Democrat Mayor Sides with Trump Takeover

As DC crime rate nose dies, Mayor Bowser changes her tune on the Trump takeover. Keeping you informed and engaged.

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Welcome to Sekulow, and that's right. You're going to hear some of the sound coming from Mayor Bowser, not exactly the person you think that would be praising President Trump or President Trump's. Plan on what ended up being the DC takeover, if you will, which of course has now resulted in some pretty staggering, staggering facts and figures. I think even those who maybe questioned the. The validity of the idea of going in and doing this.

Now have to take a step back when you have had the better part of 10 days, 12 days, 15 days. With no murder, very little. I think they said an 87% drop in carjacking. I mean, these are staggering figures from one of the nation's most dangerous cities. I mean, everyone knows this.

Washington, D.C. has always had a crime issue pretty much since existence, but really in the last 50, 60 years, there's always been issues in Washington, D.C. And President Trump and the Trump administration had enough, controversially called in the National Guard, called in all of these things, kind of federalized it, even brought in the National Guard from other states. We had J.B. McCuskey from West Virginia in.

A lot of states said, Yeah, we're going to come and help out, especially neighboring areas. I mean, it really is a neighboring area, Washington, D.C. We need Virginia and West Virginia in these areas. And now You have Mayor Bowser again.

Someone that I don't think you'd expect to. I mean, when I heard this, I actually read the article first, and I turned to Will here and I said. Does she say this with like sarcasm, with laughs? And no, it's with what sounds to me complete sincerity. Let's just hear the quick bite-bite one.

We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city. We greatly appreciate the surge. Of officers. That is not something you expect to hear. But then she goes on further on in her statement.

We'll play more of that when you get back. More of those facts and figures that have come out of what has changed in Washington, D.C.

Now you're going to see whether the Trump administration is going to figure out: can they take this to other cities? And of course, it gets a little harder because Washington, D.C. Is controlled by the federal government. That's right, Logan. And as you see mayors across the country and governors, I think of Chicago and in the state of Illinois, with both the governor and mayor there holding press conferences saying that Trump lives free, rent-free in the governor's mind, meanwhile, was standing in front of Trump Tower in Chicago.

You start to see the pushback from the party at large. And it's in stark contrast of how the tone and the words spoken by the mayor of DC and to To be frank, I mean, the mayor of D.C. has a little bit of the luxury, Jordan, of not really having control over the city in the way that others do. But she doesn't have to say it like this. No, and she represents the real Washington, D.C.

It's not the headquarters for the federal government and the headquarters for all the companies and downtown D.C. and law firms and lobbyists and businesses. Defense contractors that really make up what you see when you go to Washington, D.C., maybe on a tourist visit, or if you've worked in Washington, D.C., or you have family that does, there's that corridor, which is already pretty much under federal control because those are all federal buildings. They have their own police force, the executive branch, different forces, the Supreme Court Police, the Capitol Hill Police. You've got the, of course, Secret Service.

All these police. That is a tiny percentage of Washington, D.C. And the rest of Washington, D.C., falls under Mayor Bowser. She's got to deal with that. She doesn't get that.

So she's now getting the benefit of what. A small part of DC has gotten for decades so that her citizens, really the lifelong residents and families that have lived and grown up in DC, are now getting the benefit of having the security that the kind of political side of Washington, D.C. has. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Maybe you live in one of these cities.

Maybe you live in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, some of these areas that have become overly crime-riddled over the last number of years. What do you think? Do you want this to happen? I know it's controversial. And look.

I think we could have all said if it didn't work, going, okay, well, that's another policy change that we don't necessarily agree with because, look, it didn't work. But it is very hard to look at it and go, man, that didn't work. It certainly is working. We only have three days left, by the way, in our 35 years of victory drive.

So I'm going to encourage you to make a donation if you can and have it doubled. We'll be right back with more on Secula. Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you, by the way, at 1-800-684-3110. I think we need to hear directly from Mayor Bowser from Washington, D.C.

Again, not someone who's been a fan of conservatives, not a fan of President Trump, but comes out and makes some statements today and yesterday. Uh praising. The administration and what they've done, what would you consider to be, when you see your social media posts, a lot of people are very concerned about maybe the federalization of the police force in Washington, D.C.

Now, it's a little different in Washington, D.C. because of the way that the district is run. It's not a traditional state, it is a district, so it has control by the federal government.

