Why is President Trump being accused of racism because he pointed out that Baltimore is one of the most crime-ridden cities in America? And why is the left so angry at him for pointing it out? Michael Knowles takes a look at it.
00:06:12.140What does Cummings do for the children that he's represented for 36 years?
00:06:17.160We got in Baltimore, highest crime rate, second highest violent crime rate just behind Detroit, highest murder rate, 50 murders per 100,000 people.
00:06:26.620Baltimore, according to the New York Post pointing this out, has a similar murder rate to Jamaica, Venezuela, and El Salvador.
00:06:33.000Don't just take the right-winger's words for it.
00:06:34.700The left admitted this as well, and they never called the New York Times or Bernie Sanders or any of the other leftists who pointed this out, including the Democratic mayor of Baltimore.
00:07:20.880Everything they make, from bedding to blankets, is made from 100% pure organic cotton.
00:07:25.600So the first night you sleep in them, they are going to feel super cool.
00:07:28.700They are going to feel, if you've ever had the privilege, I have once or twice, of staying at a really nice hotel, it feels like these luxury hotels.
00:07:37.960I mean, it feels like the top-of-the-line hotels.
00:07:39.940Not what I usually stay at, but the real top-of-the-line stuff.
00:12:03.620Even though they know that they're going to have to be arrested in these facilities for a while, they think it's a good bet and eventually they're going to be let out and it's worth doing.
00:12:13.320That's how you know that it's not a concentration camp.
00:12:16.080I don't think all of these illegal aliens are pouring into Baltimore or West Baltimore or Elijah Cummings' district.
00:12:22.640But they are pouring into America and they are staying in these detention facilities.
00:12:27.500It is the case that his district is disgusting.
00:13:25.320Also, if you need a third reason, left-wingers, some of the most prominent left-wingers, the most progressive people in the Democratic Party, have said the exact same things that Trump said about Baltimore.
00:13:36.280And no one ever called them racist for those comments.
00:13:40.060He could have been reading a Trump tweet, and nobody said peep when he made these comments about Baltimore.
00:13:45.760America is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.
00:13:49.040But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation.
00:13:57.720You would think that you were in a third-world country where unemployment is over 50 percent.
00:14:04.480A community that does not even have decent quality grocery stores where moms can buy quality food for their kids.
00:14:14.780A community in which the dream of getting a higher education for many kids is as real as is going to the moon.
00:14:24.900Yeah, all true. Bernie is right, and they didn't call him racist for that.
00:14:29.080And then lest you're still not convinced, the black, democratic, progressive, liberal, left-wing mayor of Baltimore made almost the same comments, admitted that what Trump said is right.
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00:16:25.200So the New York Times admits Baltimore is a tragedy.
00:16:29.100Bernie Sanders uses almost the same words that Donald Trump uses to talk about Baltimore.
00:16:33.220Here is the Democrat mayor, black mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh, just last year using precisely the same words that President Trump was using.
00:16:42.440About a year ago, city leaders identified some of the city's most violent neighborhoods.
00:17:57.000Let's say, let's think about the opposite.
00:17:59.420Let's say that President Trump doesn't say these things.
00:18:01.940Elijah Cummings wages his attack on Trump's DHS acting secretary, on Trump's immigration policy, accuses him of abusing children, all these sort of things.
00:18:13.460The theory here, for the people who don't want him to send the tweets, is that President Trump will avoid a few days of an unnecessary news cycle that calls him racist.
00:18:41.100You know, the more establishment type Republicans say avoid anything that might even possibly be twisted unfairly, unjustly into Democrats calling you a racist.
00:18:53.860I'm not going to talk about anything that could even, even if it's remotely cultural, because if it's sort of cultural, then they might twist it into something racial and then it might be called racist.
00:19:19.300She said that Trump was bankrupt, and Trump viciously, absurdly, hilariously, very cruelly responded to her with a weeks-long tirade in the media.
00:19:33.800Here's just some of how President Trump responded to Rosie O'Donnell.
00:25:16.220I think it is politically smart to throw these tweets out there, to go right at Elijah Cummings, and especially to go right at Al Sharpton.
00:25:54.060Every news cycle, by definition, is basically good for Democrats.
00:25:59.380If it's not perfectly good, at least they will coddle the Democrats, and they'll try to invent non-traversies about conservatives and Republicans.
