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Trump Says Chicago Will Learn Why It's Called Department Of WAR, ICE & Guard Moving In ft. Christian Maxwell


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Candidate for Congress Candice Miller joins Jemele to discuss why President Trump should call in the National Guard to fight crime in Chicago. She also talks about why she thinks the National Guards should be deployed in the city and why it would be a good idea.

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00:00:00.000 Wasn't there like a Walgreens in Chicago where there's no, there's no items anymore.
00:00:03.400 It's just, it's a tablet.
00:00:05.340 Yeah.
00:00:05.980 Deodorants locked up, you know, like why is deodorant locked up?
00:00:11.000 You know, like, and, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used
00:00:15.280 to it where you're like, Hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait
00:00:18.020 for the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
00:00:20.680 Like, can you give, can you give me the amp, the one with the 24 hour strength?
00:00:23.640 Cause I'm really sweaty.
00:00:24.520 Like, that's not something you want to do with a person, you know?
00:00:26.960 Yeah.
00:00:27.620 But that's become the norm.
00:00:28.820 If you need, if you need formula, you, you got to wait for somebody to come and get
00:00:32.320 it for you.
00:00:33.160 Here's a story from the New York times.
00:00:35.760 Trump downplays post threatening Chicago saying he wants to clean up city.
00:00:41.320 The president had said on social media that Chicago was about to find out why it's called
00:00:44.560 the department of war, drawing a fierce rebuke from Democrats.
00:00:48.300 Now I'll tell you what I find funny in this.
00:00:50.140 All the liberals, not from Chicago telling me from the South side that I'm wrong, that
00:00:58.040 my opinions are wrong.
00:00:59.160 I'm like, but you don't live there.
00:01:00.340 You don't live there.
00:01:01.380 Okay.
00:01:01.800 Megan Kelly's got a video. 0.73
00:01:02.880 She did a show. 0.92
00:01:03.380 She said, Trump can't just, can't just send in the national guard to enforce the law.
00:01:05.980 That's clearly not legal.
00:01:07.480 Gavin Newsom says, aha, the base is splintering.
00:01:09.420 No, she's not wrong.
00:01:10.960 I'm not asking Trump go and send national guard to enforce the law.
00:01:13.580 I'm saying the presence is welcome.
00:01:15.860 They'll clean up trash.
00:01:17.220 They'll make everything nicer.
00:01:18.380 And it stops the crime.
00:01:19.540 In fact, in the black community, often we saw this from Gallup polling across the country.
00:01:24.400 They are asking for more police presence to help deal with the crime.
00:01:28.460 So I'm going to say this to all those liberals.
00:01:31.480 I say, I would love it in my neighborhood if we saw this.
00:01:36.380 And these people from New York, from the, from the Northern suburbs, from the wealthier 0.96
00:01:40.400 areas, they say, nah, it's ridiculous. 0.92
00:01:44.820 So here's what we're going to do. 0.93
00:01:46.660 We've got, we got a woman running for office. 1.00
00:01:50.280 We're going to bring her in and she's going to tell us about what's going on and what she
00:01:54.660 thinks and what she thinks needs to happen.
00:01:59.100 All right, let's get it set up, load it up.
00:02:03.180 Takes a quick second.
00:02:04.640 Christian, can you hear me?
00:02:05.980 Yes, I can hear you.
00:02:07.520 Thanks for joining me.
00:02:08.380 Do you want to just introduce yourself real quickly to everybody?
00:02:11.100 Yes, for sure.
00:02:11.920 So thank you again for having me on the show.
00:02:13.600 My name is Christian Maxwell and I'm currently a candidate for Congress in Illinois, a Republican
00:02:18.580 candidate.
00:02:19.220 So not the most popular thing to be in this state, but I'm Illinois born and raised.
00:02:26.980 And then I came to Chicago to pursue school and I ended up marrying my, finding my husband
00:02:31.280 here and marrying him.
00:02:32.400 And that's how I ended up being a resident of this amazing city.
00:02:35.000 So right now I'm just in the middle of the fight that a lot of people are in, which is
00:02:38.980 figuring out how to make Chicago a livable place once again.
00:02:41.900 So that's the thing I'm excited to talk about with you today.
00:02:45.080 Yeah, you're running in congressional district number one.
00:02:47.300 Was that, that was Bobby Rush's district?
00:02:49.240 Yes.
00:02:49.580 And then now most people don't even know, but it's not Bobby Rush anymore.
00:02:52.300 It's Jonathan Jackson.
00:02:53.600 So Jesse Jackson's son, but he flies so low under the radar with his effort that people
00:02:59.100 literally don't even know this man exists.
00:03:01.440 All right.
00:03:01.720 Very easy opening question.
00:03:04.020 Should Trump send in the National Guard?
00:03:05.640 Yes, I do believe Trump should send in the National Guard.
00:03:09.260 And there's a few key reasons for this.
00:03:11.400 So when we think about the National Guard, the entire purpose of the National Guard is
00:03:15.120 to do in-country work.
00:03:17.420 The whole concept of people kind of looking at it like a, like a SEAL team is being deployed
00:03:23.600 on U.S. soil to police and kind of like detain American citizens.
00:03:28.860 That's just not what the National Guard is.
00:03:30.900 And it's really not, it's really sad to see them looked at the way they're being looked
00:03:35.040 at right now, like an enemy force that's going to be against the American citizens.