Now, when Donald Trump decides I want to take this method to other cities and other states, that's where it's going to get interesting. That's where those fights I'm sure are going to begin. If you are in one of those cities or states, I want to hear from you, or maybe you're in the adjacent suburban area. I know we have a lot of listeners in the Los Angeles area. I know we have a lot of listeners in Chicago, in New York, and these San Francisco areas that have sadly had this issue.

Look, maybe you could turn to Sunday, Texas, you could turn to Austin. You could turn to some of those areas that maybe could use some of this help. And I think it is a two-pronged effort here. You have the homeless crisis that's happening across the country, by the way, all over the place. We need to make sure that if these are people who need to be taken care of, whether that is having mental issues or need assistance.

For addiction, we need to make sure we take care of those people. We do, we need them to do this the right thing to do. But also we want to make sure that the streets are not only clean, but they're safe. And that is a concern, specifically in the states like or in areas like Washington, D.C., or where people are traveling, where they are your top tourist destinations in the country. But you had this moment where President Trump put in this very controversial place saying, we are going to take over the police force, essentially.

We're going to come in. We're going to add more. We're going to do this. Whether you like it or not, the federal government has control over Washington, D.C. And what you saw was mass success.

And now that mass success, which includes, by the way, a very, very limited amount of high crime, including there was 10, 12 days with no murders. There has now been a significant drop in carjackings, nearly 90%. But again, I want you to hear from Mayor Bowser.

So you know what I've, I'm not just reading this and there's some sort of a tone that you're catching that maybe it's sarcastic or whatever it may be. Let's do bite one and then bite two right back to back. And we greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance. What MPD has been able to do in this city. For carjackings, the difference between this period, this twenty day period of this federal surge, and last year represents a eighty seven percent reduction.

in carjackings in Washington, DC. We know that when carjackings go down, when the use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer.

So this surge has been important to us for that reason. All right, Jordan, this is the Democrat mayor of D.C. No fan of President Trump. We know this. Really touting the numbers, an 87% drop in carjackings, and then goes on to talk about how the neighborhoods are safer and really praising what is happening with this surge.

Here's a headline within the last week from CNN. Trump's D.C. takeover produces a moderate drop in crime and a huge spike in immigration arrests. Yeah, I guess they just didn't wait to hear from Washington, D.C.'s own government. When 80.

You see what she said there? She's like: if you start out with the carjackings. Carjackings involve human beings and guns.

So if you're down 87% in carjacking, so almost 90%. That means less people who are getting injured or killed.

So then you have less homicide, less gun crimes. That means there's less people on the street with weapons who want to use them for criminal reasons. And that makes neighborhoods safer. It makes people feel safer about getting out of their car and into their car in places like Washington, D.C., which is usually when this happens. It's usually, and we're getting to that closer to that season when it gets dark early.

And I will tell you, it doesn't really matter where you are in Washington. When it starts getting dark at 4:45, you can't see around these corners. It's not like New York always.

So you don't always feel like there's 100 people around you. You can feel kind of isolated very quickly there if you get to your kind of your street, your block. And so that kind of reduction. It was interesting because I was there yes, Tuesday and I saw the protest. Against this.

And These are the constituents that would be voting for Mayor Bowser. Again, they weren't waiting to see the actual results are. No one's being targeted because of their race or because of the color of their skin or because of their neighborhood. It's citywide. And it's the people who actually live in Washington.

their whole lives. It's not the people who are there for three years. It's good for them too. For the people who come and go with politics. But there are 90% of Washingtonians live there, kids go to school there and work there, and they stay.

And those are the individuals that want to make sure it's not just those key areas that are safe, but that the regular neighborhoods in Washington and even some of the tougher neighborhoods in Washington are safer from gun crimes. I mean, that's what we're talking about here. Carjacking. 87% down is a huge number. Huge number.

In Washington, D.C., again, you may picture just Capitol Hill, but you have areas that have had been crime-riddled for decades. There are areas you do not go to. Yeah, somebody says there's areas you do not go to. And that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate in any city, but it's just the facts.

It's what's going on. And to be honest, probably a lot of us. Just kind of wrote it off. It's like, that's just the way the city is going to be. That's just the way Chicago is going to be.

That's just the way New York is going to be. There are areas you just don't go to, and you play it safe. But now we see that there's actually an option to change these areas and to actually affect change in a positive direction. I don't know. This could be a big moment.

Well, and one thing they're looking at too is moving the Washington Commanders, I have to say that right to back to RFK and redoing RFK. RFK is kind of the end of Capitol Hill. I mean, it's pretty far back. And when. As far as there, I felt like it was crumbling, but let's uh yeah.