00:26:36.840Then we'll get to the death penalty, which is coming back at the federal level because the current attorney general wants to actually enforce the law that is on the books.
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00:27:53.660We will be right back with a lot more.
00:27:55.760Okay, is this politically useful for Trump to focus on the tweets, to go right after these cultural issues, to go after Al Sharpton and call him a racist, to go after Elijah Cummings and call him a failure?
00:29:54.860Al Sharpton is extremely unpopular, even in his own neighborhoods.
00:29:59.140There was a Quinnipiac poll a few years ago that actually measured Al Sharpton's favorability.
00:30:05.040His favorability in New York is just 29%.
00:30:08.240In New York, how do you think he plays in Peoria?
00:30:11.220How do you think he plays in real America, you know, the whole middle of the country, between the two coasts?
00:30:17.000In New York, Al Sharpton is just 29% approval, and he's got a 53% disapproval rating.
00:30:25.320What is it in the rest of the country?
00:30:26.920Rallying behind Al Sharpton is a totally losing position, and by going after Al Sharpton, Trump has caused the left to defend him.
00:30:36.120Same strategy when Trump was criticizing Colin Kaepernick.
00:30:39.220You know, a lot of Trump skeptical conservatives, who are genuinely pretty nice guys, so they don't like it when the president's criticizing athletes.
00:30:47.140A lot of them said, please don't criticize the NFL for kneeling.
00:30:50.840Please don't criticize the football players.
00:30:53.360What is the cumulative effect of all of this?
00:30:59.220It's not good to be supporting people who disrespect the American flag.
00:31:03.600The cumulative effect of all of these tweets, you now have Democrats opposing the American flag, opposing Fourth of July parades, opposing our national boundaries and borders, supporting socialists and the squad.
00:31:15.660And in the case of these latest tweets, you've got now Democrats opposing cops and supporting Al Sharpton.
00:31:23.540Even just on the cop thing, even the anti-law enforcement thing that the left is now reacting to President Trump on and opposing law enforcement, whether it's ICE or whether it's local cops.
00:31:34.200Gallup polling shows that cops are basically the most popular institution in the country.
00:31:40.000They're the third most popular institution in the entire country, right after the military and small business.
00:31:45.180So the effect of these tweets is you've got the Democrats defending the least popular people, institutions, and action in this country.
00:31:54.620And they're identifying themselves, right now, they're identifying Trump with the most popular institutions, including the American flag.
00:32:02.280Now, it's not all political bright side for Trump with these tweets.
00:32:06.700I totally acknowledge there is a political downside.
00:32:09.440Because he's a fighter, because he's an insult comic, he makes himself unlikable to a lot of people.
00:32:15.920But President Trump's bet is not to make himself acceptable.
00:33:58.140But from what we see here, it does seem to me like it's a pretty good strategy.
00:34:02.880It seems to me the tweets are working.
00:34:04.720And more importantly, because we're just talking about political realities, if Trump is not ever going to be the perfectly nice behaved guy who's Mitt Romney and smiles and helps little old grannies cross the street, if he's not going to be that guy, if he's going to be a puncher and a fighter and an insult comic, then this is the strategy he has to pursue.
00:35:19.240Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad, says, quote,
00:35:22.360The death penalty has no place in a just society.
00:35:25.580Ilhan Omar, she took a break from sympathizing with Al-Qaeda to call the death penalty a heinous totalitarian practice often used against innocent people, the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment.
00:35:37.280Oh, by the way, all of those people support abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.
00:35:45.500They all support killing innocent babies up until the moment they're born, which is the law now in New York because of the current Democratic governor there.
00:35:53.460In the case of the governor of Virginia, he supports killing babies after they've been born.
00:35:57.260But they don't think that we should kill violent, awful, terrible murderers.
00:36:23.900But according to the left, all those people should live and innocent babies should die.
00:36:29.800One of the stupidest arguments against the death penalty is an argument that disingenuous left-wingers use against conservatives.
00:36:37.220They say, well, if you're pro-life, then you need to be consistent that it's inconsistent to be pro-life but then support the death penalty.
00:37:14.840I think we should save innocent babies from being killed.
00:37:19.200And I think that the civil authority can kill criminals, of course, as has every civilization that has ever existed for all of human history.
00:37:28.280And the reason for that is I'm pro-justice.