00:03:39.160 Their entire purpose is to provide support to states while also being able to access federal
00:03:45.420 funding so states don't have to bear the burden of needing those extra resources.
00:03:49.760 So what we've seen a lot of other states right now is that a lot, people keep bringing up
00:03:53.100 like, oh, red states, he needs to send them to red states first.
00:03:56.060 Well, the issue is that a lot of red states are already having multiple federal task force
00:04:00.720 or federal integrated task force where they're working with the federal government and leveraging
00:04:05.020 those resources.
00:04:06.320 And they have an open door policy.
00:04:08.360 They're not hiding their ICE, their, you know, immigration data from the federal government.
00:04:13.400 They're not lying about who's being released from Cook County jail.
00:04:17.480 They're not doing that.
00:04:18.420 They're saying, hey, this person, we just released this person who's not actually a citizen.
00:04:22.500 They're yours now.
00:04:23.680 And then ICE is able to go do what they need to do.
00:04:26.220 But in Illinois, what we see is that our governor has us literally on lockdown pretty much.
00:04:30.720 It's like a wall around Illinois.
00:04:32.860 And he does not want any federal intervention unless it's a check.
00:04:36.940 So yes, we do need the National Guard.
00:04:39.360 Democrats have run Chicago for what, 100 years?
00:04:41.760 Oh gosh, they've had a stronghold forever.
00:04:43.740 In this district alone, the district I'm running for it, I would be breaking a century,
00:04:48.240 a century of democratic rule.
00:04:50.660 It would literally be crazy.
00:04:54.200 So I don't know if you're familiar, but I won't jump about it.
00:04:57.080 I grew up in Chicago.
00:04:57.640 I grew up on the South side in the Garfield Ridge.
00:04:59.380 I love that.
00:05:00.800 Yeah.
00:05:01.260 So I've told the stories over and over again about my neighborhood.
00:05:05.340 Yeah.
00:05:05.760 There's an area that used to be called the LeClaire.
00:05:07.920 It's still called the LeClaire courts, but they bulldozed it.
00:05:11.960 And I actually had a debate on Friday with a liberal who was from New York.
00:05:15.940 And the reason why I bring this up, after 100 years of Democrat supermajority,
00:05:22.640 congressionally, at the federal level, at the state level, the crime hasn't stopped.
00:05:27.640 No.
00:05:28.200 The gangs still control a lot of these areas.
00:05:31.000 The police have been unable to get a handle on this.
00:05:34.220 And where I grew up, I made this joke to one of the shows the day before.
00:05:41.260 I was like, oh, I mean, Chicago's not that bad.
00:05:44.440 I mean, I was only shot at like two or three times as a kid.
00:05:48.020 Uh, my friend only saw one corpse dragged through an alley.
00:05:51.940 I only got, we only got mugged by gangbangers, you know, 15 times.
00:05:55.680 Like the joke is that shouldn't be happening.
00:05:58.480 So the question I have for you, especially with you running for office is,
00:06:01.580 you know, when I asked like, should the National Guard come in?
00:06:05.060 It's clearly because the policies aren't working.
00:06:07.560 Why do you think after a century, they have not been able to get a handle on this crime?
00:06:12.560 One second.
00:06:13.420 And what should they be doing?
00:06:15.020 So what I think they should be doing.
00:06:16.800 So I think as far as the policies, I do believe that the one issue I see right now with a lot
00:06:21.860 of liberals is that they really do want to just do a one size fits all approach to this.
00:06:26.780 So they're like, you know what?
00:06:27.560 We just want to talk to these people.
00:06:29.260 We want to talk to them and we want to give them supplies.
00:06:31.800 And that the only reason they're doing criminal things is because they don't have enough stuff.
00:06:37.680 I don't know, that sounds bad.
00:06:39.820 But here's the thing.
00:06:40.860 There really is a group of people who it's not about how much stuff they have.
00:06:45.240 They are just inherently bad people.
00:06:47.860 And I know that that's something that people don't want to talk about for some reason.
00:06:51.020 But there really are people who are beyond the reach of a dialogue, whether it's a mental
00:06:55.040 health situation or just a, you know, just being so inundated with criminality that now
00:07:00.920 it really is just the only way you look at life.
00:07:03.060 There are some people who are just inherently bad, whether they're rapers, murderers, drug dealers,
00:07:08.480 you know, like whatever the situation is, there is no talking to them.
00:07:12.800 They're bad.
00:07:13.920 So no amount of affordable housing, no amount of food stamps, no truck parked in their neighborhood
00:07:19.920 with vegetables and cucumbers is going to change how they approach life.
00:07:24.840 Yeah, you can do that for kids.
00:07:26.260 Please do that for kids.
00:07:27.180 Please do that for women in these neighborhoods. 1.00
00:07:29.440 Please do that for people who want to change.
00:07:31.360 But for the people who are not interested in changing, no, we don't want to give them more
00:07:36.120 resources.
00:07:36.520 When you, here's what it looks like though, when you do open up resources to people who
00:07:40.140 just have a criminal nature, what they end up doing is you'll open up more senior living 1.00
00:07:45.280 facilities and then you will see their grandsons, these older women, their grandsons will infiltrate 0.97
00:07:49.860 the senior living facility and be in their apartment unit and they can't even get them out. 0.99
00:07:56.020 Wow.
00:07:56.700 You know, like there's, there's a lot of situations like that, or women will have section eight 1.00
00:08:00.940 and then they'll have a boyfriend who's living there, who's dealing drugs out of a section
00:08:05.520 eight unit.
