"Rotting from within": Trump threatens to federalize Washington, D.C., after the defeat in...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trump threatens to federalize DC after attack on Doge Stafford.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
That's a Guardian story.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
So he is threatening to strip its local governors, citing
rampant youth crime after an alleged assault on Edward Chorustine,
a nineteen year old former staffer of the Department of
Government Efficiencies who was severely beaten to the point of
concussion while defending a woman from assault near DuPont Circle.

(00:28):
Crime in DC. And here's where he's talking about it.
Trump thrust to federalized back by Elam Musk the assault
on those team members. We're gonna see what's gonna happen here.
And in two thousand and a la Field score, though
fully suspending DC's home rule established in nineteen seventy three
would likely require congressional legislation. And we'll see if that
had happened or now, Robert, is that.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
A tweet of his?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I have a tweet and video.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So let's watch a video and now I'll read the tweet.
Go forward.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
By the way, I have to say that somebody from
those was very badly hurt last night. You saw that
a young man who was beat up by a don
You have thugs in DC and either they're going to
straighten their act out in the terms of government and
in terms of protection, or we're gonna have to federalize
and run it the way it's supposed to be run.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Can you go to this tweet rap and we'll break
this down. So crime in DC is out of control.
Local youth gang members, some only fourteen fifteen, sixteen year
olds are randomly attacking, mugging him, miming, and shooting innocent
citizens at the same time, knowing that they will be
almost immediately released. They are not afraid of law enforcement
because they know nothing ever happens to them. But it's
going to happen now. The law and DC must be

(01:32):
changed to prosecute these miners as adults and lock them
up for a long time, starting at the age of fourteen.
The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs.
DC must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans
and importantly for the world to see. If DC doesn't
get its act to get and quickly, we'll have no choice.
And then he goes into the messaging there. So now, Tom,

(01:53):
what does it mean to federalize? Does that mean the
government now starts controlling it over by the ways us elon.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Tweeting, Yes, he tweeted too, Trump's tweet.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, So a few days ago, gang of about a
dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her
car at night in DCA. Dose team members saw that
what was happened and ran to defender and was severely bitten,
beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her.
It is time to federalize DC. So they're on the
same page together on this thing.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Cure. What does this mean, Tom, and who's going to
be against it? Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Federalizing DC is a city.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Cities normally are part of counties, and counties are part
of states, so you usually have a governor, county laws
like sheriffs, and then the city.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Is that the kid?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
By the way, robes and zoom? Is that the So
that's the kid after protecting the lady? Yep, that's what
they did to him. Are you serious?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
That's serious? So? Can can we find out about this
nineteen year old kid?

Speaker 6 (02:46):
He's you know, he's the Dose guy, the big you
know what I know?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I want to know who he is. Can you pull
up his name and just go is this Edward big Balls? Cornstine. Yes,
this is the guy Edward. Yeah, let's see who he
is him, but I want to know who he is, Like,
I actually want to read who is this guy?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So he was known as the online Elias big Balls
is an American college on the program A formerly pointed
about DOGE and made a permanent federal employee with the
title of Senior Advisor to the highest paid grade GS
to fifteen and the General Service Administration at the end
of May twenty twenty five. He was resigned weeks later
in June before taking a job with Social Security Administration.
Born there was a father was a CEO of a

(03:25):
Lesser Evil. The maternal grandfather, Valerie, was a KGB lieutenant
colonel executive by Soviet Union as a double agent. After
his execution, his widow moved for her children from the
United States. According to LINKEDLN resume, Coursing graduated from Rye
Country and attends university. He enrolled in Norton Hissterity University
Mechanical June. He expected your graduation. School friends described him
as intelligent and driven, while Ela Musk, being a hero,

(03:47):
coursing as a registered Republican.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Interesting, Tom, So this guy gets beat up. That picture
is tough to watch, by the way, with what happened
to him, So good for him for being a hero.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
So Tom who would be against it? Who doesn't want
this thing to happen.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
The Democrats aren't going to want federalization.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
So all federalization means is that the city of Washington,
d C. Is not under any state. It's in the
District of Columbia, which means it does not have a
state mechanism around it. Let's say there is a failure
of a city in Florida. Unless he was a fictitious example,
the mayor of Fort Myers in the surrounding area has

(04:27):
his family and his home washed out by a hurricane.
The mayor can't perform needs help. Governor DeSantis is down
there with the Florida resources to help the mayor. Makes sense.
The state helps the city. The city governs the city
with police. City police can't get the job done. County
sheriffs sheriff in the county come out to assist. DC

