a show goes

(42:32):
and I go home and beat my wife, but I'm
also mad about how the show went and i'd beat
the guy responsible my producer eric why would it be
more serious why would the law take it more seriously
that i'd beat my wife and not air well presumably

(42:54):
eric would be able to defend himself and we as
a society said no it is such a bad thing
to be uh... violent towards a spouse violent towards a
significant other that we think that should enhance the penalty
but generally speaking two similarly situated victims who are the
victims of the same crime should not have their situations

(43:19):
treated differently by the law. So that's a little constitutional
lesson that probably nobody asked for in DV cases here
in Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
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(44:20):
Trump White House today. It is no longer Lake Ontario.
It is Lake America.

Speaker 10 (44:27):
We're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario,
effective immediately, to Lake America. That's going to take place
right now as I sign the order. Do you have
anything to say about.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
It, Matt? Yes, sir.

Speaker 11 (44:42):
So this is a straightforward but important executive order. It
directs Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to
update the Geographic Names Information Service to reflect that the
lake once known as Lake Ontario will from this day
forward be known as Lake America.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
This is a lake that has geography.

Speaker 11 (45:00):
Most of its volume in the united states uh... the
deepest parts of the lake set in the united states
territory so uh... this will reflect that this is an american.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Lake thank you president trump signing that executive order in
a ceremony today it started out as what people thought
was a troll a lull a joke a gag now
lake ontario is officially like the gulf of america lake
america Is the American instead of the Atlantic Ocean next?

Speaker 4 (45:32):
One can only hope.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Now, why did President Trump do this? Was he trying
to send a message to Canada as the two countries
are locked in a bitter battle over trade?

Speaker 2 (45:47):
He said no.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
No message.

Speaker 10 (45:50):
As you know, Canada has been ripping us off for
a long time on trade, very sadly.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Even the military. You know, we defend Canada for nothing.
We don't get anything.

Speaker 10 (45:58):
They don't pay us to defend Canada, but we defend Canada.
And they understand that. As an example, we bought icebreakers.
They'd like to use them. We have 11 brand-new icebreakers
coming in. They'd like to use the icebreakers. They don't
pay for anything. And they want to be treated like
a state, but they're not a state. But they want
to be treated like they're a state. And so we

(46:19):
just can't do that anymore. We lose, on average, over
the last 15 years, $ 60 billion a year carrying Canada.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
So we just can't do it anymore. We love the
people of Canada.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
I don't think their representatives do an appropriate job.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Maybe they'll change. I really don't know. It doesn't make
much difference.

Speaker 10 (46:37):
But we can't let the whole Canadian thing that's been
going on for decades, and it has to come to
a stop.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
President Trump said, in fact, that Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney,
and before him, Justin Trudeau, have been the most difficult,
most bitter trade partners slash geopolitical frenemies that he's ever
dealt with, believe it or not.

Speaker 10 (47:07):
The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They're nasty people.
They charge our farmers 400 percent tariffs. They've been doing
it for a long time. And I had them figured
out in my first term, and I did some pretty
strong things and had it getting pretty good. And then
the election was rigged, and now I'm coming back and
doing it the way it– and finishing the job.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
But they treat us very badly. Canada treats us very badly.

Speaker 10 (47:31):
I would say that of all countries, as you know,
we have President Xi coming in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
We have a lot of– we deal with a lot
of people.

Speaker 10 (47:38):
People oftentimes– they'll ask me, who's the worst to deal
with on trade?

Speaker 4 (47:44):
And I say, that's easy– Canada. They are the worst.
And they feel entitled. And just we can't have that.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
That, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Now,
a lot of people, I think, heading into the midterm
election cycle, believe it or not, folks, the midterm election
is in 68 days. That is hard to believe. It's
also hard to believe that it's August 27th and that

(48:13):
school starts for most kids on Tuesday. A lot of
kids in private school, they're back already this week. In fact,
I was talking with a friend of mine today who
just sent his daughter off to college and she started
on Monday as well. I think most of Wisconsin's universities,
I believe public and private are all starting next week,

(48:34):
either Monday or Tuesday or, uh, Do the state schools start.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
After Labor Day?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Labor Day is as late as it possibly can be
this year. I think they all start September 1st. Okay,
Whitewater starts September 2nd, says Eric. I forget, are you
a Whitewater alum? That was just the first one you
checked out. That was a random one to check out.
I would have gone with like Madison or typed in

(49:03):
State University.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
He goes, UW-Whitewater.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Whitewater is a fantastic school. It's a wonderful school. We
love UW-Whitewater. Yeah, Dave Michaels, distinguished Whitewater alum. My alma mater,
Marquette University, starts on Monday. And I believe, yeah, Madison
is also the second. So I'm going to take a
wild guess. The state schools all start on September 2nd.

(49:27):
Most public schools, K-12 in Wisconsin, starts September 1st. Yeah,
Labor Day being as late as it possibly can be,
that kind of screws everything up because traditionally in Wisconsin...
You start after Labor Day. It's the Tuesday after Labor Day. Well,
this week or this year, have fun, kids. Two straight

(49:47):
four-day weeks to start your school. Talk about easing into it.
And I don't know if your kids are anything like mine.
They have been sleeping until like noon or later most
days this summer. And it's actually interesting. It's actually interesting.
I was talking to, of all people, my 16-year-old son.

(50:08):
We were, yesterday, as I said, I was running back
and forth. I had a ton of stuff to do,
but I was actually able to, since I was not
on the radio, take him to his soccer practice. And
we were just kind of talking, and he asked, Dad,
what do you think about President Trump's second term?