So, to redo that area, to then, again, they've redone the waterfront in DC on Capitol Hill. That made that area, again, just another area with a lot of new jobs and a lot of new places to live. Uh, if you did that around RFK Stadium, again, kind of this rebuild of that area, you're opening up an entire new place. But you can't do that. As we've seen in cities where sports teams are failing, it's not necessarily failing because it's not entertaining.

It's failing because you're afraid to go to the game or afraid to leave the game, especially with your family. Yeah, which is primarily who's driving ticket sales. We have seen that in a lot of areas. A lot of areas also. We've seen players from the Memphis Grizzlies and basketball players say, I would take less money not to play in Memphis.

Yeah, to move it to the city. Just because I know I'd have a target on me because I'm a high earner. Yeah, exactly. And I think that you probably have the similar situation in where I'm leaving. Look, I mean, I love Memphis.

I love Washington, D.C. I love these are these are the lights. Yeah. And in Memphis, I feel like you really could do it because I don't feel like you're talking about near as much. Not nearly as complicated as either with all these different police forces that you've got as well.

But it's where the line is where you want federal government to get involved. Even for us, I have to say that. I'm not talking about even like, I think where do you draw a line for federal government? I think it's good to kick it off.

Well, get things back to a good point and then let the local police keep it at that level, see if they can keep it at that level.

So it's kind of like a surge. Yeah, she said that. And then it goes back to the local police. They now know they've learned some tactics. If you think you need it again, different times of year where crime goes up higher.

Bring them back, and again, you establish a positive relationship where this is no longer a partisan issue or a scary, kind of like, this is the beginning of martial law. It's not. I mean, it's really talking about how do we get our big cities, our major cities in the United States, back to a safe place for everyone, not just the wealthy people who live in the nice areas, but for everybody who lives and works in those cities because. The people who live in the nice areas need people to do all the jobs that work in those companies, that clean the hotels. They want to be safe too when they leave work at night.

Well, and Jordan, you think about for how long we've heard the defund the police movements, the things of that nature, which have been a rallying cry for Democrats for years now. You still see candidates running on that platform. You see what's something different. You see the mayor of D.C. acknowledging that a surge in resources works.

You saw the mayor of Chicago on Morning Joe yesterday asked three times by Joe Scarborough: listen, if you have unlimited budget and you can do these intervention forces and things that you want to do, Would also having 3,000 extra police officers help you get a handle on crime? And he refused to answer the question. But then this is a Politico headline from just two days ago. Trump is leaning in on crime. Democrats need a better response and fast.

It does seem to some degree that the walls are kind of crumbling in on this false narrative that we've known is bad for years: that if you defund the police, it becomes a better, safer city because the police are the problem. Yeah, now, what's interesting, and I haven't followed this part as closely, but you know, initially D.C. sued. Yeah. So That would have been the mayor.

That's why the chief is so shocking.

So now that the mayor has come out and said this is great. I don't know if they've dropped the lawsuit. And if they haven't, they're making the points against it. Yeah, I mean, so the police commissioner. They've made clear is still the police commissioner.

She's still the head of police. It's not that. But it's interesting. Their initial knee-jerk reaction was, Donald Trump is trying to send in the troops. No.

And then now it's after they got a little taste of it, it's this is wonderful. There's even more. They need to match it up to what they're doing in court. Right. And there's even more from Mayor Bowser.

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Now, I wanted to kick it over to Jordan and the team here, the legal team, because today is also a very big day for our Supreme Court team, for our legal team, because you may be hearing us talking about what's going on in Washington, D.C. and the crime and all of that. But for Washington, D.C., it also means our legal team is at it. I know you're just up there. And.

We have a pretty big update. Yeah, because we have, we're filing three different filings at the Supreme Court just today. Today. Just today at the U.S. Supreme Court.

So I was with the team on Tuesday. We're just finalizing all that. And on different kinds of cases. On the first, it's the again, these pro-life pregnancy centers in the states weaponizing those.

So that is, again, A major case, and we are fighting to again. make sure that those pregnancy centers aren't going to be targeted that way. And so you've done it, we've talked about Massachusetts. There was a big win out of Maine on this move with the defunding. But this goes to, again, kind of the defaming.

And the state working with private parties to do that. We're also looking at one, this is a vanity plates.

Okay, now we're not talking about The plates like that say choose life that you pick or margarine, you know, it's parrot head or save our streams or protect our first few you went to. You're like, what are they? You know, choose life and conservation. Here there's a lot of great. In Nashville, we see a lot of Dolly Partners.