00:08:06.800 And it's like, yeah, this is the housing that she should have because she has children, 0.95
00:08:10.200 but her boyfriend is literally not doing a single thing to provide for that household
00:08:14.600 and is not incentivized to do so because his biggest cost is already covered.
00:08:19.700 And it's so, Nate, you have food stamps too.
00:08:22.180 What are you working for?
00:08:23.020 It's, it's so, oh yeah.
00:08:24.400 I mean, that's another huge issue in the city, but it's so entrenched.
00:08:27.640 And so, you know, for me, when I, I was talking to my, my friends, uh, from the South, I mean,
00:08:34.020 Southwest, I don't want to act like it's, you know, 45th or something, but we're, we're,
00:08:37.420 we're by Midway airport, Leclerc courts area.
00:08:39.780 And I said, which would you prefer the muggings at our local park, uh, or a handful of national 1.00
00:08:46.480 guard picking up trash and walking around the park?
00:08:49.340 Everybody laughs.
00:08:49.980 Cause they're like, no one fears national guard.
00:08:52.760 They're not going to arrest you in DC.
00:08:55.000 They're cleaning up garbage, but that presence.
00:08:56.860 So you talk about, you know, putting a vegetable cart in this neighbor, it's not going to stop
00:09:00.900 crime.
00:09:01.360 It's certainly not, but it, there is a pressure created by having national guard present,
00:09:06.840 not enforcing, or just being there.
00:09:08.820 Yes.
00:09:09.300 And it's, and it's fascinating that it is the well-to-do liberals in the wealthier neighborhoods
00:09:13.360 telling me, my friends and my family, the protection we're asking for is illegal,
00:09:18.800 illegitimate.
00:09:19.220 We don't deserve it.
00:09:20.420 Yes.
00:09:21.320 Yeah.
00:09:21.560 And I think that for them, um, cause I, I'm, we're, me and my husband are foodies.
00:09:25.540 So we drive all over the city.
00:09:26.760 Like we will drive 30 minutes for donuts.
00:09:28.800 Like that's how intense, how heavy we are into food.
00:09:32.280 So I drive to all, uh, all neighborhoods.
00:09:34.140 Like I'll go anywhere, you know, for cool food.
00:09:36.420 And what I ended up seeing a lot on these Saturday mornings is literally what I described
00:09:39.800 on that video.
00:09:40.760 And that morning I made the video.
00:09:42.800 I was literally watching people do exactly what I described.
00:09:46.220 And when I came back to my area, I don't see people doing what I described.
00:09:50.840 They're not outside of their home as much as people in these other neighborhoods.
00:09:55.420 I mean, kids literally in, you know, some of these really nicer areas, their kids are
00:09:58.680 still in their PJs.
00:09:59.740 Like you literally got up and just, you just hit the door immediately to go live your life
00:10:04.360 in your community.
00:10:04.960 You know why you're also doing that?
00:10:06.660 Because you have more businesses than we have.
00:10:09.280 Over here on the South side, we don't have as many businesses as they have.
00:10:13.760 Most of the South side is underdeveloped.
00:10:16.020 You don't have as many restaurants to choose from.
00:10:17.740 You don't have as many, I mean, we have in my community, it's a lot of people who live
00:10:21.520 here in the Hyde Park, Woodline area.
00:10:23.220 We have a micro target.
00:10:24.960 We don't even have a full target.
00:10:27.040 I went in there to buy an iPad and they had to go get it from like the, the dungeon of the
00:10:31.700 back of the store because it's so locked down.
00:10:34.960 Yeah.
00:10:35.080 Well now, now it's like, what was it?
00:10:36.800 Wasn't there like a Walgreens in Chicago where there's no, there's no items anymore.
00:10:40.360 It's just, it's a tablet.
00:10:42.280 Yeah.
00:10:42.940 Deodorants locked up, you know, like why is deodorant locked up?
00:10:48.040 You know, like, and, and, you know, it really, it's one of those things where you get used
00:10:52.180 to it where you're like, Hey, let me push the button to order my deodorant and wait for
00:10:55.060 the person to come over and give me my deodorant.
00:10:57.580 Like, can you give, can you give me the, the one with the 24 hour strength?
00:11:00.540 Cause I'm really sweaty.
00:11:01.420 Like that's not something you want to do with a person, you know?
00:11:03.740 Um, but that's become the norm.
00:11:05.720 If you need, if you need formula, you, you got to wait for somebody to come and get it
00:11:09.320 for you.
00:11:09.800 And I think that a lot of people don't realize that's how a lot of the city is living.
00:11:13.840 They're living like they are criminals and they're not the criminals.
00:11:16.740 So when I advocate for something like the national guard, here's also why I think a lot of Chicagoans
00:11:22.000 don't realize that CPD is currently down about 5,000 officers, bare minimum, they're down
00:11:29.000 3,000.
00:11:30.060 So if you have the national guard here as a support and as a deterrent, that frees up
00:11:34.460 more of the officers that we barely have.
00:11:36.200 I think we only have about 11, maybe like 11,000 or 13,000.
00:11:39.100 It frees up some of those officers who may be stationed downtown to kind of go into some
00:11:44.060 different districts because a lot of these districts are not covered the way that people
00:11:47.840 would think that they are covered.
00:11:49.340 I actually know for a fact that there have been multiple times where, uh, the mayor has
00:11:54.720 decided to pull South side officers to go downtown, to stand on corners, to keep downtown
00:11:59.860 safe.