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Do you think it's been a success? And I said, well, yeah, buddy.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
And I listed all of this stuff that has been
going on, that has been just amazing he said well
on tiktok it's kind of amazing they try to make
you think that trump's second term has just been a
disaster and he goes and it's it's not just you
know left-wing people he's very perceptive when it comes to

(50:52):
the information that's being presented to him and as a
I mean, he is my kid, so we talk about this.
I say, okay, here on TikTok, this is what the
algorithm is going to show you because there is an
ax to grind. There is an agenda to push. He said, no,
it's a lot of people on the right. So you
can imagine the podcast bros that will be showing up

(51:16):
in a 16-year-old boy's TikTok feed in between all of
these soccer highlights and Let's see. Minecraft Gameplay. What's the
other game? Call of Duty Tips. And he's doing fantasy
football for the first time with his soccer team. It's

(51:36):
a longstanding tradition on their high school team that the
varsity will do a big fantasy football league. So he's
in fantasy football. So of course he had to show
me after their draft his team. And I'm like, Dude,
there's 16 players in this? How'd you end up with–
I'm like, can Coach Dan be a part of the
fantasy football league?

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Because how did you.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
End up with all of these guys in a 16-team league?
But he asked me, he said, Dan, Dad, what do
you think about Trump's second term? I said, because I just–
I don't get the sense that it's going that well.
It got me thinking, wow, huh. I think that that
sentiment has really gotten into the bloodstream. I really think people,

(52:20):
because of a coordinated media effort to make you think
exactly as my son does, that the second Trump term
has been an unmitigated disaster, that you forget about all
of the incredible successes. Glenn Beck. who is one of

(52:42):
the best conservative radio hosts, best radio hosts to ever live.
I'm a huge fan of Glenn, big fan of him
when he was on Fox News, incredibly talented broadcaster, incredibly
gifted orator and spokesperson for the conservative movement. I don't

(53:03):
want to just parrot what he said because he said
this so succinctly and so eloquently. Why are you dooming?
Why do you think things are so bad? Look at
what has gone right in just the past week.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Take a listen to this.

Speaker 9 (53:22):
It's easy to forget where we were just two years ago.
So before we get to the president, let me just
recap what has happened this week. Monday, Supreme Court cleared
the way for the president's mail-in ballot order to take
effect before the midterm six to three. Homeland Security can
build a federal citizenship list and send it to the
states while the attorney general can prioritize the prosecutions of

(53:45):
officials who give ballots to ineligible voters.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Also, the State Department.

Speaker 9 (53:52):
The State Department is moving to revoke the tourist and
business visas of up to 200,000 people who came as
visitors and then filed for asylum, the largest action in
American history. In 14 days this month, in 14 days,
ICE arrested almost 1,500 people in Virginia and Maryland alone,
including 400 with convictions and pending charges for crimes. from

(54:13):
sexual battery, kidnapping, robbery, attempted murder, rape, MS-13 members. One
of the most successful operations ever. Also, this week, we
find out State Department is removing the, is moving to
revoke the tourist and business visas. of up to 200,000
people who came as visitors.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Let's see.

Speaker 9 (54:35):
Meanwhile, we find out ICE arrests surged nearly 50,000 in July,
highest monthly total. Homeland Security also proposed a $ 103, 000 fee
on capped H-1B visa petitions.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
And then the economic news. This one's huge.

Speaker 9 (54:48):
Philadelphia Fed's manufacturing survey showed American factories having the strongest
current conditions in more than five years, but more striking,
the manufacturers, their expectations for the future surged to the
highest level since the beginning of the Reagan boom in
1983 with the biggest one jump ever recorded. In other words,
American manufacturing isn't surviving. It may be on the verge

(55:11):
of a major... We're going to build things in America again,
and nobody thought that was possible... with the exception of
our guest. That's all in one week.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
One.

Speaker 9 (55:21):
And the man responsible is President Donald J.

Speaker 7 (55:24):
Trump.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
And then he interviews President Trump. That's Glenn Beck from
the Glenn Beck radio show. That was all this week.
That was all within seven calendar days of today. All
of that, all of that was in a week. Folks,
I think we have a very serious problem with people

(55:48):
even on our side not realizing just how incredibly effective
this president's second administration has been. Coming up after the break.
all of the things that he has done in less
than two years, starting with the biggest success, I think,

(56:09):
on this issue in history, immigration, and the related massive
drop in crime.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
The Trump second term has been an absolute unmitigated success.
And no, I know what you're thinking on both the
left and the anti-Trump Doomer Wright. Well, Dan is just
a mega shill. Oh, you sweet summer child, please understand

(56:42):
that I have researched extensively how effective Trump has been,
especially on the issue of illegal immigration. Illegal border crossings
in this country within a Not nearly two years, but
within a matter of about two weeks, dropped to their
lowest level in about 60 years. We do not have–

(57:08):
forget about an open border or a porous border. We
don't have– it's like we have a moat– forget about
build the wall. It's like President Trump built the moat
around the United States. Illegal immigration in this country has
dropped below statistical zero. Why do I say that? Because

(57:33):
for the first time in half a century, net migration
to the United States declined, declined. Do you know how
significant that is? That means more people left this country
than came in. Yes, there have been a ton of deportations, 675,000.

(57:56):
To be precise, that's the rough estimate. And that does
not include 50,000, five zero thousand in July alone. That
according to the latest numbers from the Department of Homeland Security.
Six hundred seventy five thousand. Well, Dan, that's just a
drop in the bucket compared to all of the people

(58:16):
who came into this country during the Biden administration. Well,
what if I told you that that six hundred seventy
five thousand is just a drop in the bucket compared
in the number of deportations under the first year and
a half of the Trump administration's second term. In fact,
the total number is 3.675 million deportations, 3 million of

(58:39):
that total voluntary deportations. What the Trump administration did that
no other administration, I believe, thought to do, because certainly
the Biden and Obama administrations didn't want people to leave

(58:59):
this country and go back to their countries of origin.
They never incentivized going back. They never actually offered you
something that in the long term would be far cheaper
than the cost to keep you here living illegally, having
children who the state would partially be taking care of

