Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 171 LIVE: Harris Is A Failure (feat. Dr. Darren Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

Dr. Darren Beattie is the publisher and founder of Revolver News, a site dedicated to reporting on all things crime and justice. In this episode, he talks about the Democratic response to the hearings on immigration and crime in the wake of President Trump's victory in the CNN primary debate, and how the mainstream media failed to cover up the massive increase in violent crime under the leadership of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and why we should be mad at them for it. He also explains why the DOJ should be doing a better job of protecting the public s safety, and what we should do to make sure that we don't continue to fall victim to the fake statistics that the DOJ releases each and every day, and that the American people do their own crime statistics, and make sure they're accurate and fair. Join us Friday morning at 5:00am ET as we re broadcasting live from Room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. as we discuss the results of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, crime, and justice, and the impact of the Trump administration's immigration policies on crime and immigration policies in the 21st century. Subscribe to Firebrand to stay up to date with the latest breaking news and get the most accurate crime statistics on the breaking headlines you can find on the ground. Today's episode is brought to you by Revolver, Inc., the leading investigative reporting website covering crime, corruption, policing, and immigration, law enforcement, and politics. Firebrand is produced by the Firebrand, and is your source for all in one place you can get the full story on it all on the issues you care about! Subscribe today using the most important things going on in the breaking news you need to keep up with the breaking story you can t get in the coming days in the fight for justice and accountability in the world. You won t want to miss it! Get your own copy of the best investigative reporting on crime, truth, facts, facts and analysis from the breaking the facts you need, and everything else going on right here on Firebrand. Subscribe to our new and true crime and more! Subscribe and share it so you won t miss it on the next episode of Firebrand! - Firebrand's newest podcast, Firebrand and keep up to speed with the most authentic reporting on the most powerful podcast in the most influential podcast on the highest-quality sources in the business and places you can trust.

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:02:06.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:02:09.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:02:13.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:02:19.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gates, for holding the line.

00:02:23.000 Matt Gates is a courageous man.

00:02:25.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gates in D.C., the country turns around.

00:02:30.000 It's that simple.

00:02:30.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:02:35.000 Matt Gates.

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00:02:36.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you. 0.99

00:02:42.000 We will save America.

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00:02:55.000 We're broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington DC. It's Friday and we are going to have a focus on crime and justice in this discussion.

00:03:07.000 And it's really interesting here on Capitol Hill, we showed you the hearings in yesterday's episode from the committee where victims of violent crime were talking about the policy changes That directly resulted in deteriorating conditions from them.

00:03:21.000 We talked about migrant crime and how we're creating a whole new class of criminals and a whole new class of victims as a consequence of what's happening on the border, essentially having no border, flying people in as a consequence of them just getting on the CBP1 app and claiming asylum. 0.92

00:03:38.000 But then you have also The Kamala Harris approach to this where they've trotted out Merrick Garland to say that norms at the Justice Department are really important to be maintained.

00:03:53.000 And he does this big pep rally out at the Department of Justice where they get everyone together and say, They are the great protectors and defenders of the norms of justice.

00:04:02.000 I wrote an essay that published in Real Clear Politics that the AG's pep rally is dispositive proof that in fact it was President Trump who prevailed in the debate recently because it was Trump who made the allegation that the Justice Department had been weaponized against him.

00:04:21.000 That was not sufficiently answered by the Vice President and so they had to go and run Merrick Garland out To make the case that she was unsuccessful at. 0.60

00:04:32.000 If she had prevailed on that point in the debate, they would have allowed her words to be what would be ringing in their advertisements and in their earned media. 0.65

00:04:40.000 Instead, they had to go trot out Merrick Garland.

00:04:43.000 And there's another point about crime stats where President Trump was vindicated once again.

00:04:48.000 The term has been heard throughout the country.

00:04:51.000 Trump was right, whether it was the Russia hoax or the Ukraine impeachment hoax. 0.82

00:04:56.000 Now it's the crime rates that we see under the policies that are embraced by Kamala Harris.

