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Back to episode — Episode 2927 CWSA 08/14/25

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was coming down. Now let's talk about the trap that Trump has set for the Democrats, which apparently on Morning Joe, Mika and Chris Matthews have both caught on that when Trump goes hard against crime in Washington DC, it forces the Democrats to be soft on crime, which is such a losing position. It's such a losing position. It's absolutely hilarious that they're falling for it. Not only are they…

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e division in the pundits because not all of the pundits want to look like idiots. For example, if you've been watching CNN for a while, as I have, they have a legal analyst who's on there all the time, Eli Honig. Now Eli Honig, even though he shows up on these highly biased broadcasts, I've never seen him lie. I don't know if he's ever said anything that turned out not to be right, but I've never seen him do the obvious lies that the other pundits do and the twisting things. He's pretty much a straight shooter. And he says that he apparently lives or works or both in Washington DC and he's basically siding with Trump on going hard on the crime. So he's a CNN guy who's saying yeah I live there it's dangerous and they need to do something and what else are you going to do? So Eli Honig pretty much taking Trump's side, which you don't see a lot on CNN unless it's Scott.

And then Hillary Clinton weighed in. She's one of the designated liars. So I want you to see if you notice this about the Democrats. I always talk about the designated liars. They would be like Swalwell and Schiff and Raskin and Hillary Clinton. They're designated liars. And Schumer. But here's the thing. Also Brennan and Clapper. Don't they look like they're lying when they're talking? Hillary Clinton has a liar smile. That is such a tell. She has a satisfying smile when she tells you that Putin must have his hand right in Trump's pants. Look at my satisfying smile. It's telling you that I know I'm just making this up. I'm just lying to you right now. And Schumer has that same liar's satisfied smile. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. President Trump, I believe he ate a baby. And the same thing with Brennan and Clapper. You just listen to them and you say to yourself, they look like they're bad actors who have been cast in the role of being a liar in a movie and they want the audience to know they're lying because the movie requires that. But they're not actually admitting they're lying. They're just signaling that they're lying.

You know when you watch a movie and the evil character comes on and the evil character is saying, "Yeah, I'll take care of your friend. Don't you worry. I'll take care of him." And you know, oh my god, they say they'll take care of the friend, but the way they say it looks so obviously like a lie. Well, that's what the theater kids and the Democrats do. When they lie, they've got this little troop of official liars who do most of the really serious lying. Even I'm seeing a picture in the comments of Newsom. Newsom has that liar smile too.

So here's what Hillary Clinton said about DC. Remember, she's a designated liar. So her lies will be the most outrageous type. She says on X, "As you listen to an unhinged Trump try to justify deploying the National Guard in DC, here's the reality. Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low." The crime statistics are at a 30-year low. And what is being left out of that story? Well, it could be the fact that there was just a lawsuit, dismissed against a DC police person who said the numbers are faked to look lower same day. And then there's also the argument that even if it's at a 30-year low, it's still outrageously high. So first of all, it's not at a 30-year low because the crime stats are gamed. But even if it was, it would still be one of the most murderous cities in the entire planet. Are you supposed to ignore that you're number four in murder because it's a lot better than it used to be? These are pathetic, outrageous, theatrical lies.

And if you saw Clinton delivering this in person, I guarantee you she'd have her liar smile on because she'd be so happy to tell you her lie about Trump being unhinged. So watch for that. And then Chuck Schumer put on his liar face and said, "I feel perfectly safe walking around in DC. They're full of it." So I've seen a number of influencers suggest that these people who say it's safe strap a GoPro camera to their head and simply walk around at night and film it for us so we can see how safe it is. So far, no takers. For some reason, they don't want to put on the GoPro camera and walk around.

But the DC police union chairman Greg Patten, he says it's preposterous to suggest that cumulatively we've seen a 60% drop in violent crime from where we were in 2023 because we're out in the street. We know the calls we're responding to. So according to the DC police union, crime is not so good. Not so good.

And then MSNBC had one of their characters, Anthony Koulas, who also was agreeing with Trump. He says, "I live in Washington. This is personal for me. Many people are frustrated with crime. They go to CVS to buy deodorant and they have to get it from behind the locked plexiglass." So if you're keeping score, MSNBC has been fractured and their pundits will not back the MSNBC story that Trump is unhinged and there's no problem to be solved. And that's because they have personal experience there and it would be embarrassing to say that they hadn't noticed the crime.

But then as I mentioned, Chris Matthews and Mika Brzezinski were talking on MSNBC and they both agreed that it's a trap that Trump has successfully laid, another trap. Now here's my question. Did Trump do that absolutely intentionally? As in when he looked at all the problems he could work on, did he say to himself, all right, well this DC crime thing I could ignore like everybody else has ignored, but if I don't ignore it, it's going to be this excellent trap to catch the Democrats. I feel like he plays on multiple levels, meaning that he knew it would be just a good thing to do, and he's right. It's just a good thing to do and it would make him look strong. And it would be a trap that the Democrats would walk right into because they really are that dumb. And it turns out they walked right into it. Not only did they walk into it, they knew they were doing it while they were walking into it.