(59:21):
through public education, through social services, through police fire services,
the cost, the net cost associated with each human being
in the United States. What the Trump administration did, and this, again,
was very, very quick. It was a quick configuration, reconfiguration

(59:42):
of the CBP1 app, the Border Patrol's app, that the
Biden administration essentially had illegals use to basically make a
reservation for their arrival illegally into this country. It was
sort of like the Open Table app. Call it the
Open Border app for illegals. They would go and they

(01:00:06):
would basically fill everything out like, hey, we're coming and
we're going to declare asylum status. And then they would
present themselves to the border patrol and they would enter
the country.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
They'd disappear.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
They'd never show up for an asylum hearing because they
did not have and never– none of them had a
valid asylum claim. Trump administration comes in, they reconfigure the
CBP one app and they put all of these migrants
who had the app on their phone. They said, okay,
we are going to give you and everybody with you

(01:00:37):
who is here illegally, your, your wife, your kids, abuela, whoever,
we're going to give them plane tickets back. Not only that,
we're going to give you money. in order to start
your new life in your old country. Now, you might think, hey, Dan,

(01:01:01):
why are we paying these people? Why are we incentivizing
these people? We're not incentivizing them coming. We're incentivizing them going.
It has been way easier to get people out saying,
you know what? All right, it's going to be tough.
And the message from the Trump administration is, if you
take our very generous offer, you can apply to become

(01:01:26):
a permanent legal resident. You will be prioritized on a
list if and when we open it up. But if
we catch you, if we give you this offer and
we deport you, you are never, ever, ever, ever getting
back in. Sure enough, millions of people have taken up
this offer. Three million give or take. Not only that,

(01:01:49):
the catch and release policy of the Biden administration immediately reversed.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Remain in Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
The migrant protection protocols where the fake asylum claims would
be adjudicated by a judge on a Zoom call while
you stayed on the other side of the border and
had a hearing right away. Okay, let's see. What's your
evidence that you are an actual refugee under American or

(01:02:19):
international law? None of them were, and none of them
wanted to try. So nobody is trying to get in
because they know they're not going to be able to
exploit The the Biden administration's obvious desire to have as
many illegals in this country as possible. They knew damn
well that these people were just disappearing into the interior

(01:02:40):
of the United States under false pretense. Their first act as.
People in the United States was to commit fraud by saying.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
If I go back to my country, you know, the
dictator is going to target me specifically.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Oh, really?

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
You're a what? Day laborer in Tijuana? Something tells me
that Claudia Scheinbaum is not going to target you for
your politics. You're not a refugee. Remain in Mexico while
we sort it out. Biden administration said, ah, come on in.
Here's a court date in two years. So you just

(01:03:19):
get to kind of live here illegally. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
That stopped. That stopped instantly. Not only that. President Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Signed the Lakin Riley Act, which requires federal authorities to
detain illegal immigrants arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, assault on
law enforcement officers, or any crime that results in death
or serious bodily injuries. It also lets people sue any

(01:04:00):
state or any public official who refuses to enforce this.
Lakin Riley, of course, was a young woman who was
brutally murdered while out on a jog by a criminal
illegal who was arrested in New York. He was arrested
in Georgia and released both times. Now, as a result

(01:04:23):
of these major changes, the massive deportations, the closed southern border,
we have seen the biggest drop in the nation's homicide
rate from one year to the next, 2024 to 2025,
in the nation's history. That is not me misspeaking. In

(01:04:47):
the history of this country, data going back 126 years,
all the way to 1900, we never saw a drop
in the murder rate or the number of total murders
in this country like the one we saw from 2024
to 2025.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Now, was this a result of all these.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Democrat states suddenly cracking down on criminality because Trump got reelected? No,
the only change in crime policy, the only one was
cracking down on illegal immigration and mass deportations.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
The results were immediate.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Not only that, we have seen the biggest drop in
violent crime and biggest drop in overall crime since at
least 1955. That's 70 years. We have seen.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
A massive reduction in pretty much every crime.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
This is why it's so telling that in David Crowley's
Milwaukee County, in the city of Milwaukee, Cavalier Johnson's city
of Milwaukee, we were one of the few major urban
areas to actually see an uptick in murders from 2024
to 2025. And we're actually on pace to at least
be close. if not surpass the 2025 total. How bad

(01:06:13):
do you have to screw up as a county executive,
as a mayor, as a police chief, as a sheriff,
as a district attorney, as a judiciary, as a criminal
justice system, as a common council, as a Milwaukee County board?
All Democrats, by the way, every single person with any
real power in the city of Milwaukee or Milwaukee County,
a Democrat. Wisconsin run by a Democrat. Wisconsin has a

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Democrat attorney general. Our biggest city, not coincidentally, spike in
murders while the rest of the country declines. Sticks out
like a sore thumb. But to say that that hasn't
been one of the biggest successes of any first year
in a presidency ever.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Is to just deny the basic fact.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
And it all stems from the single biggest promise and
the single biggest issue that first got President Trump elected
a decade ago, illegal immigration. That is no longer an
issue in this country. And it took a grand total
of about three weeks in 2025 for it to happen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
Well, damn.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
You might be saying at this point crime hill illegal
immigration the biggest issue to people it's the economy it's
affordability trump has done nothing wrong will get into that
stay tuned to dan o'donnell show is going to be
back book the idea that president from second term has
been a failure is largely an invention of the media
and let's face it uh... the remnants of the never

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trump movement that these are sort of like.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
The people, the bulwark crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
They're sort of like those Japanese soldiers that they found
on remote islands still fighting World War II in like 1964.
They're still trying to pretend that the Republican Party has
a future independent of conservative populism. And their hatred, of

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what the Republican Party supposedly is or has become is
really nothing more than their hatred of Trump. The idea
that somehow the economy is a disaster and it's because
of Trump, it's because of the war in Iran. The
other thing that has been just so disturbing to watch

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has been elements of the far right get just as
anti-Semitic as the far left. The far left is staggeringly anti-Semitic.
They just hate them some. Jews.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Don't believe me?

