Ep. 1483 - FEMA's Shocking Anti-Trump Orders Revealed
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A FEMA official directed relief workers to skip houses with Trump signs out front. Also, Trump begins staffing his next administration, his choices so far give us plenty of reasons for optimism, and scorned Kamala voters are now cutting off their Trump-supporting family members. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, The Daily Wire uncovers a massive scandal at FEMA,
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where an official in the agency directed relief workers to skip houses with Trump signs out front.
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Also, Trump begins staffing his next administration. His choices so far give us
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plenty of reasons for optimism. And scorned Kamala voters are now cutting off their Trump-supporting
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the Matt Walsh show. A month before the presidential election, the people running FEMA decided to venture
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outside the field of disaster relief and into the completely unrelated, if very trendy, business
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of policing, quote unquote, disinformation. Of course, policing disinformation isn't what FEMA
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is paid to do. It's not why FEMA receives tens of billions of dollars every year from taxpayers.
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But in this case, the agency determined that it had no other choice. Disinformation in the eyes of
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the Federal Emergency Management Agency had become its own kind of emergency. It was a disaster unto
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itself. Now, to that end, FEMA's director, a woman named Deanne Criswell, who incidentally broke the
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glass ceiling to become the first woman to head the agency, announced that FEMA would be conducting
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a thorough investigation to, quote, uncover the source of conspiracy theories hampering Hurricane
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Helene relief efforts. Now, among those conspiracy theories were that FEMA was directing funding to
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illegal immigrants and that FEMA was withholding assistance to certain demographic groups.
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As Criswell put it, quote, it's really unfortunate that we try to create this level of fear that is
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impeding our ability to do our job at the level we need to do it. Now, even if these were baseless
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conspiracy theories, it was never explained how they could be hampering hurricane relief efforts.
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I mean, how would kooky internet theories prevent you from helping people whose houses were washed
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away in a flood exactly? She never bothered to explain that. But more importantly, it turns out that
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the theories, of course, were true. Almost immediately, it became very clear that FEMA was indeed
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overseeing the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars to house illegal aliens.
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That was kind of difficult to deny since there was a paper trail. So that's one conspiracy theory
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that was proven true right off the bat, as so many others have been. But the media in this country and
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all over the world continued to maintain that, contrary to what Donald Trump and those deranged
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MAGA Republicans were saying, no disaster relief was being withheld based on demographics or political
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views. And they were very, very clear on that point. Watch.
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Even with all eyes now on Milton, it's the fallout from Helene that suddenly caught up in the ever more
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Kamala Harris has left them stranded. This is the worst response to a storm or a catastrophe or a hurricane
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that we've ever seen, ever. On that, Donald Trump supporters cheered. But fact checkers had a field day,
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labeling Trump's claims Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have failed to properly aid those hit hard by Helene
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as demonstrably false. Biden, in turn, slamming Trump for politicizing Helene's damage
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and harming Americans in need. But it misleads people. It puts people in circumstances where they panic.
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Donald Trump has repeatedly stated falsehoods about the federal response to hurricane relief
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efforts and officials say that's creating fear and it's also demoralizing aid workers.
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In the aftermath of Helene, Trump claimed without evidence that the federal government was
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intentionally withholding aid to people living in Republican areas.
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So this is the moralizing tone that we're all very familiar with at this point. The media wags its
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fingers at Donald Trump for saying something supposedly without evidence. They cited the
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vaunted fact checkers who have already looked into the situation and then they imply that you're a
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moron if you come to the conclusion that FEMA would ever, in its wildest dreams, shortchange American
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citizens who urgently need emergency assistance. We're supposed to believe that FEMA would never
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do such a thing, unless the year is 2005 and Republicans in the White House, in which case
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FEMA desperately wants to kill as many black people as possible. Other than that, FEMA is the gold
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standard. Any suggestion to the contrary is simply misinformation. To give one more example,
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the Atlantic dismissed the quote, rumors alleging that FEMA was abandoning Trump voters after Helene.