Dolly Part and Elvis. Elvis. Those are offered by the state itself. Yeah, often small. You can also pay to have custom lettering.

In Virginia, very popular when we were there.

Some places it's more popular. With the most vanity license plates of this is the state of Virginia. It makes it very easy.

Some make it easier, some make it tougher. But the argument here is that when you open that up for people, yeah, there's obscenity laws that come into play, of course. But this person just wanted John 3.16. And they said no, because that's a Christian message on a government license plate. My wife had a Christian message on her vanity tag in the in the in her first car, which we still have that tag.

So, I mean, it's not uncommon, especially for kids who want to showcase their faith and do it maybe in a creative way. Everyone has seen these vanity tags for years, but you have states now saying Too far. You can't open up a form. No one's saying to the state they must allow people to be able to do these tags, but if you allow it, You can't discriminate because you don't like someone's view. And especially as we've seen Logan since the beginning of the ACLJ, they always think they can treat religious speech different than everyone else's speech.

And that is not the case. Religious speech is not profanity. It's no different than if you wanted to somehow do Jimmy Buffet Parrothead or something like that on there. It should all be treated the same if you open the forum. And the forum has to treat everyone equally.

You can have rules in place, but those rules have to apply to everyone. And you can't single out and say, well, we'll allow everything but religion, because that's not how a forum is opened up. And of course, this is different again than the license plate issue, which, by the way, Courts have sided with the government speech argument that we did in Summon, that we won 9-0 at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Our dad argued there with the Ten Commandments in that matter saying, you know, the states can choose. what vanity license plates will they allow people to buy. You know, that's a way that usually it goes to charity. And so it's more expensive than just renewing your plate. And again, some states do this a lot more than others.

You might be in a state that this is like very kind of unheard of. In the South, there's a lot of vanity. In Tennessee, I mean, the choices are almost endless of what you can get. And it says in God we trust on earth. Or it doesn't have to.

Right, you can actually. You can ask for the one that doesn't, right? Yes. And in fact, they sent me one once that did not. And then everyone.

Did you check the box here to say you want that one? I remember. Yes. Yes. I think I checked the box.

And then I got one, and I had a lot of dirty looks when I didn't have the one. God we trust. They're like, this heathen selected. I was like, I did not. It just wasn't at my dealer.

My car dealer put it the wrong one. Yes. But so here you're looking at, again, the government opening up a place for speech. And then saying, but not That kind of speech. And we're talking about the typical John 3.16.

There it is again. You know what it is? People know John 3.16 too well. And Christian or not, you can't get around it. It's too much of a reminder to people about the Christian faith.

I think, like, if it was Isaiah 4.1, I don't even, they might think you're talking about a basketball player or something. Yeah, I think my wife was like some girl for him, you know, something like that.

Something that was kind of innocuous at the time. And of course, if you were in Alabama, you probably knew. But Jordan, as we talk about this, many people may be like, well, I mean, I just have the standard license plate. I don't put that much effort into it. This has broader implications, which is why we are engaging in this.

While it may seem like it's just license plates, is that that big of a deal? Yes, it is because it is a forum. It is speech. It's a triple effect. It could affect students.

It could affect employees. It could affect public spaces that are governed by the government in some way. And so you can't just let something like a license plate case, which may seem novel or kind of a problem. Kind of goofy on its face because it's about license plates, but it really does have broader implications that we have to make sure we protect when religious freedom is under attack, even in this way. That's right.

And I want to go back to that pro-life issue because this is not just happening in Massachusetts. This is out in New Jersey. And it's because the New Jersey Attorney General launched investigations. Into pro-life pregnancy resource centers and accused them, uses the language like, quote, deceptive. deceptive practices only because They offer alternatives to abortion and support women during pregnancy.

A woman that goes in there. knows very quickly they're not They're not going to give you an abortion there. That also doesn't prevent her from leaving and going to get an abortion. It's just saying there are other options. Here they are, and here's how we can help you.

If it's adoption, if it's that you feel like you're not going to be able to provide, we can help you with child care, we can help you with how to raise a child, you know, services, even food. baby formula, things like that, through the whole process. And they demonize. Those as the same thing. They're an alternative to abortion.

And again, that just... tells you who is filling their campaign coffers. It's interesting because when the next case is a political case that we'll talk about, who's filling their campaign coffers? It's the abortion industry. And so they want to shut down any competitors.