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
The most popular podcaster on the American left right now
is Hasan Piker. Think he likes Jews or dislikes Jews?
Just if you had to give a personal opinion poll
to Hassan Piker, what would the Jewish approval rating be? 100%
or 0%? I'm going to take a wild guess. It's

(01:09:22):
a lot closer to 0% than 100. But a lot
of the Iran animus has been this notion that somehow
Bibi Netanyahu secretly controls the world. You know, the Jew
leader and is secretly leading around Trump through either the

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Jewish money that controls Trump or the Jewish blackmail that
they have on Trump. I mean, the fact that people
don't see these like ancient anti-Semitic tropes in what just
passes as mainstream quasi-intellectual thought in this country now is remarkable.
On the economy, what caused inflation to begin with? Massive

(01:10:12):
influx of government spending, right? The $ 1. 9 trillion, $ 1. 7 trillion
government stimulus that Joe Biden passed immediately upon being sworn
in in early 2021. The effects were immediate. Do you
remember the Inflation Reduction Act, which actually increased inflation by

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increasing government spending? What then if more government spending, if
more money and more creating more demand with either less
or roughly the same amount of supply of anything, housing,

(01:10:53):
durable goods, food, gas, anything. If that causes inflation, what
reduces inflation? Less government spending, right? How many fewer federal
workers do you think there are today than there were
on January 20th, 2025, the day Trump took office? Just

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take a wild guess. 50,000, 100,000 fewer workers, 120,000, 600,000
fewer federal workers. In the long term is dramatically cutting,
this is the biggest cut in the federal workforce in
It's estimated in at least 60 years. The federal government

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is now at its lowest staffing level while our military
remains at full capacity. Like we do still have a
full fighting force in the American military, which is where
you want a lot of your government spending to go.
You don't necessarily need it in the Federal Department of Education. Yeah,

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we did just fine educating children without a Federal Department
of Education until the Carter administration, okay? Yeah, Eric, my producer,
says we did better, which is undeniably true. So when
you dramatically shrink the federal workforce, not only that, you
dramatically shrink outlays. to foreign governments and ridiculous causes outside

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of the United States by defunding and then shuttering USA ID,
what eventually happens? Total federal outlays decline. Total federal spending,
which has not happened yet. And I will admit this
has been a significant and valid critique of Trump since
he first took office in 2017. He is a big

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spending Republican. Because of the Iran war and because of
ongoing commitments to military preparedness and big budget increases in
the military, we are still seeing way too much federal spending.

(01:13:06):
But the seeds have been planted with a dramatic decrease
in the federal workforce, dramatic decrease in federal outlays to
foreign governments with the shuttering of USAID, and more money
going back to the people. One big, beautiful bill signed
last summer locked in the largest tax cut in modern

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American history. It doubled the standard deductions. Child tax credit
dramatically expanded. Expensing for factories, manufacturing equipment expanded to 100%.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime. Most taxes
on social security benefits abolished. That was a huge, huge

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relief for a lot of people. Not only that, okay,
what's the other thing that typically causes businesses not to expand,
not to be able to do business.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Compliance, right?

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Bureaucratic red tape. I'm talking about things that can be
done at the governmental level to spur on business. I'm
not talking about, oh, we're going to do new grants.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
Get out of the way. Let business do business. Federal agencies.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
Finalized in 2025 646 deregulatory actions. Do you know how
many new regulatory actions were enacted in fiscal year 2025?
There were 646 deregulatory actions. Just five regulatory actions. By
a 129 to 1 margin, the Trump administration has.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
Deregulated industry.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
And in nearly every one of the regulatory cases, it
actually repealed another regulation that was on the book. The
savings apparently have exceeded those of Trump's entire term in
the first time around, from 2017 to 2021 in just
a year and a half. The endangerment finding the barack

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obama 2009 legal foundation for the green new deal vehicle
emission mandates totally repealed the epa calls it the single
biggest deregulatory action in american history saving by the epa's
estimate americans approximately 1.3 trillion dollars not only that Significant

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investments in foreign capital, $ 18 trillion in pledged investment from
foreign companies coming into the United States provides an influx
of American capital and a resurgence of not just American manufacturing,

(01:16:14):
but the next generation of the global economy having a
significant foothold in the United States. Reshoring isn't just a slogan.
We are, in fact, bringing back industries, not necessarily heavy industry,
but it is industry. We are bringing it back to

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the United States and new industry, artificial intelligence, supercomputing, space exploration.
It is all being centered in the United States. Not
only that. our dependence on foreign energy is gone we

(01:16:58):
are now out producing both saudi arabia and russia in
terms of oil combined combined american now produces more oil
then saudi arabia and i could just repeat this for
the next our because i don't think nobody knows about

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it because Nobody, apparently outside of this show, is actually
going through this. We're just getting– well, the Iran war
is causing gas prices to go up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
The Trump term has been a failure.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Do you have any idea how revolutionary this stuff? This
stuff is so revolutionary. This stuff is so undeniably positive
that the next president, if it's a debt, do you
really think president Gavin Newsom would dare undo most of
this stuff? No, because it's so effective because it is working.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Should we keep going? Because there's way more success.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
I've got a lot of other stuff to do, but
we'll continue this when the Dan O'Donnell Show comes back.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Ontario is now Lake America.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
During the news break, we were looking to see if
it's been updated in Google Maps. It has not been.
The problem with this stuff, and this has been a
weakness of the Trump administration and of Trump personally for
10 years. His continual desire to own the libs sometimes

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forces his eye off the ball of what has been
a very successful second term.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
And it allows the media.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
To focus on the stupid stuff. instead of the significant.
We spent the better part of the four o'clock hour
going through all of the accomplishments that you might have
totally missed because, frankly, the media doesn't report on them.
There are massive, massive accomplishments that are almost on a