00:05:01.000 We heard during the debate the other night that violent crime hadn't gone up.

00:05:05.000 That was the big moderator fact check.

00:05:08.000 The reality is actually the difference.

00:05:12.000 So you had Muir saying in the debate, quote, the FBI says overall violent crime rates are coming down.

00:05:18.000 Well, it turns out that was yet another bit of fake news from the mainstream media.

00:05:22.000 Today, a new DOJ report comes out showing how crime rates have soared into the stratosphere under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

00:05:32.000 In 2020, Trump's last full year in office, there were about 1.5 million violent crimes, excluding the simple assaults.

00:05:40.000 Now by 2023, that number is about 2.5 million.

00:05:44.000 It's an increase of about a million crimes.

00:05:47.000 So why do they continue to lie to us?

00:05:50.000 You had total violent crime during Trump's last year in office at a steady decrease from prior years.

00:05:57.000 It was a steady decrease.

00:05:59.000 It was going down.

00:06:00.000 And now you've got...

00:06:03.000 A massive increase in this amount of violent crime.

00:06:06.000 And it begs the question, was Trump actually debating Kamala Harris or was it the moderators?

00:06:12.000 Regardless, there's no denying it now.

00:06:14.000 Violent crime was going down under Trump.

00:06:15.000 It's been increased during Kamala's stay at the Naval Observatory.

00:06:22.000 I'm joined now by Dr. Darren Beattie.

00:06:25.000 He is the publisher at Revolver News.

00:06:28.000 Revolver News is a terrific website, revolver.news.

00:06:31.000 You're going to get the breaking news there, you're going to get the analysis, you're going to get some of the best investigative reporting on what's going on in the country, and you're also going to get the buried leads from the mainstream media.

00:06:43.000 That Dr. Beattie and his team will pull out at revolver.news and make sure you're getting the full story.

00:06:49.000 And there's been some great reporting that you've been sharing and publishing on revolver.news regarding some of this migrant crime.

00:06:57.000 But before we get to that, Dr. Beattie, How should the American people react to kind of the deep fake that is the sell job that the FBI, DOJ try to do with the release of these crime statistics when people live the experience of their own safety each and every day and folks just instinctively know that you're less safe now on America's streets than you were when Trump was president?

00:07:23.000 Well, you know, that's a really great question.

00:07:25.000 And sometimes it's hard to parse these things out because there is a certain bias toward, you know, people being exposed to the reality of crime more through sort of viral social media clips.

00:07:39.000 It could lead people to maybe incorrectly extrapolate, you know, what's really going on more broadly.

00:07:45.000 I will admit, myself, the statistics that you just showed, Because my intuitive sense would have been that violent crime is still very high, unacceptably high.

00:08:00.000 And my sense was that sort of quality of life, sort of lesser-tier crimes, not murder, but quality of life stuff like the shoplifting we see and the conditions leading to the deterioration of the commons and those types of things are at an all-time high.

00:08:16.000 But my...

00:08:18.000 Per se...

00:08:21.000 Well, and less as at, say, the apex of the George Floyd fiasco in 2020. But the statistics that showed indicate that that's not actually the case, that we're actually worse off now in terms of violent crime, even than the summer of Floyd period, which was, I think, sort of a local maximum for quite a We're violent.

00:08:51.000 So I'm even astonished to see how high violent crime is across the board, not just what I thought would have been at the apex right now, which is these sort of not murder, but quality of life versions of crime like, you know, convenience store theft and muggings and things like this.

00:09:12.000 So it's actually remarkable to see.

00:09:15.000 But at the end of the day, it's really not too far off the intuition.

00:09:18.000 We see the basic presence of civilized life on a day-to-day basis, and that's become the new reality in Biden, Kamala's America.

00:09:31.000 And it's the policies that they continue to champion, that they celebrate, that they say are effective.

00:09:36.000 And I was recently in New York, and I had to endure the demoralizing and humiliating experience of, like, Having to hit a button and call for a store employee at a Walgreens just to get a razor blade.