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These claims, we were told, were misinformation. And when the media was making these claims about FEMA,
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it's true that there wasn't a written document from FEMA that explicitly stated,
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don't help Trump supporters. But there was still a lot of evidence to back up what Trump was saying.
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For one thing, there were many reports from residents in North Carolina and Florida that
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FEMA wasn't helping them, as I covered on the show at the time. Then Congressman Corey Mills reported
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that the federal government was preventing civilian rescue pilots and aid workers from saving lives in
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the aftermath of Helene, in order to supposedly clear airspace for Air Force One. And then a SpaceX engineer,
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who was assisting rescue efforts on the ground in North Carolina, stated that, quote,
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FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away.
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It's very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now
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on the shipments of new Starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire department,
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but that may not be enough. Now, after these reports came out, the media and the federal government
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obviously should have begun a full investigation about what exactly FEMA was doing. If they actually cared
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about the lives of Republicans living in disaster areas, they wouldn't sit back and lecture us about
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misinformation and claim that we're saying things without evidence, they'd acknowledge that there
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is a lot of very concerning evidence and they would look into the details, but they didn't do that.
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Instead, they scolded us for thinking that FEMA would even consider the possibility of withholding
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assistance from Trump voters who had just been hit by a hurricane.
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So it fell to the Daily Wire to break the story on Friday that, in fact, FEMA had systematically refused
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to provide disaster relief to Trump voters in the aftermath of Helene, and had done so explicitly
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because they're Trump voters. And not just that, a FEMA official had put the plan in writing as clearly
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and as unambiguously as possible. I mean, this is behavior that's so obscene and so malicious that,
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even given everything we know about the Biden-Harris administration, a lot of people still assume
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they couldn't possibly be real. But it is real. And if you or someone you know needs a wake-up call
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about how far Democrats in the federal government will go in order to punish Americans who don't agree
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with them, well, here it is. This is that moment. As the Daily Wire's Lee Flame-Hugh reported,
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quote, a FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to avoid homes advertising Trump
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as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid,
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internal messages viewed by the Daily Wire revealed. The supervisor, Marnie Washington,
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relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government
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employees told the Daily Wire. Now, here's a screenshot of one of the written messages.
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It reads, quote, implement best practices. No one goes anywhere alone. Avoid homes advertising Trump.
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Practice de-escalation and preventative measures. Bring a towel with you in the field. Frequent breaks
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and drink water. Avoid high salt diets and coffee. So the instructions to avoid homes with Trump signs
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is just kind of casually thrown in there along with basic tips for people who are conducting relief
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operations in a disaster zone. It wasn't some special secretive directive. It apparently felt
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completely natural to a FEMA supervisor to put something like this in writing, just casually in
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a list along with other tips. And to be clear, this wasn't some extremely dumb joke or a prank or
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something. This is not Photoshop or whatever. This is not any of that. It's 100% confirmed.
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The Daily Wire's reporting continues, the government employees told the Daily Wire that at least 20
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homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the
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guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with
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the Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers who wrote in the government system
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messages such as, Trump signed no entry per leadership. Yes, that's actually what the FEMA employees
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wrote in the notes section when they were documenting what was happening. And this is what that looked
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like in the government systems. You can see it there. So it says, not able to access property,
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implying that the house was physically inaccessible. And then the note clarifies that actually they were
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able to access the property, they just didn't want to. And yes, that's something that a government
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employee put in writing in a fully traceable and internally accessible database, which is like a bank
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robber passing a note to the teller saying, put all the money in the bag. And by the way, here's my
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home address, my license plate, and my legal name. Within hours of the Daily Wire's reporting, this FEMA
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supervisor was fired. And this time around, FEMA's director wasn't wagging her finger at right-wing
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disinformation. She didn't tell us how unfortunate it was that we were spreading fear. Instead, this time
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she claimed that the supervisor's behavior was extremely unusual, unthinkable at FEMA. Quote,
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recently, one FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to
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not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump. This is a clear violation
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of FEMA's core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation.