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daily basis at this point that are just ignored because, oh, Trump,
he's renaming Lake Ontario. Why should we call it the
Gulf of America? It's actually Mexico. This is so stupid.
It's so pointless. Oh, by the way, the new crime

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numbers came out and violent crime is at its lowest
level in like a century.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
That's the stuff that matters.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
In fact, there were a couple of Supreme Court decisions
that were brought about by lawsuits filed by the Trump
administration or against the Trump administration that will have massive, longstanding,
precedential value.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
The biggest one, I believe, is Trump v. CASA.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Which the Supreme Court said nationwide injunctions coming from a
district judge in the federal court system, that that's not
what the Constitution allows. The Trump administration in the first
term was stymied at every turn and it was starting

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to happen in the second term by federal district judges.
James Boasberg was the most notorious of these, who I
think understood that the Trump administration was correct on the
merits of whatever case was brought against it. But, well,

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while this makes its way through the court system, we're
going to issue an injunction against the Trump administration doing
whatever it is it wanted to do. And that injunction
isn't just in effect in my judicial district, in my
federal district. For example, Wisconsin has two, eastern, western. One
half of the state, the eastern half, is served by

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the federal courthouse in Milwaukee, western half, federal courthouse in Madison.
If there is an injunction that is issued, the Constitution
and the laws that have flowed from it have said
for decades, that injunction is only valid in the Eastern District,

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that district judges do not have the power to issue
an injunction. Because how is it that James Boasberg essentially
has more power than the president of the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Donald Trump says, I am issuing an executive.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
Order to do X. James Boasberg issues an injunction that says, no,
you are not. James Boasberg, unelected and only serving one
tiny district, is able to change national policy as he
sees fit. Could the Constitution ever possibly envision such a thing, right?

(01:22:12):
It could not. So Trump V C a S a
stopped that you can no longer issue nationwide injunctions from
the federal bench. If you are a district judge, this
is a major decision. The other one that is absolutely ginormous.

(01:22:37):
Do you know the reason that Trump was able to
fire 600,000 federal employees? You would think, well, it's because
he's the president, he's the head of the executive branch,
and all of those federal employees serve in the executive branch.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
They serve at the whim of the president, right?

Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
Wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Wrong. Civil Service Act says, no, the spoils system that
was in place before a new president comes in, he
hires whomever he wants, that can't work. And basically, Trump
is powerless to... reduce the size of government and eliminate position.
But Trump, the slaughter said that the president absolutely may

(01:23:17):
fire subordinate officials in the executive branch. There was a
1935 case that basically insulated these independent agencies from any
sort of control. So Trump was powerless to, to fire subordinates.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Somebody works for him?

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Come on. For the first time in 90 years, every
single person in the federal government can now be fired
for misconduct. That is a huge, huge problem. You know
what else is huge? The prize that we're giving away
in the nationwide iHeartRadio Music Festival Fly Away Contest. Not

(01:24:06):
only do you get round-trip airfare for two to Las Vegas,
two-night hotel stay, ground transportation, and tickets to both nights
of the iHeartRadio Music Festival, you also get a $ 1, 000
gift card. And all you need to do is to
text the word LUCKY to 200-200-L-U-C-K-Y, LUCKY. You've got until

(01:24:27):
5.55 to text it to 200-200. If you enter the contest,
you will get a confirmation text and information. Standard data
and message rates apply in this nationwide contest. Now, how
about the issue of DEI.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
And men and women's sports? An executive order forced.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
all decisions at every level of government or every level
of government that gets money from the federal government to
have only merit-based application hiring promotion no DEI whatsoever race
can no longer be used to punish or to reward

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you know like.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
The 14th amendment says.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
That was an executive order by Trump. Another one reaffirmed
Title IX. Men in men's sports, women can play sports
free from biological males interfering and artificially dominating when they

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have biological advantages. just as significant and I would argue
even more significant because let's face it, how many men
are really dominating women's sports?

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
The issue of men in women's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
Bathrooms and locker rooms, that's way more prevalent. President Trump
put a stop to it, reaffirmed Title IX, reaffirmed that yes,
When Title IX says you have to have a women's team,
that has to be for women. When Title IX says
if you've got a men's locker room for the men's team,
you've got to have a women's locker room for the

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women's team, that doesn't mean, well, yes, it's a women's
locker room, but, you know, Travis really looks like a
woman and thinks he's a woman, so he's going to
be in there, too.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Not only that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
On foreign policy, how about... Eight peace deals in eight months.
The big one has, of course, eluded him, Russia and Ukraine. NATO, however,
is now paying a much higher percentage of its own

(01:26:58):
defense than the United States. The 2% of GDP target
that all NATO allies were supposed to spend on shared defense, which,
of course, they never did. and were always, always taken
care of by the United States, which picked up the bill,

(01:27:20):
Trump forced NATO allies to increase the GDP share for
shared defense to 5% by 2035. Not only that, he forced,
instead of just America sending armaments over to Ukraine, NATO allies, hey,

(01:27:41):
you guys are way closer to this than we are.
You're going to buy our military equipment. You are going
to buy it. We'll give you a good price.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
But guess what? You're going to buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
He successfully executed an arrest warrant for Nicolas Maduro, who,
by the way, the United States government did not recognize
as the lawfully elected president of Venezuela.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
They actually didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
Declared him to be a narco-terrorist who stole an election
and unlawfully seized power. Well, in early January of this year,
the United States government went in and took him out. Then, yes, Iran. First,
the undeniably successful destruction last summer, summer of 2025, of

(01:28:34):
Iran's nuclear program, the Fordo Nuclear Facility Mission. was one
of the most awe-inspiring in recent military history. The fact
that we were able to send such a powerful strike
group across the world with no one knowing that until

(01:28:59):
they destroyed a nuclear facility buried under a mountain and
then came back unharmed and undetected. Again, nobody knew what
we did until everybody was safely back home. Do you
have any idea how successful that was? How about taking

(01:29:22):
out all of Iran's senior leadership. Do you know one
of the reasons that we can't get a deal? Because
everybody associated with the Ayatollah's regime is dead. They're dead.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
The, the, the idea that somehow Iran is winning this war.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
Is this like the, the new midwit talking point that
Iran is making Trump look stupid? The, When's the last
time Iran launched a missile? When's the last time you
saw the Revolutionary Guard Corps doing some high-level training? How

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about that Iranian Navy? Are they engaging our carrier groups
in the Strait of Hormuz?