00:09:53.000 You just think, in the third world, they don't live like this.

00:09:57.000 No, they don't.

00:09:59.000 And we're accepting it.

00:10:00.000 And I believe that when they do the soft on crime stuff for the retail theft that you actually increase the acuity of more violent crimes as well because you're saying what you're willing to tolerate.

00:10:13.000 And if directionally you're willing to tolerate more violations of law...

00:10:18.000 Then that's what you're going to get, not just in that isolated area where you expressly demonstrate your tolerance, but you're going to get it up and down the acuity levels of different types of crime.

00:10:28.000 But the new wave of crime is the migrant crime, and there's been some good reporting at revolver.news on this.

00:10:35.000 I want to go to the piece that you put up just days ago.

00:10:38.000 Shocking update.

00:10:39.000 Pet-eating Haitians in Ohio aren't the worst part of Harris Biden's latest migrant deception.

00:10:45.000 And you shared a post from...

00:10:48.000 Creative dreamer.

00:10:49.000 And here's the post.

00:10:51.000 Absolutely heartbreaking moment in Springfield, Ohio.

00:10:54.000 Residents tell mayor that she can't take it anymore as Haitian migrants squat on her lawn, litter in her yard, and harass her elderly husband daily. 1.00

00:11:03.000 The mayor of Springfield does not want the people to see this.

00:11:07.000 And that's what people can say if they go check it out at revolver.news.

00:11:10.000 And here's how the reporting continues.

00:11:13.000 In case you didn't realize, the U.S. is now being invaded by a horde of pet-eating Haitian migrants. 1.00

00:11:18.000 These uncivilized migrants have been settled in small towns across America, and now they're eating people's pets and the ducks and geese at local parks. 1.00

00:11:26.000 Not to mention, they're causing massive filth in these towns and squatting in people's lawns.

00:11:31.000 It's gotten so bad, the residents of these towns and communities are literally begging their elected officials for help.

00:11:37.000 And I will add on to this, when I went to Yuma, Arizona, I met with some of the farmers and they said that these hordes of Haitians would come over and just set up in the middle of their grain fields or in their lettuce fields.

00:11:49.000 And with the Health requirements, understandably, that they're under from their own professional association, they have to then destroy tons of crops that fuel their opportunity to continue to keep land under agriculture management.

00:12:06.000 And they specifically talked about the groups of Haitians being very entitled, being very violent, Refusing to leave, whereas groups from other countries, while it's certainly a challenge and devastating and destructive, there wasn't the confrontational element that people shared with me about the groups of Haitians.

00:12:31.000 So what brought you to this story?

00:12:34.000 How are people reacting to it on Revolver, Darren?

00:12:38.000 No, it's a great question, a very important issue.

00:12:41.000 I just want to return briefly to your mark that you don't even see some of this stuff in the actual third world.

00:12:47.000 And I think that gestures toward a very important point that sheds light on the nature of the dystopia in which we live under Bob.

00:12:57.000 And that is typically you have either a Draconian kind of centralized government surveillance state, no liberties, but you at least get a bit of safety and security out of that.

00:13:15.000 There are not a lot of, you know, migrant crime on the streets of Pyongyang, for instance, notwithstanding all of the other reasons you wouldn't want to live there. 1.00

00:13:25.000 But there's this weird sense in which we experience worlds, which we live in a country now Where you can get arrested, charged, and convicted of a felony for circulating memes mocking Hillary Clinton.

00:13:41.000 Yet migrants can come in, complete open borders, rampant criminality, robbing convenience stores, robbing citizens, squatting on citizens' property without any accountability whatsoever. 1.00

00:13:57.000 So it's this Ordinary citizens have to endure maximum restriction on liberty and don't even get the payoff of a commensurate degree of security and safety.

00:14:14.000 So it's like we're picking the worst aspects of the third world and the worst aspects of sort of a technologically advanced surveillance state.