00:12:00.660 Wow. 0.94
00:12:01.200 So while a lot of black people are saying, you know, they're just going to be downtown. 0.97
00:12:04.320 Well, great. 0.95
00:12:05.580 Let somebody else think about downtown so we can be thought of.
00:12:08.800 Do you find-
00:12:09.300 Because when I say that the South side is not a process, uh, we're not a priority.
00:12:13.060 Do you find that the black community in Chicago, these neighborhoods would prefer a greater 0.97
00:12:17.340 police presence?
00:12:19.360 I think that's why a lot of people are really upset.
00:12:21.460 The comment I keep seeing is they're not going to come to the South side.
00:12:24.540 And initially I was like, guys, why are you so hung up on that?
00:12:27.140 But then I really thought about it and I'm like, this is almost like a reverse cry for
00:12:30.480 help.
00:12:31.220 People are basically saying like, they're just going to not think about us again.
00:12:35.040 That's what I think that people are saying when they keep commenting over and over that
00:12:39.780 the National Guard isn't going to come to the South side.
00:12:42.520 It's because people are used to calling 9-1-1 and nobody comes.
00:12:46.180 And even if they do come, the response time for CPD is pretty low.
00:12:49.800 Again, it's not their fault.
00:12:50.960 I don't blame the officers.
00:12:52.360 I blame the mayor for not doing-
00:12:54.680 One, his promise when he ran was that he was going to hire 200 more detectives.
00:12:58.200 For one, you can hire more detectives to close cases, but also hire the additional officers
00:13:03.500 that we need for the city.
00:13:04.920 He hasn't hired the 200 new detectives.
00:13:07.240 He hasn't hit that goal.
00:13:09.080 And if anything, I think CPD has gotten smaller under his leadership.
00:13:12.100 I wonder if that's like, I wonder if that's like a common Chicago thing that you call 9-1-1,
00:13:15.600 nobody shows up.
00:13:17.080 Yeah, I watched a burglary next door.
00:13:19.320 So I actually live in a really interesting area.
00:13:20.940 It's like being, I don't want to call it gentrified, but they're knocking down old stuff
00:13:24.460 and putting up million-dollar homes.
00:13:26.060 And I literally watched the million-dollar home next door to me be burglarized.
00:13:29.680 Somebody came up on a scooter and started bashing this glass door, patio door, on a million-dollar
00:13:36.440 home.
00:13:37.100 And before the million-dollar home was even built, three guys came up with chainsaws and took
00:13:42.080 their time and robbed the construction containers.
00:13:44.440 I called CPD and nobody ever came.
00:13:46.960 Yeah.
00:13:47.540 And there's always some excuse of priority or something like that.
00:13:51.760 But what are, I left when I was 23, so I come back periodically for the holidays.
00:13:58.000 What's it like with the gun laws now?
00:13:59.700 I mean, can you defend yourself?
00:14:02.360 So I think that if you are willing to study the laws pretty much very often, you need to
00:14:08.100 know what you can and cannot do here because there's a lot of rules on law-abiding citizens.
00:14:12.760 There's more rules for us than obviously it is for criminals.
00:14:16.160 So if you don't understand what is considered your castle, like you can't just, your car
00:14:21.020 is not an extension of your castle here in Chicago.
00:14:23.620 So if your car is being burglarized, like there's not much you can do.
00:14:28.080 You have to be in, and you should always have to be in imminent harm in order to use a weapon.
00:14:33.200 I do, I definitely feel that.
00:14:35.300 But the way that you can really get caught up and end up in jail as a law-abiding citizen,
00:14:39.740 if you don't know all of the rules and regulations for how to use your weapon here, you can get
00:14:45.200 in a lot of trouble.
00:14:45.960 And to be honest, they will probably throw the book at you even more than they would
00:14:48.640 actual criminal.
00:14:49.340 So if you, I would say anybody in Illinois, you should have your FOID, even though it's
00:14:54.040 really ridiculous that you have to have one, but you should have your FOID and then you
00:14:57.720 need to go and get your concealed carry because it's your job to self-rescue.
00:15:01.660 In a state like Illinois, they cannot rescue you.
00:15:04.720 You have to self-rescue.
00:15:06.380 It takes an officer, even in a good area, it takes officers to like 15 minutes to get to
00:15:10.720 you in a good area.
00:15:12.200 What are you going to do for 15 minutes?
00:15:13.820 If you don't have a weapon and you don't know how to use it, you're going to die. 1.00
00:15:18.760 So, or be raped or whatever. 0.95
00:15:21.080 For women who, I see a lot of women walking around, I'm like, I really hope that you have 1.00
00:15:24.300 something in that little pouch besides lip gloss because, you know, it's a lot more going
00:15:28.740 on here than Chicago's going to tell you because they're not transparent about how much crime
00:15:32.540 is happening in this city because they want you to feel safe.
00:15:36.060 It's not safe.
00:15:37.100 Yep.
00:15:37.520 And I think that DC was accused of doing this too, flubbing the numbers to make it seem like
00:15:41.800 everything's safe.
00:15:42.200 We want to get those tourists in here.
00:15:43.820 And then, uh, Chicago's pretty brutal.
00:15:46.680 It's pretty, it's really brutal.
00:15:48.640 People don't realize I brought, I did a video on TikTok and I was talking about, I'm like,
00:15:52.800 I'm like, guys, I don't know if you know, but there's a really extensive cartel presence
00:15:56.740 in, in Illinois.