It tells you how effective these PRCs are, too. If they weren't effective, They wouldn't be trying to shut them down all the time. Before we run out of time in this segment, let's get to at least one more.

Okay, so this is a political one. This comes out of actually J.D. Vance running for Senate. It's an FEC case. And just to kind of explain it and make it kind of general to people.

There is a ban in time periods. Of political campaigns, and we're talking about federal campaigns here. When a federal campaign cannot coordinate. expenditures with the state Republican Party.

Now, think about that for a minute. The state Republican Party, you were nominated sometimes at the state Republican Party's convention or their primary. And so you're the only nominee for the party. And the FEC is saying you can't even decide. If you want to coordinate your expenditures, this case would not be saying you must.

It's not telling the state Republican Party you have to coordinate with that campaign.

Sometimes people get through those primaries that the state party isn't as behind. They wouldn't be forced to coordinate. But look, a lot of this is also technology, too. Watch campaigns, you'll see a lot of YouTube videos uploaded that aren't edited. And they are, it's so people can take them without coordinating them and then edit their own ads to put up.

But this should be done. And the FEC dropped the case. The DNC is actually fighting this one. All right. We're going to continue that conversation, talk more about that and our other cases going on at the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as, of course, that update from Washington, D.C., Mayor Bowser, and so much more.

All filed today, Logan. That's all today. All three of those were filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by the ACLJ today. Yeah, so you need to go right now.

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So, do it right now. Go to aclj.org. Of course, we are continuing this conversation about what the ACLJ is doing in Washington, D.C., but also what is happening in Washington, D.C. with crime. We have seen a massive reduction in crime since President Trump put in his new plan that was controversial for sure.

But now you have the mayor of Washington, D.C. coming out and praising President Trump, Pam Bondi, the chief of staff. And listen, we haven't played this one yet. I think we should do this. This is another thank you, really, coming from Mayor Bowser.

Again, someone you not expect to be a friendly source to conservatives. And let's hear from Mayor Bowser. I want to say that I have been personally engaged with Attorney General Bondi and the President's Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. And I spoke with the President this afternoon. And I was reminded of our first meeting after his reelection, where we discussed shared priorities for the district.

There, I was reminded that the President's interest in cities predates his time in office. And his knowledge of DC had Significantly increased from the first time he was in the White House. And so we knew that the priorities around safety and investment in infrastructure would be on the President's mind. You got to give it to Mayor Bowser. I have to say this.

There are very few. I'm not going to make people mad. There are very few politicians. that would actually tell you how they feel. Who would understand that their constituents and that the CNNs and the MSNBCs are not going to be thrilled when you praise the President or any of the opposing parties' positions?

I would say that for Republicans too. If you're a Republican, you start saying, Yeah, the Democrats are doing a good job. We live such in a divisive world right now, in a divisive country, that you can't even say that. But for her to come on and now name specifically Pam Bondi, Susie Wiles, and talk about how she's working so closely with them and directly with them, and how we've seen such a success rate: 87% of carjacking is down, no murders happening on the streets. This is a.

This is kind of a moment. And so I just want to say thank you to her. I mean, I know, again, people may not like that, but I don't care. Good for you. For actually saying, you know what, I can reach across party lines.

And not only that, To do it in a way that is honestly unnecessary. It's unnecessarily grateful. Not that it's unnecessarily grateful, that sounds bad. But as a politician, in Joy's world, you wouldn't have to be this kind.

Well, as a matter of fact, in where she says they discussed shared priorities for the district and acknowledged that President Trump cares about safety in cities that predates him even being in office, that's not something you typically hear because the narrative is not that President Trump cares about safety, it's that he's xenophobic and he doesn't like immigrants and he doesn't, he's racist and all of these things. Saying that we knew the President's priorities around safety and investment in the infrastructure would be on the President's mind is actually acknowledging. That he has priorities that can be positive for your city, which sounds absurd to think that that's a dangerous political move for her, but. That's the reality. It is.

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Let's go to Bill, who's in Wyoming. Bill, always a great caller. Go ahead. Thanks for taking my call. I hope I can state this.

I'm kind of confused. But I think we need to ask these people who are in leadership of the governments, will we be, instead of defunding the police, redefining what crime is, and claiming that President Trump is trying to take over this country, that instead of doing that, applying the laws, will we be having this confusion and argumentation?

Well, in reality, that's because there's a lot of things like prosecutorial discretion that are allowed to be done when it comes into the way that the prosecutors, the district attorneys, they're allowed to make judgment calls about what their priorities because there's limited resources.