00:14:23.000 And I think that really Characterizes what is distinctive about this that we're living in, in the United States in 2024. And as to the, you know, migrant crime, the new crime with Haitians, I mean, all the stuff with pets is, it's very scandalous, it's very visceral, and it touches people on a kind of... 1.00

00:14:49.000 On a psychological level that I think invites people to understand the scope of the problem.

00:14:55.000 It's such a tangible expression of the cultural that I think exists more broadly with respect to the types of immigration that we've had for a while now, but it's just so acute and it's so undeniable and it's such a kind of scandalous expression of this. 0.98

00:15:19.000 That I think the silver lining is it actually really helps people to grasp the depth of the problem when it comes to our open border crisis as such.

00:15:30.000 And you're seeing just, and frankly, just incredibly sad People.

00:15:37.000 These are not wealthy people.

00:15:39.000 These are, you know, what Trump calls the forgotten American.

00:15:43.000 And is it, you know, it's bad enough that we've immiserated the forgotten American by outsourcing their jobs to other countries, by demonizing them with a steady stream of decades long sort of racially antagonistic propaganda against All of the crimes that our ruling class has visited upon the forgotten American.

00:16:08.000 But to add the ultimate insult to all of those injuries, you'd think, at the very least, can we expect the government not to dump on our communities, on our rural communities, on our forgotten communities, such that their pets are being eaten?

00:16:25.000 Can we even expect that?

00:16:27.000 It's a low bar, Dr. B. It's a pretty low bar.

00:16:30.000 Just as a basic item of that contract. 0.98

00:16:35.000 Can our criminal government, at the very least, not dump Haitians in our communities that rip the heads off of geese? 1.00

00:16:45.000 But apparently we can't even expect that. 0.99

00:16:48.000 And that is downright outrageous.

00:16:52.000 It's so well said.

00:16:53.000 And Yeah, the most powerful country in the world should at least be able to protect your community from tens of thousands of immigrants being dumped in, causing a destabilization of the social fabric. 1.00

00:17:07.000 And I love that the media on the left now, What they choose to parse is the distinction between geese and pets.

00:17:15.000 And Andy Biggs was on my show yesterday and he has had geese as pets.

00:17:18.000 But I think that's missing the broader point, right?

00:17:21.000 If you take your children down to the local pond and park and you feed the ducks and the geese a little bit of bread and have a warm family moment, that's Americana.

00:17:30.000 Like, I remember doing that with my grandmother, you know, around the little pond where she lived.

00:17:35.000 And just, like, the thought that our community would then have to deal with someone...

00:17:39.000 Decapitating the geese in front of the community is a little much.

00:17:44.000 Liberty Lantern on X says, Yuma's my hometown and it's been destroyed.

00:17:49.000 Phil on Facebook says, Dr. BD rocks and he used about eight S's.

00:17:53.000 So Phil's pretty fired up about that.

00:17:54.000 There's another story I want to get to on Revolver.News.

00:17:57.000 You published this just the other day.

00:18:00.000 Breaking 71-year-old grandmother killed by Haitian parents.

00:18:04.000 I'll read from the piece.

00:18:34.000 is a 71-year-old grandmother who was simply taking out the trash when a reckless driver mowed her down, killing her.

00:18:41.000 The worst part, the driver wasn't even held accountable.

00:18:45.000 Some of that coming out of the reporting from the great in-on account on Twitter, Kanoka the Great.

00:18:50.000 And there's also some data here about where these folks are coming from.

00:18:56.000 To Dr. Beattie's earlier point about What happens when you bring in the third world? 0.97

00:19:01.000 Haiti is by far the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with a GDP per capita at about $1,748.

00:19:08.000 Haiti is the 12th most deadly country in the world with 40.9 homicides per 100,000.

00:19:15.000 Haiti's education system is ranked 177th globally with a literacy rate of 61%.

00:19:22.000 Haiti has one of the highest prevalences of communicable diseases in the world, the highest STD and tuberculosis rates in the Western Hemisphere.

00:19:31.000 Nearly 40% of all Haitians practice some form of voodoo, which involves witchcraft and animal sacrifice.