00:15:57.700 And some people were like, oh man, don't talk about it.
00:15:59.800 Don't talk about it.
00:16:00.380 And I'm like, but no, let's talk about it.
00:16:02.080 Because when you have a cartel presence, that means you have a trafficking presence.
00:16:05.760 And if you're, you know, a young woman, like you're, you're a commodity, you know, like 1.00
00:16:11.720 you have to be aware of your surroundings in a way that's a lot higher here.
00:16:15.640 And I think that a lot of people just think of gang violence and it's like, oh, it's just 0.81
00:16:19.140 some black guys on the South side.
00:16:20.360 Like, no, there's a lot of different types of crime in Chicago.
00:16:24.200 This is why you see, you know, there was just recently, um, it was a Chinese person who was,
00:16:28.800 I think they were, uh, they, the DA, um, got them because they were trying to change over
00:16:36.100 $65 million from a transaction for fentanyl.
00:16:39.440 And then there was just recently a major cartel leader from the Sinaloa cartel, I believe,
00:16:45.000 arrested, apprehended here or charged here.
00:16:47.420 I'm like, that's like, that's like Mexico.
00:16:50.980 I'm like, this is not Chicago.
00:16:52.900 It's so beautiful.
00:16:53.800 It's so beautiful, but do not let that fool you. 0.93
00:16:56.600 There is a real criminal element here that goes so much deeper than just black guys on 1.00
00:17:01.700 the South side where people are like, they shouldn't be over policed.
00:17:03.900 I could care less about the crime that people think this is about.
00:17:07.980 There is something that the government knows that we're not a hundred percent aware of that
00:17:11.800 I, I for sure want them to come and handle and handle that.
00:17:16.400 What I just never understood.
00:17:17.540 And it's one of the reasons why I decided to leave the city is how after a hundred years,
00:17:21.700 they've not solved anything.
00:17:23.900 I mean, we'll go back a hundred years.
00:17:25.240 We're talking about Al Capone and we, we, you, you still have violent crime and, and,
00:17:30.880 and, and the gangs have gotten worse and people, but why do keep, why do people keep voting for
00:17:35.980 the same thing and for the same people?
00:17:37.520 It's just not getting solved.
00:17:38.740 So that's something that I've been looking into as well.
00:17:41.860 There are less and less people voting in these elections.
00:17:44.300 Even when, even though there is still a democratic stronghold, they have just broken the wheel
00:17:48.920 of so many conservative or even moderate Democrat voters to the point where they just don't
00:17:53.220 show up.
00:17:53.920 If you even look at for some of the surrounding suburbs where there's mayoral elections, you
00:17:58.080 will have a mayor win with like 1400 votes.
00:18:00.420 That's like an event, you know, that's not like a town's worth of people.
00:18:04.600 Um, so, and even with the mayor, mayor Johnson, I mean, he didn't get that many votes.
00:18:08.660 It was like less than like 300,000.
00:18:10.460 And I think it was honestly in the hundreds of thousands, Chicago is a really big city.
00:18:14.860 So it's like, there wasn't some overwhelming majority of people who said that Brandon Johnson
00:18:18.700 was going to be a great mayor.
00:18:20.080 It was a small, it was a small group of people who cared enough to go out and vote.
00:18:24.120 And they didn't come back for the runoff, which is why Paul Vallis ended up losing.
00:18:29.300 Paul Vallis would have been the mayor.
00:18:30.660 Now, honestly, I know quite a few black people who voted for Paul Vallis and were, and for
00:18:34.400 sure wanted him over Brandon Johnson because nobody in their right mind wanted Brandon Johnson.
00:18:39.280 If you ask any black person who's like, I don't want to call him boomer age, but even
00:18:43.760 like my age and up, they know for a fact that his whole, the youth just needs to kumbaya
00:18:48.600 with me.
00:18:49.420 And they're going to come over to the law abiding side.
00:18:51.900 Everybody knows that's not a thing.
00:18:53.320 It's not a thing.
00:18:54.120 Which is why you see youth taking over downtown now.
00:18:57.340 And you see, if you check a lot of the schools around here, they literally have 50% absentee
00:19:02.720 rates.
00:19:03.400 A lot of CPS schools can't even get kids to come to school.
00:19:06.360 And he's a CPS product.
00:19:07.760 He's actually a CPS teacher.
00:19:09.320 And the CTU president is literally like his puppeteer.
00:19:13.440 She has his little puppet strings. 0.96
00:19:15.460 He's not, he's not, none of the stuff that Brandon Johnson is doing is because he's sitting
00:19:19.060 there plotting on Chicago.
00:19:20.820 He is a puppet of the highest order.
00:19:23.140 And Stacey Davis Gates, whatever her name is, she honestly needs to go on like a watch 0.85
00:19:28.880 list.
00:19:29.080 Like that lady is behind so much of the destruction of our children in the city. 0.99
00:19:34.320 I honestly would love to see CTU get dismantled.
00:19:38.140 I would love to see them be dismantled.
00:19:39.920 Because they're a big reason why the city is dysfunctional.
00:19:42.340 I was looking up Congressional District 1 in Illinois.
00:19:45.700 You actually have a decently active congressional district.
00:19:48.580 Jonathan Jackson won with 208,000 votes to Marcus Lewis's 108,000.
00:19:54.140 Yes.
00:19:54.480 That's like near 50% turnout, like 40 some odd percent.
00:19:58.040 I pulled up AOCs because she's so famous.