So, yes, I agree. They need to enforce the laws on the books. But that's even how they get away with things like sanctuary cities, is they make it about a prosecutorial discretion issue rather than a we are, they're not actually. Saying we're not enforcing the law, and that is because their base has told them what their priorities are. And they've gone so far down that lane that it has gotten into the realm of absurdity when you go to a lot of these major cities and you see how bad the crime has gotten because they've been concerned about prosecuting any crime may receive backlash that they are just targeting a specific community or they are just targeting a specific immigration status.

When in reality, the job of these mayors, these chiefs of police, Their job is to keep their city productive, safe. And clean. And in reality, because of the politics of it, they've gone down to a completely different realm of absurdity. That's right. And I think that this should be sort of a breath of fresh air that's happening right now.

Bill, thanks for calling. I want to move on to one more call. Let's go to a little call right now, by the way. Alex calling in California on line three, Alex. Hello.

Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to point out that increasing the amount of a number of police officers are sending in the National Guard troops is not a permanent long term solution for crime in the cities like Washington, DC. Because when we look at Japan, we see that it has twenty percent fewer police officers per capita, but its crime rate is much lower. The principal difference between the two nations is that in Japan, Is a single dominant Western culture which creates social cohesion so people don't feel alienated and mistreat the society. But in the United States, we emphasize smoked cultural diversity and that creates an alienation for people who just can't fit in.

Alex, now you're watching Pluto TV, which is a very interesting outlet to watch our show on Salem News channel. You know, maybe the difference, though, Alex, is that that is how the nation was founded. The nation was founded to be, eventually be this melting pot. A lot of us came from immigrant families who came to this country seeking better lives.

Some of them brought their culture with them.

Some abandoned their culture at the border. I don't think there's necessarily a good reason for people to be able to abandon their culture and their beliefs and anything like that. I believe America uniquely has that. I think you maybe have more issues with that and what's going on in Europe, because in Europe, you've had historical thousands of years maybe for some of this. And now they're seeing this big issue where that's happening.

But in America, that is why we're a little different. That's why we've always been different.

So, you may feel that way, and I understand that, but not really. You have to be able to go: okay, if you're coming into this country, hopefully, there is a sense of pride in the fact that we are this melting pot of cultures. With that You have responsibility, though, to assimilate at least into the side, like you said, involving crime and how you treat people of other beliefs. And that maybe is a bigger concern we need to address at a school level, at a cultural level.

Well, and to his point, using Japan as an example, one, that style of nationalism would not work for the reason you said. One, is that America was a melting pot from the very beginning because it wasn't the people that started America weren't the original inhabitants of the land in general. And that gets into an entire other discussion. They're escaping for a different purpose. Right.

We fled of the tyranny of England to seek a better life in the new world. That is not the case for Japan. And we also have seen historically how the nationalism of Japan, something that they still very treasure, can turn into something very poor for the world, such as Imperial Japan, which the United States fought against in World War II. And the imperialistic, nationalistic Japan killed a lot of our countrymen.

So I don't know that that is necessarily the path forward for America, nor would it work here. No, I don't feel like that. That's very American to begin with. Phone lines are open for you. I think I misspoke and said I'm going to take one more call.

I meant one more call, just like in this segment. I'm going to take more calls at 1-800-684-3110. I also wanted to go back, though, Jordan, and talk about a big breaking news item that happened yesterday. Of course, if you're following the ACLJ for a number of years, Garrett O'Boyle, who was a whistleblower, you've seen him. We've had him on this broadcast multiple times.

There was a gigantic win. It was all overshadowed a little bit yesterday because we were dealing. with that unfortunate shooting, of course, that was happening in Minneapolis.

So to get to sort of the celebratory nature wasn't that easy. But this is a big moment for our ACLJ supporters. This is a case that they've followed for years, and it comes to a complete resolution, which sometimes is harder to say because sometimes those resolutions we can't talk about as much on the air because maybe they're not as public because maybe they were somehow handled privately or they're handled in some sort of settlement. This is a guy who's getting his job back, getting his security clearance back. This is a big moment for the ACLJ and for the supporters who followed this whistleblower case for a number of years.

Absolutely. And, you know, it's still, I mean, it's a very tough situation. It should never happen to anyone. But it has happened to a number of whistleblowers. Remember, Garrett O'Boyle blew the whistle on a number of things.

One was the FBI targeting of pro-life conservatives. He also talked about them politicizing law enforcement, someone that came out about that. And he's the one who testified and said, they will crush you. The FBI will crush you. And so they put him on unpaid leave.