00:19:37.000 And Haiti is ranked the lowest on the human development index in this region of the Americas.

00:19:44.000 But other than that, it's a great country.

00:19:46.000 Other than that, bring them on over.

00:19:48.000 Y'all come, as they say in the South.

00:19:52.000 And again, the story of this 71-year-old woman doing nothing, essentially getting mowed down and struck by an immigrant. 0.87

00:20:00.000 What I don't think the open borders people realize, they go out and they go find, rhetorically, the most sympathetic classes of immigrants.

00:20:09.000 They say, oh, what about the children brought here by their parents?

00:20:12.000 And I mean, Your heart of court, you don't blame a five-year-old child for the immigration policies of the United States, right?

00:20:20.000 Now, you're not saying amnesty, but you certainly don't blame the kid for that.

00:20:25.000 Whereas, you know, here, I think the stories have to be told about the class of victims that are in acceptable collateral damage in exchange for the open border policies.

00:20:38.000 Dr. B? No, it's just so unbelievably...

00:20:44.000 Stupid and counterproductive and you know in the case of these traffic violations and just traffic mess my understanding speaking to some sources in Ohio is that basically if they had anything like a license in Haiti they can just transfer that over and they're giving them tests in their own language that are sort of doctored such that they're basically just handing them licenses which could help And God 0.99

00:21:14.000 knows what kind of harvesting plans the authorities have for these Haitians, but they're effectively given these licenses, handed out these licenses. 0.99

00:21:23.000 They have no understanding of the normal rules of the road and they're just such tragic stories of people losing their lives unnecessarily.

00:21:33.000 As a result of these traffic accidents.

00:21:36.000 And again, is this unique to Haitians? 0.75

00:21:39.000 No.

00:21:40.000 But it's especially acute here to enter in and accept the problem more generally of migration.

00:21:49.000 If people look at statistics regarding drunk driving, they're especially high in Latin America.

00:21:57.000 Communities that have been pouring into the border for a long time.

00:22:01.000 And so with the Haitians, the traffic problem helps to kind of introduce people to the larger dangers of having people come in from third world countries that are large speaking incompatible culturally and across other dimensions. 1.00

00:22:20.000 And these are very tangible You know, people actually die from these traffic accidents, not to mention all of the indirect ramifications of that to the economy and otherwise.

00:22:33.000 And the structure of it is just whenever short-term commercial interests marry with the kind of left-wing anti- Undergirds the immigration problem that you have,

00:22:55.000 you know, these factories and businesses in Ohio that are of the profit margins that come from being able to hire these Haitians for basically nothing. 1.00

00:23:07.000 But the Haitians aren't cheap.

00:23:09.000 It's just that these factories aren't paying the full costs. 0.73

00:23:12.000 The citizens of Ohio that are being run over.

00:23:17.000 Those are the people paying the people who have Haitian immigrants squatting on their property.

00:23:23.000 Those are the people paying.

00:23:25.000 The taxpayers paying for the additional burdens on hospitals.

00:23:29.000 Those are the people paying.

00:23:30.000 So in this very narrow sense, some of these factories are able to get away with paying Haitians like $9 an hour versus the $20 an hour.

00:23:41.000 God forbid they'd have to pay an American. 0.79

00:23:43.000 But when you add up all of the social items, Because they're far more expensive.

00:23:50.000 It's just that the taxpayers and citizens have to pay for it.

00:23:56.000 And so you almost wonder, you know, I have a kind of a riff on the military industrial complex.

00:24:03.000 I'm saying they make so much money off of these wars.

00:24:06.000 Wouldn't we be better off just like calculating how much money they would have made on the Ukraine?