00:39:31.240So that's one that we've lost the sense of justice.
00:39:33.680The other reason why I think support for the death penalty has fallen is that we've become functionally a secular, atheistic, materialistic society.
00:39:42.500And this really matters because for all of human history, everywhere in the world, we've had a sense that mankind has something beyond this world.
00:39:53.260In our civilization, we believe that man has an eternal soul.
00:39:56.400We believe that there is justice after you die, that the soul goes on.
00:40:15.240I think it's a silly intellectual fad that is going to pass away.
00:40:19.160But because of that, the thought that we could maybe kill an innocent person is so horrifying.
00:40:28.820Because what we assume is, at that point, that person, their life is over, there is no justice, there's no heaven, there's no hell, there's no nothing.
00:40:38.520There's no eternal soul, we're just kind of meat puppets.
00:40:43.120I mean, we've become a country that's, and a civilization, that's basically accepted the John Lennon song as our theology.
00:40:48.960Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.
00:40:50.940And that's because we believe that, then the very fact that the criminal justice system is imperfect, and maybe it'll only be one in a thousand, maybe it'll be one in ten thousand, but at some point, some innocent guy is going to be killed if we carry out the death penalty with any sort of significant size.
00:41:13.580That's so horrifying to us, we immediately back away from that.
00:41:18.860That's not really an intellectual point of view, because the criminal justice system is always going to be imperfect.
00:41:24.380Do we really think it's better, it's more compassionate to accidentally sentence an innocent man to 40 years in prison, rob him of his entire life, and he's just sitting there on a bench, decaying for 40 years, rather than accidentally sending an innocent man to the firing squad?
00:41:43.960I mean, they're both just so awful, but all human institutions have to accept that degree of imperfection.
00:41:50.200We want to improve them, we want to make them better.
00:41:52.040We've obviously been able to do that now with DNA testing, but if you really believe that we're all just meat puppets and the lights go out when you die, it's just on an emotional level.
00:42:04.800It's so much more horrifying that you've got to back away, even if you're a little bit of a right-winger.
00:42:09.260This is too bad, because a society that doesn't understand capital punishment has lost an important sense of justice.
00:42:20.360It's lost an important sense of its own purpose, lost an important sense of the natural order and the natural law.
00:42:26.340I'm glad that the Attorney General has moral clarity on this.
00:42:29.740I'm glad that just as a basic level that we're just enforcing the law now, as opposed to just unilaterally like some self-appointed king deciding which laws to enforce and which laws not to enforce.
00:42:40.600But I wish more people would think real hard about their objections to the death penalty.
00:42:46.540And maybe where they come from, and maybe why society has changed its view on this so dramatically over time.
00:42:54.540Before we go, really quick, great news from the Supreme Court.
00:42:57.920Also not being covered enough, the court has ruled 5-4 that President Trump can use Pentagon funds to build part of the border wall.
00:43:11.240And so he tried to use the military, the Pentagon funds, to do it.
00:43:17.140A few different places he's trying to do this.
00:43:18.700This Supreme Court decision has to do with specifically $2.5 billion of funds from the Pentagon that will allow Trump to build up to 100 miles of the wall.
00:43:28.940This is a double whammy win for the White House.
00:43:31.460And I was going after the White House last week because Trump has a major political vulnerability going into 2020,
00:43:38.580which is that one of his central campaign promises, build the wall, hasn't happened.
00:43:43.040And he's said that it's happened, but he ain't telling the truth.
00:43:47.120There was a CBP report that came out, Customs and Border Protection, that showed that not one mile, not one inch of new wall has been built since he was elected in 2016.
00:44:51.400It allows him to appeal to some conservatives who are a little skeptical of Gorsuch and of Kavanaugh and say, look, we got it where it counted.
00:45:01.080Give me four more years and I'll build a hundred miles more, hopefully a thousand miles more wall.
00:45:05.380And I'll get you more Supreme Court judges if Ruth Bader Ginsburg ever admits, or rather if her handlers ever admit that we've got a Weekend at Bernie situation going on.
00:45:15.540Just saying, whenever those seats open up, that's going to be the pitch.
00:45:19.060I think it's a major victory, which is why the mainstream media aren't covering that much.
00:45:24.100Now the question is, can he start to build that wall?
00:45:28.100Because it's not enough just to get the money.