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
How's that Navy doing?

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
The vaunted air defense system and the Iranian Air Force.
They launching any planes lately? Have they since... I don't know, March, April?
Iran is defeated. They are thoroughly defeated. Now that the U.S.
has essentially cleared all of the underwater mines from the Strait,

(01:30:38):
the commerce can get back. Do you know why commerce
is not flowing back through? Do you know why we
need an agreement so badly? Think about it logically. If
you were the captain of an oil tanker, would you
want to risk it with the possibility of an Iranian
drone smashing into you? You're a captain of an oil tanker, man.

(01:31:04):
You're not on board a Navy destroyer. That's the reason.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
The idea.

Speaker 1 (01:31:11):
Why do we need some– so the world can see, hey,
Iran has– there's going to be no more– why do
you think Trump keeps saying the Strait of Hormuz is open?
Because the Strait of Hormuz is open, people just because
of our– because of our media constantly downplaying what our military,

(01:31:32):
specifically our naval capability– and our air and space force
capability has been able to do in clearing the Strait
of Hormuz of all threats, people just, they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Want to risk it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
And I don't necessarily blame, do you think if you
were running BP, if you were running an oil company,
would you want to send your people through the Strait?
Would you want to risk, if there's even a tiny
chance that some A podunk little Iranian drone could kill

(01:32:07):
everybody on board your ship. No, of course you wouldn't
take that risk. So traffic has ground to a halt
because of that fear. All we need from Iran is, hey,
the Strait of Hormuz is open. Does it matter if
they uphold any other aspect of that? Not really, because

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if they don't, it ain't going to be like Obama. Okay, well,
we'll only give you half of our gold bullion stores
that we send to you in a secret midnight flight.
You don't get all of it, Ayatollah. You only get half. No,
you've got a president who will literally kill you and
everybody you care about if you don't uphold the agreement.

(01:32:53):
And now this economic D-Day, secondary sanctions on Russia, on
every other nation. They're going to try. Everybody is saying, well,
why aren't they doing secondary sanctions on China? Why aren't
they doing that? Xi Jinping is coming to the United
States on like September 21st. What the hell do you
think the number one thing they're going to talk about is?

(01:33:15):
Who do you think out of any of the world's
bad actors would have the ability to sort of float
remnants of the Iranian regime by buying their black market
oil or just funneling money into their economy so they
can be a thorn in Trump's side. Of course, it's China.

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The idea is to try to get an agreement there
before we directly take on what really is the world's
foremost global threat, a threat that Trump clearly is and
very obviously cease.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
All right, we're going to get back to local and
state politics.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
I found out a little something about David Crowley's tax policy,
specifically why he wants every county in Wisconsin to be
just like Milwaukee. You won't want to miss this. It
is coming up next. David Crowley is hitting back against

(01:34:16):
accusations that He is a tax and spend zealot because,
you know, of his record as a tax and spend zealot.
And he is trying to explain away something that took
a lot of people by surprise. There is a constitutional
amendment question on the ballot this November about limiting the

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governor's power to abuse the partial veto authority that he
has to do what Governor Evers did a couple of
years ago. It's known as the 400-year veto, allowing local
school districts to increase their property tax levy by $ 325

(01:34:59):
per student per year without going to referendum for the
next 400 years. What the legislature authorized as a two-year
temporary boost to school funding Governor Evers used the partial
veto authority to authorize potentially.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
We.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
Could have tax increases theoretically into the tens of billions
of dollars over the next, you know, four centuries by
using a veto authority. Now, the Constitution is very clear.
We amended the Constitution in Wisconsin in the early 1990s
to say you can't... Do a Vanna White veto where

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you cross out individual letters to make a new word
using the partial veto power. We eliminated Frankenstein vetoes. You
can't cross out entire paragraphs to take one word from
one paragraph, another word from another paragraph to create an
entirely new paragraph or an entirely new sentence that's known

(01:36:08):
as a Frankenstein veto. The 400-year veto was clearly a
Vanna White veto. The state Supreme Court said, well, you
can do it with numbers. You just can't do it
with letters.

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
Oh, my God in heaven. The underlying constitutional issue.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
Here is that the executive branch would usurp the authority
from the legislative and essentially levy a new tax that
the legislature never approved. The legislature writes the laws. The executive...
executes them. This is civics 101 to everybody except Tony Evers,

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the Democrats, and the libs on the state Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
So there is a ballot measure.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Do we amend the Constitution again to say you cannot
use the partial veto power to increase taxes or fees?
You cannot, you know, violate the Constitution. David Crowley said
this week, nah, man, I'm not voting for that. I
want the power, if I'm elected governor, to increase your

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taxes as much as I want without the legislature having
a say.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
Well, he went on a podcast, and you'll have to
forgive me.

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
I believe this is Scott Bauer of the Associated Press
asking the questions. If it is not, I apologize. I
ran out of time. I'm racing around to try to
get this show together. But he was asked— Crowley was— Look,
if this was Tom Tiffany using the partial veto power
to increase funding for school choice, would you be cool

(01:37:47):
with that?

Speaker 12 (01:37:48):
Governor Evers, in theory, increased school spending for 400 years.
Aren't you worried at all, though, that with that sort
of immense power that a Governor Tiffany, for example, could
increase spending on vouchers for 400 years?