Right after they moved him across country.

So he was, he couldn't even get into his storage facility because it was technically being paid for by the FBI to get his personal items, just had a newborn child. Typically, these are not resolved the way that we just were able to resolve this. And I just want to go through it real quickly for people. Again, you don't want people in this situation, but when they are, this is why you need the ACLJ to fight alongside them when it's in the news and when it's not in the news, because this took years. He got full back pay with interest.

Plus all the years plus damages. Plus, they will look at the time off, paid leave, time off, things like that. That will be added in. He's reinstated. This is very, very rare, even for whistleblowers who successfully.

Sometimes they don't want to go back, even. Many don't. Yeah. But others who. believe in the institution and the rule of law.

Do and he does, he wants to continue to serve. His security clearance is restored. Usually, what happens is you get back pay and your security clearance restored. And if you get that, that's like a huge win for whistleblowers. Most like Darkest Allen, we got something similar to that for a previous whistleblower.

But right, and most don't even think about being reinstated. But the fact is, he got his security clearance back. He will be able to retrieve that money with interest. Damages involved, again, time off, all the vacation time lost, and he is reinstated. He will be able to begin that job he was supposed to.

But it will actually, Logan, the way they're setting it up, it will count as like if he was there for seniority purposes, like he was working because he was on unpaid leave. He never actually left the FBI.

So he fought, we fought alongside him to make him as whole as possible. in this situation and i think this is great for future whistleblowers To know that if you really believe that you need these whistleblower protections, which Congress has, we can defend them. In court, we can defend them in negotiations with the entities themselves, but let's also thank. The new leadership. of these entities.

At the FBI, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino, and at the Department of Justice with Pam Bondi. They went against. The usual department practice, which is we don't care if you blew the whistle on something we like or don't like. Or is wrong or not, if you blow the whistle, we're going to come down on you. They're changing that idea in Washington to say, you know what, if you see something wrong, you should be able to go tell Congress, which provides the funding without fear of retribution.

So we have won this. It sets almost like a new precedent. Up for future whistleblowers. It doesn't mean they won't have to fight, but like we said, that's why the ACLJ exists. I mean, you think about this situation.

He was on unpaid leave.

So who could have had the legal expertise? to represent him at this level. with both the Biden administration and the second Trump and the second Trump administration. And the negotiations and the court cases throughout that entire period, a law firm can't do that. Just for free.

We're able to do that at the ACLJ because of your donations and because of your financial support. That's why Garrett Boyle had the full force of the American Center for Law and Justice behind him. It's because of these matching challenges. It's because of the donations you make. Yeah, we even said this.

I mean, he put out a great statement thanking our team here at the ACLJ. Who knows if we're going to hear from him again? Hopefully, we'll have him on the broadcast, but you know what? He's back at it, back at work.

Okay, you know what? They don't usually put a lot of those guys who are working there. On the media. And you know what? That's good.

Celebrate that. These are big moments. It's like when some of our people graduate out, if you will. Tulsi Gabbard's now the director of national intelligence. Of course, she was on this show multiple times a week.

It's pretty amazing when those moments happen. We're going to take your calls in the next segment. Support the work of the ACLJ. As Jordan said, aclj.org, do it today. Have your gifts doubled.

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I can't believe we're already here. End of August. Three days left. And look, we have three days left in this drive: 35 years of Victory Drive. And I want to say thank you to everyone who's donated.

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So you need to do that. If you've ever thought about becoming a champion, of course, you can cancel at any time. It's tax deductible. But actually, I'm going to kick it over to Greg, who is calling, who is an ACLJ champion. And one of the good parts about being an ACLJ champion, I always say this, is you get bumped to the front of the line.

So if you're not, even if you have mail hold the longest, you tell our phone screener, they confirm you're a champion, boom, you're up to the top. If phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-31-10, but let's kick it over to Greg in California. Go ahead. Yeah, I'd just like to bring up the point that all the progressive DAs across the country are deciding what's a crime and what isn't. and they're even changing a felony to a misdemeanor.

And in California, Newsome fought against the Proposition 47. to repeal it and change it. And now the grocery store is two aisles' worth of things. locked up. You have to have them open the open the gate to get in.

But the DAs are the biggest thing and The left cheats every way they can. Look, that's at a good place, Greg. A lot of times these places are are shutting down. You're seeing some of these stores. You know, you're right.