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is just a city, but it's a failed city that
doesn't have second level control. Federalization would mean that the
federal government would act as the state, like the DeSantis
helping a city that's been hit by a hurricane or
civil unrest.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's what they're talking about.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
The Democrats will say no, no, no, no, no, you know,
leave them be, leave them be because they use DC.
The Democrats use DC for its little electoral vote. They
use d C and it's never been anything but blue.
And the poverty and everything that's there is horrible. How's
that working out for you, citizens of DC? How's that
working out? But the Dems are going to be against

(05:28):
it because they'd rather have victims at the voting booth
than actually move things forward and have people look around
and maybe move toward independent status PAP.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Those are the people that don't want it.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
But d C clearly needs something like a state to
help govern it, and that's what federalization would do because
d C is not in a state, it's just a
district of Columbia in a city.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Any what do you think about that?

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Well, again, you know, Adam always say, you say, follow
the money. Who's the mayor. Let's follow the who's the mayor?
Muriel Bowser, Okay, she's been there two and fifteen, And
we always talk about people that are voting these people
in and doing all that said, there's three terms that
had been happening with her. Okay, the city's got more dangerous,
more expensive, and more out of touch. And just a
little background history in her she backed the Criminal Code

(06:13):
to overhaul slash penalties for violent crimes, so she lowered
sentences for carjacking, robberies, and gun crimes. Number one, she
pushed to defund the police. A mayor of a city
was pushing to defund the police. In twenty twenty, she
supported soft on crime prosecutors.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, and all this stuff.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
It's not like DC got bad overnight, not pulling all
on her, but it's policies like hers that wrought from
the inside. And again, keep voting for these people and
you're gonna keep getting it. So I'm pro Trump doing
what he's gonna do. Like enough is enough.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
This lady won against Vincent Gray Democratic primary and he
was incumbent and won the general election against three independent
and two minor candidates with fifty five percent to vote
in twenty eighteen. That was on fourteen, twenty eighteen. She
won her second term with seventy six point four percent
of the vote. In twenty twenty two, on her third term,

(07:03):
she won seventy four point six percent of the vote,
Vinnie seventy four point Go a little bit lower wrap
on that to see what it says on the bottom.
Youngest of six children. Her father was a DC based
public advocate, a work for public servant and an employee
DC area. Born in DC, grew up in North Michigan.
Very interesting. What school does she go to? Can we
see what school she went to?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Something?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
University? She went to Chatham University, Chatham College in Pittsburgh. Adam,
your thoughts on this?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Yeah, I think Trump should follow through with federalizing DC.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
So you know, we're all in America.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
We understand what a monopoly is and anti trust laws
are put in place to prevent companies from dominating industries.
We always hear that Amazon is dominating the industry, Microsoft
Apple dominating the industry.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
What about politically?

Speaker 7 (07:48):
What about ideologically? Has DC ever had a Conservative Republican
mayor ever? A lot of these cities out there, they're
ideologically dominated by one party, and we wonder why d C, LA,
San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, the list goes on and
on and on. Don't improve And I used to always

(08:09):
advocate these are the best cities in America, biggest cities
in America, but there's a big difference between.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
The biggest and the best.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
Washington, d C. I love DC, but DC is a
city of complete paradox and contrasts. It's basically suits by
day and sirens by night. You're just walking around, you
love it. It's history on every corner. As soon as
night falls, it's like run for shelter. You don't know
what's coming around the next corner. Hidro kids, hijo wives.

(08:40):
It is the most American city, Flags everywhere, Patriotism everywhere.
But then it's also the most liberal city. The most
liberal cities in the country by far and away, Washington,
d C, San Francisco, Berkeley area, and then Boston, Cambridge.
It's the elite Ivory Coast university cities that basically have

(09:04):
zero tolerance for an ideological difference. So the monopoly that
they have on DC, I'd love to see it come
to an end.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
I've never understood the voters.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Marion Barry was elected mayor, then he ends up in
doing it crack in jail, that's right, crack, and allegedly
also using city funds allegedly to pay for hookers, making
him known as the education president. Yes, I mean the
education mayor. And then his campaign slogan was I will

(09:34):
get the drugs off the street and into my nose.
And then after he goes to jail the people re
elected him, it's like.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
What are you doing?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
It's just name recognition and looking back to that. So
there is also this thing, it's like, you get what
you vote for. And then they all look back and say,
now you've had two generations of failed schools, poverty and
all the problems go with it.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
How's it working out for you? When are the voters
going to wake up?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (10:01):
So, by the way, with this whole conversation started with
the kid that got beat up from Doze and Elon
Musk kind of waited.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Sirens at night?

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Is sirens at night? I mean, this is very common
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