Speaker 13 (01:38:04):
But we also know that our budget is a two-year
living document.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
This guy, I'm sorry, two-year living document. He's running a
$ 160 million deficit in Milwaukee County. I'm honestly convinced, and
I would love to have David Crowley on this show
to convince me otherwise. I truly believe, I honestly believe

(01:38:30):
he does not have the IQ to understand how budgets work.
I genuinely believe that. It's a living document. It's a
two-year living document. I swear to God, I'm going to
have him on my show and just ask him basic
civics questions. And, like, this is an oral exam, Mr. Crowley.

(01:38:52):
You get five of ten wrong, you fail. It's a
living document. Okay, he goes on, and it doesn't get
more intelligent than this. I'm telling you, he's just as
dumb as Francesca Hong, but he wears the comically oversized glasses.

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
To try to convince people that he's smart.

Speaker 13 (01:39:12):
You know, all the things that we're seeing can be changed, right?
And who's to say that a Democratic legislature and a
Democratic governor won't change what Governor Evers did? But at
the end of the day, you know, the reason why
that veto came to play is that we aren't giving
enough money to our public schools.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Why that veto came to play. Why that veto came
into play, I think. I'll give you that. It's just
a little verbal gaffe. I'm just I am becoming increasingly
convinced this is not a smart man.

Speaker 13 (01:39:44):
Right. They didn't feel the special education gap like they promised.
They said about 42 percent were going to go towards
the special education. It was much lower than that. And
then none of the public schools seen an increase in
general aid.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
Right.

Speaker 13 (01:39:58):
And so the governor was doing everything in his power
to make sure that we're sending resources.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
OK, you can be dumb or you can be a liar.
When you're a dumb liar, how is this? Seriously, Dems,
can we get like can we get Missy Hughes to
jump back in the race like this idiot did? How
is this man? We are spending more on K-12 education.

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than we ever have even adjusted for inflation and we're
doing so to educate fewer students by far than we
had twenty five years ago k twelve enrollment has fallen
off a cliff and it's only projected to decrease Per-pupil.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
Spending is at all-time record.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Oh, well, it's not in my Milwaukee, duh. Yeah, per-pupil
spending is higher in MPS, the worst-performing school district in
Wisconsin and very possibly America. I think Milwaukee Public Schools
might be the most dysfunctional, worst school district in America.
It gets more money. on a per pupil basis and

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a total basis every single year. And they just went
to referendum for a quarter of a billion dollars, despite
not telling the public how they spent the $ 750 million
that they got in federal grant money from COVID-19. How dare, like,
does he think, do the Democrats think everyone in Wisconsin

(01:41:32):
is as stupid as David Crowley?

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
That they're just going, yeah, but they're not getting enough
in general revenue.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
They get more money. I just, it boggles my mind.
I was on TV today. I was on Newsmax with
some Democrat, some woman who I, it was just like,
it was honestly shocking to me. I would say something

(01:42:00):
that never happened. The Hunter Biden barisma. I said, what
do you mean that never happened? That never happened? The Burisma? It, like,
objectively did happen. I mean, he was on the board.
He was getting hundreds of thousands of dollars and was

(01:42:22):
very clearly only on the board to grease the skids
because his father, the vice president, was head of energy
policy and Ukraine and It didn't happen. They just, the
ease with which they lie. It's just stunning to me.
The thing about Crowley though, this woman, she, she, I

(01:42:45):
have no idea who she is. I don't even have
Maddie something or other Addie, Addie or Maddie or something.
She's apparently an attorney. Uh, She at least was quasi-intelligent.
I'm telling you, you can be a liar or you
can be stupid. You can't be both or you're David Crowley.
Let's let him finish.

Speaker 13 (01:43:03):
Just back to our public schools. But we need a
real fix. It was a temporary fix to make sure
that schools every single year would get that particular increase.
We need a long-term fix. We can't continue to utilize
our budget document on how we're going to plan our
investments for decades to come. And that's the real problem.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
Remember a couple seconds ago when I said David Crowley,
I'm becoming increasingly convinced, is just not smart? He said
the 400-year veto is a temporary fix. Compared to what?

(01:43:50):
Geologic time? Well, you know, compared to.
The life cycle of our sun, this is a temporary fix.
You know, this solar system star will die out in
several hundred billion years. And compared to that, the 400,

(01:44:15):
this is a temporary fix. And are you ready for this?
When I say, I don't think the man understands how
budgets work.

Speaker 2 (01:44:24):
This is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:44:28):
He is saying, He literally just said he doesn't think
that we should use the budget process to budget for schools.
That we should not use the state budget, which sets

(01:44:52):
a budget every two years. It's a living document, don't
you know? Sets a budget. For K-12 education, money coming
directly from the state to K-12. Schools are funded through
property taxes. They also get direct revenue from the state.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
He does not.

Speaker 1 (01:45:15):
Believe that we should use the budget to set budgets.
And he also believes the 400-year increase is just a
temporary thing. Is anybody but me going to dissect? This

(01:45:37):
isn't a word salad. This is like, this isn't even
a food. This is this guy drooling on the tablecloth
and trying to take a bite out of the plate.
You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show. When we come back,
I went back and took a look at this buffoon's

(01:45:58):
record on taxes. A bill he proposed in the legislature
would have turned every county into a into his failed
Milwaukee County on the issue of taxes.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
You're not going to want to miss this. It is
the Dan O'Donnell Show.

Speaker 1 (01:46:14):
The full answer David Crowley gave on why he supports
the idea that a governor can just sort of wave
his magic partial veto pen and increase your taxes for
the next 400 years.

Speaker 12 (01:46:30):
Governor Evers, in theory, increased school spending for 400 years.
Aren't you worried at all, though, that with that sort
of immense power that a Governor Tiffany, for example, could
increase spending on vouchers for 400 years?

Speaker 13 (01:46:46):
But we also know that our budget is a two-year
living document. And so, you know, all the things that
we're seeing can be changed, right? And who's to say
that a Democratic legislature and a Democratic governor won't change
what Governor Evers did? But at the end of the day,
you know, the reason why that veto came to play
is that We aren't giving enough money to our public schools, right?