00:24:13.000 And just having the government give Raytheon that amount of money and just the actual war so at least innocent lives won't be unnecessarily lost. 0.91

00:24:24.000 Maybe there could be a similar idea for the immigration thing is find out how much these, you know, stupid factories, you know, benefiting off of like $5 an hour or whatever, find out how much they would benefit and just like give them the money and maybe, you know, skip the Haitian part. 0.95

00:24:43.000 So, you know, the economics of it are really kind of a disaster. 0.97

00:24:51.000 And the cultural factors as well, I think, are very poignantly captured in the stories of the various headless geese and such. 0.99

00:25:05.000 I think there will be more such stories.

00:25:07.000 And if folks want to see what's going on and help us tell the stories of the victims of these policies and the way, not just the victims of people who get run over, but the general degradation of American life that Dr. Beatty's been discussing, You're going to want to go to revolver.news.

00:25:24.000 That's where you'll get that stuff.

00:25:26.000 I'm a premium member there, so I don't have to see all the ads, which is pretty great.

00:25:29.000 I want to get to one more question before we let you go, Dr. Beattie.

00:25:33.000 And I want you to zoom out.

00:25:34.000 And I've really heard two theories of the case as it comes to the vice president's governing philosophy, right?

00:25:39.000 One is that she believes in nothing.

00:25:42.000 She is just a person who is singularly driven by ambition.

00:25:47.000 She's been very successful as a machine candidate. 1.00

00:25:50.000 Coming through California's state government and then into the Senate and then into the Naval Observatory.

00:25:56.000 And then there's another theory of the case that she's an avowed Marxist.

00:25:59.000 That whether it's her familial history and the values that she expressed as a DA, as Attorney General, then to the left of Bernie Sanders in the United States Senate, that actually that's how she'll govern.

00:26:12.000 So do you view her as like a You know, a holder of a dangerous ideology, or do you view her merely as a vessel through which others will play to an ideology, but really have kind of the same mentality that's governed Biden?

00:26:29.000 Yeah, you know, that's a very interesting question.

00:26:31.000 And it's always a difficult, but I think important exercise to try to grasp, you know, the belief structures of people like this.

00:26:41.000 I think, ultimately, it's kind of elusive.

00:26:43.000 If I had to guess just what my gut feeling is, is I don't think that she is really a committed ideologue.

00:26:55.000 There's moreness there, combined with ambition.

00:26:59.000 That's just my intuitive sense.

00:27:01.000 But ultimately, I don't think it really matters.

00:27:05.000 Because either way, Kamala will represent, you know, inertia. 0.50

00:27:11.000 Everything just getting worse along the same course, the same direction, just with accelerated momentum.

00:27:19.000 A Kamala presidency would mean all of the weaponization of the bureaucracy, All mental DEI that's contributed to now a very visible collapse in our ability to maintain the basics of a complex civilization.

00:27:38.000 The crime that's run rampant throughout everywhere.

00:27:42.000 All of these things will remain in motion and just accelerate.

00:27:47.000 That is how a Kamala presidency cashes out, irrespective of whatever happens to be circulating I would say kind of unimpressive and uninteresting mind.

00:28:04.000 We're getting called out on Facebook.

00:28:06.000 Rachel Price says, Caitlyn Jenner won't be charged for her role in a deadly four-car accident earlier this year in California.

00:28:14.000 Where was our outrage during this event?

00:28:19.000 It's so hard not to make a joke about woman drivers here, but... 1.00

00:28:25.000 I will refrain.

00:28:27.000 Yeah, no.

00:28:28.000 No comment.

00:28:29.000 Yeah, no.

00:28:29.000 I think if you check the record, Dr. Beattie and I were not fully on board with the Caitlyn generization of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

00:28:38.000 But Dr. Beattie, thank you so much for being with me.

00:28:40.000 I encourage everyone to follow these stories and much more at revolver.news.

00:28:44.000 And we hope you're subscribed to the Firebrand Podcast, that you're watching the Gates Network.

00:28:48.000 That way you can...

00:28:50.000 Catch up on all the discussions we're having on all the important issues of the day.

00:28:53.000 Thanks so much for joining me, Dr. Beattie.

00:28:55.000 Thank you so much.

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Episode 171 LIVE: Harris Is A Failure (feat. Dr. Darren Beattie) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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