I would like to do my impression now of a Democrat who's completely aware they're walking into a wood chipper that was put there by the president. All right. Now my impression of a Democrat heading towards the wood chipper. Hey, looks like there's a wood chipper over there. And I seem to be walking right at it. Oh, that's the first time I've ever done the Democrat walking into the wood chipper. So if it wasn't perfect, just know it was my first.

So then Trump does his usual fantastic persuasion. And on Truth Social, he went through all the problems in DC and why he has to get tough on them. But look how visual he is. He says everything has to be locked up. Don't you immediately see the locks on the products? It's visual, right? Everything needs to be locked up. People staying home, you can see it. You see the family sitting in the living room all bored because they want to go out, but it's too dangerous. You just see them sitting there. He says one of the highest murder rates in the world. Getting back to the point, it doesn't matter if it got a little bit better, it's still one of the highest murder rates in the world. Are you going to ignore that? He says there's gang youth violence, which I immediately can picture. I see a gang of young people and they look dangerous. He says people are giving up on calling the police. I don't know if that's completely true, but it definitely sounds like it could be. So that's good persuasion. People are living in fear. He says people are captive prisoners in their own city. So now you imagine them in a jail cell that should be their home. And vehicle theft is three times the national average. And you see the car. You actually see the car.

Now look how visual that is because visual persuasion is the best. Even if it's being described, if the verbal description causes you to form a picture in your head, that's really good persuasion. And if that picture is scary, that's the best persuasion. So you want it to be visual and you want it to be scary. And he pulled off both of those. He told you about all the scary things that the residents are going through. And he made it visual. And then he said that with the new forces that they've surged into DC, the National Guard, and I guess there's some FBI people, but with the extra help, they got 103 arrests in one week after it got federalized. Now I don't even know if that's a lot. As someone who's not there, it sounds like a lot. I mean, where were these people that they got arrested? Were they all at home or were they on the street doing something that got them arrested? I'd like to know more, but it sounds like progress.

So far, I'd say this Washington DC thing is just a total home run politically for Trump. And then on the two-way podcast, I saw a Democrat Dan Tarantin say, "Unfortunately, the Democratic Party is falling into a trap." So he sees it too. So the fact that they all see it as a trap and then they walk right into it, does that tell you everything you need to know that they're so addicted to being anti-Trump that he can say, look, here's this big wood chipper. It's a trap. I mean, it's really just a trap. If you get near it, it'll just chip you right up. So don't get near it. Oh, so you're so unhinged. You think we can't get near a wood chipper? Suddenly you think a wood chipper is all dangerous? That would be the sound of the wood chipper. Yeah, that's also the first time I've tried to imitate the sound of a wood chipper. So I know if it wasn't that good. Remember, it was my first try. Might be more of that coming up.

But Dan Tarantin also pointed out that Trump was being a little hyperbolic. He says, "I share the frustration that Trump described DC as Mogadishu. It is not. But crime is a problem. Friends in DC tell him that it's changed even some of the nicest neighborhoods." Now here's how to know that you're winning. If you're Trump, if you can make the Democrats argue about whether or not Washington DC is worse than Mogadishu or not, you won. You can declare a victory. If you spend any time at all talking about I don't think it's as bad as Mogadishu, I feel like you went too far comparing it to Mogadishu. If you're even in that conversation, that's a Trump wins that conversation.

Trump says that Democrats are being led by insane people and it's a waste of time to work with them. How much do I love that? That they're being led by insane people. Yeah. They're the ones who are in favor of more crime in Washington DC and men playing women's sports and he does have an argument that the most insane, the open border people, no cash bail, it does feel insane. Now I'm no mental health expert so I'm not going to say it is technically insane but when you're just talking to people does it sound insane? It does. This sounds a little bit insane. So when he says there's just no point in talking to them, they're going to disagree with everything. I agree.

And he says, he was talking to Breitbart News I guess with this, he said that the Democratic Party is quote broke or broke itself. Says the Democratic Party broke themselves and they're continuing to do so. And Trump pointed out what I did, the men and women's sports and how bad their policy is tormenting them. And Trump points out that the Democrats are taking the 80-20 issues and they're taking the 10 and there are 95-5s and I don't know who the fives are. There are 95-5 issues where 5% are on the other side. He goes and

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I don't know who the five are which is funny. And to prove his point, the DC mayor has now gone from seemingly helpful and agreeing with Trump about needing a little help all the way to she wants to see residents of DC to fight back against the National Guard takeover. And she's calling it an authoritarian push. Do you know what the best form of government would be if you could get it? Now I'm n…

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