Mid-Day Update： August 22, 2025
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Summary
Latest episode of the Great America Show: A Mid-Day Update for August 22, 2019. President Trump rides his bike around the streets of Washington, D.C. to thank the people who are defending the streets. Federal prosecutors have evidence from FBI brass that James Comey, former FBI Director, authorized classified leaks but declined to bring charges. Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration may proceed with termination of $800 million in NIH grants. President Trump's Alligator Alcatraz may be short lived.
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Friday,
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August 22nd. President Trump was on patrol last night with the U.S. Park Police at one of their
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facilities, one of the highest crime areas in Washington, D.C., after riding around the streets
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amid his federal takeover of the city. President Trump had some choice words to say for those
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folks who are defending the streets of Washington, D.C. Take a listen.
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The crime numbers are way down. I'm looking at you saw some of the stats. I just read them out
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to me inside the numbers that we haven't seen here ever, actually ever. And I think it's probably
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right now. It's to me, I feel very safe now and I'm hearing people are very safe. But I know
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within two weeks, it's going to be, Pam, it's going to be at a level that's even far superior.
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So I just came. I just wanted to thank you all. You're doing incredible. You're incredible people.
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You make the country run. Frankly, you make the whole place run. We're going to have the best
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capital ever. We're going to have the it's going to look better than it ever did.
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President Trump saying his phones are ringing off the hook with great, great feedback for his
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takeover of Washington, D.C. But I've never received so many phone calls thanking me for what
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we've done in Washington, D.C., from people that haven't gone to a restaurant in literally in four
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years. And they said, you know, what you've done is it's unprecedented because what they they they
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said it was just unsafe. We couldn't do it. We'd go out and you'd see the stories, you'd read the
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stories, you see all of the things that are happening. And they said, we just we couldn't we
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couldn't stand it. So now I take my wife and my kids to dinner. One of them said he's gone out
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four nights in a row and he hadn't gone out for four years. So it's a it's a great tribute to you.
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And when I look at you people, I understand why, because there's no games, right? We're not playing
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games. We're going to make it safe. And the Supreme Court this week with a big five for ruling the
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Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration may proceed with the termination of just about
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eight hundred million dollars in DEI linked NIH grants. Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the
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liberal justices and Amy Coney Barrett actually voting with the conservatives for once. Last month,
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the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block a court order from Boston-based Judge
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William Young, a Reagan appointee. Judge Young previously ordered that the NIH be immediately
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restored to more than 800 grants halted by the Trump administration. DOJ Solicitor General John
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Sauer cited a recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed the Department of Education to block millions
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of dollars in grants that funded DEI policies. The liberals have lost once again. Federal prosecutors
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have secured evidence from FBI brass that James Comey, former FBI director, authorized classified leaks
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but declined to bring charges. These newly declassified memos reveal that federal prosecutors secured this
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evidence from top FBI brass indicating that former FBI director James Comey authorized classified leaks
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shortly before the 2016 election, but they declined to bring the charges. According to the memos obtained by
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Just the News, an investigation by U.S. Postal Inspector Service agents revealed that former FBI General Counsel
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James Baker and Comey's Chief of Staff James Rebicki were involved in leaking classified information to the New York
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Times in October of 2016. The specific classified information was not identified. No surprise, as James Comey,
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the biggest scum to ever serve that office is still walking free. And President Trump's Alligator Alcatraz
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may be short-lived. On Thursday evening, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an Obama appointee of course,
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barred the Trump administration from bringing new illegal alien detainees to Alligator Alcatraz.
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She also ordered that the facility be dismantled within 60 days. Alligator Alcatraz's detention center for
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illegal aliens, many of whom are rapists, murderers, and designated foreign terrorists.
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The facility, which opened last month at the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis,
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is surrounded by Florida's natural defenses including alligators, pythons, and dense swampland
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in the Florida Evergrades. Earlier this month, Judge Williams cited environmental violations for her
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two-week pause on future construction. The Marxist Dems are out to hurt America, and that's exactly what
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they're trying to do. Speaking of another judge, D.C. Superior Court Judge Karen Briggs, a Biden
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appointee, released two of the teens who attacked former Doge member Edward Corsantine, also known as
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Big Balls. Earlier this month, 19-year-old Edward Corsantine was severely beaten in D.C. after he jumped
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into action to save his significant other's lives. Trump posted a photo of this man after he was beaten
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bloody by the mob of teens. The president has since, of course, federalized D.C. to crack down on crime
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as the Marxist Dems allowed these people to continue to roam the streets. Folks, please be sure to join
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us tonight and each and every night for The Great America Show, 6 p.m. Eastern time. Rumble, YouTube,
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Twitter, wherever you join us. We'll see you there, 6 p.m. Eastern. I'm John Fossett with this