You go into a Walgreens in San Francisco or a Walgreens in New York City and half of it is locked behind some sort of glass shelf. And then you're not talking about high-end products here.

Well, and Jordan, I want to bring that up because Greg brings up the DA issue and something we've been sounding the alarm about for a long time. But it also kind of plays into something President Trump said just two days ago at that, I think it was a record-breaking cabinet meeting. How long it was because they were live like the whole time. It was three and a half hours. Longer than the Godfather.

But what Greg brings up is these progressive DAs, and we know many of those are funded, especially in places that you never even hear about on the news. But it was a complete philosophy and ideology change, largely backed by the Open Society Foundation. The George Soros money was pushing a lot of these races. We also saw what President Trump talked about during that. He said that there should be a RICO investigation into the way that the Soros Foundation has been funding the street protest.

And that also sets up a very interesting thing where street protests, we know that they're largely not organic in many ways. They may start off as something else and then organic people then join it. But when you have that happening in some of these cities, where then the DA was picked for their philosophy and ideology and supported by the same people that may be funding that. Mm-hmm. That does bring up very severe issues within the way that it's disrupting to our society.

Yes, and I think that when it comes down to it, there is prosecutorial discretion. You know, DAs have and cities have.

So if they feel like there's one area of crime that they need to focus on the most, that's the biggest problem. We're going to focus on this and maybe we're not going to focus on harder drugs differently than we're going to treat marijuana and things like that. What is the issue that they're dealing with the most? It's plaguing the community. But what we saw with these activist DAs is that basically they kind of ignored crime or politicized crime or racialized crime and made it all about politics: well, we can't bring too many charges against this.

Crime because this group is overwhelmingly the people who are being arrested for doing that crime. Instead of just saying, let's get the bad guys and keep people safe, that's what the police bring them in. Our job is to prosecute them and prosecute them to the full extent that the law allows.

So I think what we're seeing. With the mayor's comments and is kind of the What is the response to the American people? The media told us for how long that this was martial law, this is authoritarianism coming. And the vast majority of Americans support this.

So they and it's only happening at a very small scale right now. And they're saying, wow, if this can happen in two weeks in Washington, D.C., how quick could this turn around Portland? How quick could this turn around San Francisco and some places if you just have this surge? that lasts for a few weeks. And then local police feel emboldened again because the bad guys know.

Hey, the surge can return. What is the process for that? Is it getting approval from the states to say, yes, we're cool with this? Uh, when it comes to Washington, D.C. is different.

We've said this, they had no choice. But if you have to go into Chicago, there's some interesting legal issues around this. That's what I'm curious. Again, there are the President of the United States, as the leader of the country has a duty to protect. Citizens of the country.

There's some wiggle room. And so, and then you look at the National Guard versus State Guards, all these kinds of issues that you're at play. Honestly. What I would hope is that These Democrat mayors would say, let's not politicize this one, though. It's almost impossible for them to do that with Donald Trump.

And let's just say, you know what? Hey, it worked in DC. We're going to keep an eye on it. We don't want martial law in our city. But if we need a surge, that brings c violent crime down and less murders and less people being killed.

Why can't we work together on this and then they say they tell us when they're gonna leave? They'll leave, and we'll see. If, when they leave, it will be interesting to know if the crime immediately goes up. And if it does, then it says, you know what? Hey, we have a solution to this.

I think Mayor Bowser's comments actually go a long way to helping a lot of those numbers. A lot of the states and the cities can now go, okay, well, she said it, so why can't we accept it as well?

Well, and as you mentioned, the easiest way for this to happen would be a governor of a state requesting the assistance or federalization of the National Guard from other states being able to assist. But because of the blue state issue, a lot of those aren't going to happen. And remember, when the crime goes down. You're no longer reliant on those politicized liberal DAs. Because what Mayor Bowser's saying is not that we made 87 per Percent more arrests for car jacket.

It's because of the surge of police and security on the streets. There was 87%. Less Acts of carjacking. That means no one had to be arrested, no one had to be prosecuted. The DAs politicizing crime are taken out of it completely because those crimes aren't being committed.

So I want to make that clear. She's not saying it's 87% more that we caught. She's saying 87% less carjackings. That were occurred the same time last year. And if those numbers go down, then when the National Guard leaves, it's more manageable for the police force they have and the DA because then investigation time goes down, response time goes down, people in general are more safe in their community.

So I think that Mayor Bowser there is proving to some point that getting it under control first can have long-term effects for the safety of your population. Yeah, absolutely. Look, we only got one minute left here.

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