(01:47:08):
They didn't fill the special education gap like they promised.
They said about 42% were going to go towards the
special education. It was much lower than that. And then
none of the public schools seen an increase in general aid, right?
And so Governor Evers was doing everything in his power
to make sure that we're sending resources back to our
public schools. But we need a real fix. It was

(01:47:29):
a temporary fix to make sure that schools every single
year would get that particular increase, we need a long-term fix.
We can't continue to utilize our budget document on how
we're going to plan our investments for decades to come.
And that's the real problem.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
We can't continue to use our budget document to plan
our investment for decades to come. And the 400-year veto
is is just a temporary fix the 400 year you

(01:48:06):
know i'm starting to realize why it is that milwaukee
county has a budget deficit that is projected to be
$ 160 million, even though it's taking in $ 100 million a
year in sales tax revenue because of Act 12. Act 12,

(01:48:29):
back in 2023, authorized Milwaukee County to nearly double its
sales tax to 0.9%. David Crowley, Milwaukee County Executive, pushed
this hard. It also authorized the city of Milwaukee to
implement a new 2% city sales tax increase. That's right.

(01:48:52):
David Crowley, famous tax cutter, at least according to his ads.
Biggest property tax decrease ever. Well, yeah, five of six
years the increase occurred. in property taxes dramatically dwarfed that decrease.
And the reason there was the decrease is because everybody

(01:49:12):
was paying more for everything because you nearly doubled the
county sales tax. He actually is photographed in a picture
that's making the rounds on social media today, cutting a
celebratory cake after raising everybody's sales and property taxes. I

(01:49:36):
actually went back through the man's record. March 13th, 2018,
Assembly Bill 1020, introduced by David Crowley, as well as
a handful of other Democrat reps and co-sponsored by a
number of Democrat senators. It would allow a municipality to

(01:50:00):
impose a new sales tax and use tax and allow
a county to increase the rate of its sales and
use tax, as well as making appropriations. Six years before
getting on his hands and knees, prostrating himself before the

(01:50:23):
state legislature. And for David Crowley, if he's listening, to
prostrate yourself is to like lie before somebody that is
not prostate. That isn't just so we're clear. I'm telling
I'm increasingly convinced the man does not understand basic things
like why would you use a budget? To plan for

(01:50:44):
your financial future. Why would you use a budget to
set your spend for decades to come? He doesn't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
I tell you, he does. A budget is a living document.

Speaker 1 (01:51:00):
I swear producer Eric and I were talking about this
during the commercial break that he heard the constitution called
a living document so many times that he thought that
it just applied to budgets too.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
The budget is a living document.

Speaker 1 (01:51:14):
Yes, all of those budget amendments that get passed every
two years. It is a spending plan that does set
up government spending for the next several decades. And a
400-year increase is a temporary fix. Six years before David

(01:51:37):
Crowley prostrated himself before the legislature and demanded that he
nearly doubled the county's sales tax. Now he has the
gall to talk about affordability. Bro, you made literally everything
less affordable in your county by increasing the sales tax.
That is the one tax that makes everything less affordable.

(01:52:01):
But yes, yes, he's the better candidate on affordability. Six
years before he introduced a bill that would have allowed
every county to raise its property tax levy and every
city or excuse me, sales tax levy and every city
to increase or create a sales tax levy. According to

(01:52:23):
the Legislative Reference Bureau. Under current law, a county may
impose a sales tax and use tax at the rate
of 0.5% of the sales price of tangible personal property
goods and services sold or used in the county. This
bill allows a county, with the approval of the county
electors at a referendum, to increase the tax rate in 0.1%

(01:52:46):
increments as long as the overall rate does not exceed 1%.
The bill also allows a municipality to impose a sales
and use tax at the rate of 0.1 to 0.5%
of the sales price if the municipality adopts an ordinance
to impose the tax and the ordinance is approved by

(01:53:07):
the electors of the municipality at a referendum held at
a spring or general election. In addition, the bill allows
a municipality that has adopted such an ordinance to subsequently
increase the rate in 0.1% increments as long as the
increase is approved by the electors at a referendum, and
as long as the overall rate does not exceed 0.5%.

(01:53:29):
That was introduced by David Crowley. He wanted to increase
every single county sales tax in Wisconsin. He wanted to
have every city, in addition to that, be able to
impose its own sales tax. Mr. Affordability wanted every county

(01:53:53):
and every city in the entire state to be able
to take more from you and force you to pay
more when you buy everything. 2017 Assembly Bill 1020, introduced
March 13th, 2018. Now, if David Crowley is listening, Why

(01:54:15):
is it called 2017 Assembly Bill? Because it was the
2017 to 2019 legislature. And it was finally introduced early
in 2018, but it was drafted in 2017. I feel
like I need to explain basic civics and financial concepts here.

Speaker 2 (01:54:37):
To Milwaukee County's executive. You're listening to The Day.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Barry Phillips today refused to throw
out a felony drug house charge against Sumatria Matthews, a
top official in the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court's office.
He sent the case to trial after prosecutors said her
basement was used to package and store cocaine and fentanyl

(01:55:06):
She faces a felony charge of maintaining a drug trafficking
place as party to the crime, faces three and a
half years in prison, $ 10, 000 in fines, an arraignment set
for September 3rd. She is expected to plead not guilty.
She also is collecting a pension of $ 2, 600 a month.

(01:55:26):
She also got $ 53, 000 in back pay after retiring. And
then double dipping, something that I always thought the Milwaukee
County Board voted to stop. The clerk of circuit court,
by the way, Anna Maria Hodges, in an email to

(01:55:49):
me as I was trying to get information about this,
vehemently denied that Sumatra Matthews was getting a pension and
double dipping. In other words, Milwaukee County clerk of court
is a liar. Par for the course in David Crowley's
Milwaukee County.

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