00:20:00.080 It's a great example.
00:20:01.320 She won with 132,000 to 59,000.
00:20:05.220 Yeah.
00:20:05.660 Substantially less turnout in her district.
00:20:08.260 It's fascinating to see that in CD1, the Republican turnout rivals AOC in her own district.
00:20:16.220 Yes.
00:20:16.580 Do you think you're going to be able to, obviously you're going to say yes, but you're going to
00:20:19.300 be able to rally the people of your district and vote for some change?
00:20:23.100 So when I look at this whole fight, for one thing, I'm taking it one day at a time.
00:20:27.140 And I don't do a lot of boasting at all in this because I've never run for politics or
00:20:31.160 done anything in politics.
00:20:32.140 But what I'm looking at is that people have never been more fed up than they are right now.
00:20:37.620 And with Trump in office, they have just a thread of hope.
00:20:41.440 And I honestly do believe that if there was ever a time to do it, it's now.
00:20:47.580 So Jonathan Jackson, most, if you go up to, I'm actually going to probably do it pretty
00:20:51.920 soon.
00:20:52.180 I'm going to just walk around the high park area and I'm going to ask random black people.
00:20:55.780 Do you know who Jonathan Jackson is?
00:20:57.480 They don't know him.
00:20:58.880 They don't know him. 0.65
00:21:00.180 He's slapping up billboards over literally destroyed areas all throughout the black communities, 0.98
00:21:06.040 just slapping his face up there, talking about people over politics while black businesses 0.99
00:21:10.360 close all over the district. 1.00
00:21:13.060 Black women are unemployed. 1.00
00:21:14.820 It's like the people that he talks about all the time, they're not doing better with him 0.98
00:21:19.220 as a representative.
00:21:20.300 I looked at all of the legislation that he's done as a congressman.
00:21:26.120 None of it is about Illinois.
00:21:27.840 And to be honest, none of it is about black people.
00:21:30.340 So the very people who elect him, I really wonder if they're checking his work because
00:21:34.640 he's on Capitol Hill with, I mean, when you pay for a representative, Illinois is investing
00:21:41.200 about three to $4 million a year into Jonathan Jackson and his suite of team members who
00:21:46.720 aren't doing anything.
00:21:48.040 He's produced less than, I think, 15 pieces of legislation.
00:21:51.220 He's been a representative since 2023.
00:21:53.960 How do you do less than 15 pieces of legislation in several years in a district that has this
00:22:01.280 much need?
00:22:02.500 And you don't really hear a lot about him at the national level.
00:22:04.780 No, he doesn't, because he really is a wallflower.
00:22:08.680 A lot of people usually call him a wallflower.
00:22:10.960 He's the, I think the only reason to be honest that he ended up running is because his brother
00:22:14.380 got locked up.
00:22:15.340 So his brother, Jesse Jackson Jr., who was probably the original kid who was supposed
00:22:20.160 to, you know, be his daddy, like, you know, main kiddo.
00:22:23.380 But he embezzled about $800,000 of his own campaign funds.
00:22:27.440 So he had to get locked up for a little bit.
00:22:29.200 He just got back out and put his little intellectual glasses back on and he thinks he's going to run
00:22:33.760 in District 2.
00:22:35.500 That should not be a thing.
00:22:37.000 You shouldn't get fresh out of prison and then go try to run for a representative again
00:22:40.980 and think that you have a shot.
00:22:42.520 But in Illinois, these men, the true oligarchy, which is Jesse Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr.
00:22:49.280 and Jonathan Jackson, that's an actual oligarchy because they love that phrase.
00:22:53.060 They think that they own Illinois and that this is their way to just keep themselves top
00:22:57.540 of mind a little bit, keep a decent little salary, you know, a decent salary to put on the
00:23:01.740 books and to just stay relevant.
00:23:03.380 But Illinois is tired of being a toy.
00:23:06.040 Yeah.
00:23:06.260 How many of the, in the past 20 years, how many politicians in Illinois went to prison?
00:23:10.860 I mean, oh man, it's actually sad because I can't count at this point.
00:23:16.380 That's a normal thing is for, you know, Illinois politicians to end up going to not just like,
00:23:22.680 they don't even just get a civil suit.
00:23:24.240 I mean, they really go to prison to do hard time.
00:23:28.120 Like, that's how I'm like, they don't, they don't just do a little bit of crime or kind
00:23:32.600 of just overstep a little bit.
00:23:34.240 No, they just like, they're like, no, I'm going for it.
00:23:36.920 I'm going to embezzle a million dollars almost and, you know, have to do multiple years.
00:23:40.940 And I just can't understand how that's normal.
00:23:44.360 But also that's why I know that I want the National Guard to come and I want Trump to
00:23:48.400 have his eye on Illinois because I know why they don't want his eye on Illinois because
00:23:53.220 of the level of corruption.
00:23:55.140 When Pritzker, during the pandemic, Pritzker kept Illinois in disaster mode longer than
00:24:00.080 almost any other state, I think in the U.S.
00:24:03.100 He kept it in disaster mode.
00:24:04.880 Do you know why?
00:24:06.540 Because it paid the bills for RTA.
00:24:09.220 RTA is currently 700 billion, I think $700 million underwater because COVID funded ended.
00:24:16.280 CPS, our public school system, 100% supported by COVID funding.
00:24:20.840 They're like, I think a billion dollars underwater now.
00:24:24.280 There are so many different industries across Illinois that he was able to pay the bills for
00:24:28.860 with COVID funding.
00:24:30.060 So he was content to keep Illinoisans locked in their houses and tell them it was a disaster
00:24:34.480 for as long as possible.
00:24:36.240 It also created fake jobs.
00:24:38.580 So now when you see people saying that there's less jobs being created, well, it's because
00:24:43.660 there's not a bunch of fake COVID jobs being created.
00:24:46.200 People going and shoving swabs up your nose at Walgreens.
00:24:48.920 That's a fake job.
00:24:51.480 You know, healthcare, all this fake healthcare hiring that Illinois did, the only new innovation
00:24:56.040 that you see in Illinois right now, if you come, you will notice that the only new businesses
00:25:00.320 are dispensaries, autism clinics, and kidney dialysis businesses.
00:25:06.940 Somebody tell me I'm wrong.
00:25:09.240 I drive over the South Side and the only thing I see is new dialysis clinics because people's 1.00
00:25:13.600 kidneys are failing here.
00:25:14.920 That's something that needs to be looked into.
00:25:16.460 There's a bunch of new autism clinics and ABA clinics, and then there's dispensaries.
00:25:20.520 And the dispensary money, nobody knows where that's going because it's going back to rehabs,
00:25:25.560 apparently, and then it's discretionary funding for Illinois to decide how they spend.
00:25:30.180 So all the taxes from dispensaries is not actually going to Illinois at all.
00:25:33.540 I saw this.
00:25:34.080 I can't remember what show I was watching recently, but someone mentioned one of the characters
00:25:37.880 was like, yeah, I was thinking going to Chicago, but you know, I'm not sure it's the
00:25:41.160 right place for me too, windy.
00:25:42.120 And I love that there are, it's kind of shocking when I find out there are people who genuinely
00:25:48.120 believe the Windy City is called windy because of actual wind, when it's actually about how
00:25:53.460 all the politicians are corrupt and blowing hot air.
00:25:56.600 And it's like, for a hundred years, we've lived that way. 0.88
00:25:59.640 Yeah.
00:26:00.020 And it's an expectation.
00:26:01.180 I know a lot of people, they'll keep, I see people like, man, I really hope you don't
00:26:04.560 change once you get in.
00:26:06.260 And the thing I think that's different about me is that I don't have anybody in my ear.
00:26:10.220 I don't have some like shady characters, like, you know, over my shoulder telling me what
00:26:15.020 to do.
00:26:15.400 Like, I really am basically a rogue agent.
00:26:17.600 And even though I'm a Republican and I'm a conservative, I don't think the Republican
00:26:21.900 party even knows what to do with me in the state because I'm not a normal candidate.
00:26:26.660 I haven't done, I'm not doing anything the way that they usually do it.
00:26:30.480 This is the GOP's problem, or at least one of their problems.
00:26:34.420 They don't want to invest in these districts, like congressional district number one.
00:26:40.220 Their attitude is it's a foregone conclusion, but that means every two years, it gets more
00:26:45.400 and more democratic controlled.
00:26:47.680 You, you, you, you have to go after these districts that are democratic, democratic party
00:26:52.360 entrenched.
00:26:53.000 That'll actually weaken all the other areas and improve your, your standing in this, in
00:26:56.400 the swing districts.
00:26:57.540 Imagine if you destroy a democratic stronghold, it, you're, everything else is falling.
00:27:03.020 I've literally had multiple people who were in the GOP in Illinois tell me, oh, your district
00:27:07.280 isn't one of the ones like that's a focus for us because you know, it's a, a dim plus
00:27:11.820 24 or whatever it is.
00:27:13.400 And I'm like, I don't care what, I don't care what the data says you've, for one, you've
00:27:18.240 never had a candidate like me.
00:27:20.780 And for me to be in this area, this is the best shot you will ever have.
00:27:25.080 So to have multiple GOP people still tell me, oh, you know, I don't really know if, you
00:27:29.780 know, we're going to spend there, but we're going to spend in some random area in Illinois
00:27:33.240 because that's an easier win.
00:27:35.760 The GOP needs to buck up.
00:27:37.560 Yep.
00:27:37.860 They need to buck up.
00:27:38.780 And the actual person who's over the GOP in Illinois, they need to have somebody who has
00:27:42.400 more of a mind for strategy because I'm pretty fed up to be honest, as a person who's a,
00:27:46.280 I still consider myself, I'm just a citizen, a person who decided to go for it.
00:27:49.920 That's, it's nothing different about me.
00:27:51.760 I'm a regular, I'm a mom of four.
00:27:53.220 I just did homeschool this morning before this interview, I'm a regular woman, made
00:27:57.000 my husband breakfast this morning because it's this off day, like I'm normal.
00:28:01.120 But when I look at this from a business perspective, because I'm a business person as well, there's
00:28:05.820 a lack of strategy.
00:28:06.720 Why is the Republican Party, even at the national level, not investing in more digital media?
00:28:13.420 Why are they not going out and making sure that they have an infrastructure to tell the
00:28:17.220 stories they need to have?
00:28:18.420 We're still missing the plot when it comes to really selling what it means to be a
00:28:23.060 Republican and to be conservative and to care about the country and be a patriot.
00:28:27.880 Being a Republican is, I mean, being a conservative and loving America is awesome.
00:28:32.340 The military is awesome.
00:28:33.900 That's why we don't have enough young men going into the military now where people are
00:28:36.640 terrified of the National Guard because people know nothing about the military.
00:28:40.840 Hexeth is turning it around though. 0.59
00:28:42.440 Hexeth is doing a great job.
00:28:43.860 I love what he's doing.
00:28:45.100 Recruitment is up.
00:28:45.860 Yeah.
00:28:46.600 What the GOP needs to understand, you look at the Democrats and they keep producing these
00:28:51.160 squad member social media personality influencer types.
00:28:54.860 It works for them.
00:28:55.860 Not that they're doing all too well right now, to be completely honest.
00:28:59.060 But when you think about who are the most prominent Republicans, it's a bunch of stodgy
00:29:05.320 suit wearing, you know, they're nerds.
00:29:08.440 They're not approachable by the average person.
00:29:12.780 There's something good to the professional in the quorum and that I can respect, but you
00:29:16.840 need to get personal and personable.
00:29:19.900 And I'll say this, in your district, especially for a place like Chicago, the GOP should be
00:29:27.180 investing to erode and chip away at these strongholds.
00:29:31.540 Otherwise, you're just crossing your fingers that you can try and win in a swing district.
00:29:35.860 But then all you're really doing is having a battle over gerrymandering instead of actually
00:29:39.940 trying to win the argument.
00:29:41.860 But we are close to wrapping up.
00:29:44.860 So if you have any final thoughts or you want to let people know where they can find you?
00:29:48.440 Yeah.
00:29:48.840 So I want people to definitely visit my website, christianmaxwellforcongress.com.
00:29:52.860 I can't do this for Illinois without you.
00:29:55.640 Even if you're not an Illinoisan and you're an American citizen, a victory in Illinois is 0.88
00:30:00.620 a victory for the U.S.
00:30:01.800 And I mean that.
00:30:03.020 Illinois is a stronghold for some of the most corrupt dysfunction that plagues our country
00:30:07.860 in general.
00:30:08.700 And a lot of the things that they try here and test here spreads to other areas.
00:30:12.600 Pritzker loves the work that he's doing.
00:30:14.600 And he's going and tampering in other people's elections, going into places like I think he
00:30:18.960 went into Wisconsin and all of those areas.
00:30:21.360 Don't let people like him win here because he will spread his dysfunction via his not-for-profit
00:30:26.640 all throughout the country.
00:30:27.780 And he's already doing it.
00:30:29.100 So if you're a person who wants to be a part of creating the best future or the best chance
00:30:33.340 we have for a better future in America, invest in my election, spread the message, look for
00:30:38.280 more people you can help in Illinois because a victory here is a victory for all of us.
00:30:42.180 And we truly do need help because Illinois is basically North Korea at this point.
00:30:46.320 And we just need, we need help.
00:30:49.040 We need help.
00:30:50.120 So send help.
00:30:51.400 Trump, I hope you see this.
00:30:53.040 Hey, send help. 0.64
00:30:55.220 Send help.
00:30:55.840 Did you mention you have a website or a social media handle?
00:30:58.880 Yeah, christianmaxwellforcongress.com.
00:31:00.540 And then on TikTok, I started off this entire journey as the Mod Pun, which stands for the
00:31:05.000 Modern Pundit.
00:31:06.000 But that's just the M-O-D-P-U-N, the Mod Pun. 0.98
00:31:09.520 And you can find me on X and on TikTok as the Mod Pun.
00:31:13.120 And on Instagram is christianmaxwellforcongress.
00:31:15.420 So definitely join me on all those platforms.
00:31:17.560 And if you want to go to the website first, you can find everything on the website.
00:31:20.860 But I definitely appreciate you so much, Tim, for this.
00:31:23.480 This was amazing.
00:31:24.400 Thanks for joining.
00:31:25.020 And yeah, come, come back and visit, you know, come and visit.
00:31:30.160 I was just there for the 4th of July and I'm upset with how the 4th of July celebration
00:31:34.360 is no longer Chicago.
00:31:35.460 There's a lot to talk about with Chicago, but I wish you the best of luck.
00:31:39.280 Really do appreciate you joining.
00:31:40.440 And we'll definitely, we'll reach out to you and we'll keep track of your campaign and
00:31:43.460 see where you're going.
00:31:44.360 And then we'll see you next time.
00:31:46.520 Okay.
00:31:46.820 Thank you so much, Tim.
00:31:47.740 Take care.
00:31:48.580 Bye-bye.
00:31:49.020 It is always great to talk to someone from Chicago.
00:31:55.820 I was on the team.
00:31:56.660 I was like, let's just talk about Chicago.
00:31:59.360 Talk about Portillo's hot dogs.
00:32:01.660 Maxwell Street, Polish.
00:32:03.040 Oh boy.
00:32:03.420 And our agreement in that these neighborhoods are in trouble and need help.
00:32:08.400 And we can, you can be from Chicago and be like, yes, Trump, please come and help us.
00:32:13.620 I'll say one more time before we're at, but we're going to send you on your way to go
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00:32:32.220 We're back, of course, tonight at 8 p.m. for TimCast IRL.
00:32:35.820 And I'll just say it like this, man.
00:32:37.760 These Democrats have had a hundred years.
00:32:40.400 She's even said if she wins, it's breaking a century of Democrat control.
00:32:47.180 Well, I don't know, man.
00:32:48.560 Maybe the Republicans are wrong.
00:32:50.200 But how about at this point you try something different?
00:32:54.280 Because these problems have persisted.
00:32:56.040 For a hundred years.
00:32:59.100 So, with that being said, again, smash that like button.
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