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This was reprehensible. I want to be clear to all of my employees and the American people,
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this type of behavior and action will not be tolerated at FEMA. We will hold people accountable
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if they violate these standards of conduct. This employee has been terminated and we have referred
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the matter to the Office of Special Counsel. I will continue to do everything I can to make sure this
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never happens again. Now, what's not addressed in the FEMA director's statement is why she thinks this
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kind of behavior is confined to one FEMA employee. She's trying to play this off as an isolated incident
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when it clearly isn't one. Again, this official gave these instructions multiple times verbally and
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in writing. And the fact that she would say this, much less put it in writing, tells us quite a bit
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about the culture at the agency. Because it seems to me that if helping people regardless of their
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political affiliation really were the core values and principles of FEMA, this supervisor would not
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have felt comfortable giving those kinds of instructions. This is the kind of thing that
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only happens when the entire agency is corrupted. Think about what happened ahead of Trump's election
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in 2016. There were multiple high-ranking FBI officials texting each other on company phones about
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how they'd try to prevent Trump from becoming president. In August 2016, an FBI lawyer texted the head
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of the agency's counterintelligence division, who incidentally was her lover at the time,
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quote, Trump's not ever going to become president, right? Right? And he replied, no, no, he won't.
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We'll stop it. And they talked about an insurance policy in case Trump was elected. Again, the FBI's
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top expert in counterintelligence was using an FBI-issued phone to say stuff like this. That's the kind of
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thing that only happens when you're very confident the FBI wouldn't care if they found out what you're
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saying because they agree with you. It wasn't one or two bad eggs at the FBI. The whole agency was
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compromised. Now, there's every reason to think that the same principle applies to FEMA. At the highest
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levels, FEMA went on the warpath against right-wing disinformation just a month ago. And just a few
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weeks later, all of that alleged disinformation has turned out to be true. So how about we just stop
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insulting everyone's intelligence and admit what everybody knows, which is that FEMA, like pretty
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much every other federal agency, probably voted for Kamala Harris by a nine-to-one margin. And like
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every other government agency that's overrun with left-wing activists, it's not simply incompetent.
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It's an active danger to the well-being of half the country. This is why Elon Musk's plan to gut the
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federal bureaucracy isn't just about cost savings. It's about stopping these lunatics before they get
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more people killed. It's also about hiring people who aren't crazy and unstable. The New York Post did
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some digging on this FEMA supervisor's social media feeds. And here's what they found. Quote,
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the former FEMA employee has a strong fixation with the history of slavery. She posted on her Facebook
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page in 2019 about supposedly the first slave ship to travel to the America in the 1500s,
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as well as an article about how California tried to ban free black individuals in the mid-1800s.
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I'm steadfast and extremely unpredictable, she wrote on her social media page, adding a kiss emoji.
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So she's, that's what you want from someone who's running a disaster relief. That's what you want
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from a government, a bureaucrat running disaster relief, if they describe themselves as extremely
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unpredictable. That's a quality you're looking, but no, she's not just extremely, she's steadfast
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and extremely unpredictable, which seems to me to be like a contradiction in terms. And she's also
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obsessed with slavery, apparently to the point where she wanted some payback against all those
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MAGA Republicans. Maybe that was her motivation, who knows? And just on this basis alone, there's no
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universe in which somebody like this should be employed at taxpayer expense. We simply can't continue
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hiring barely literate left-wing activists anymore. Maybe it's time to take background checks and
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interviews a little more seriously in order to make sure that we never hire one of these morons again,
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especially when they're using kiss emojis on Facebook, which is independently disqualifying.
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Now, in the meantime, for starters, FEMA's director needs to go. And I would hope that'd be one of the
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first things to happen when Trump takes office. And this employee should not just be fired, but prosecuted.
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Now, you can't lock up pro-lifers for praying and then look the other way when a government
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official refuses to assist storm victims because they support Trump. And then we need a full accounting
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for all the other ways that FEMA and other government agencies sabotage the interests of
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American citizens under the Biden-Harris administration. If they're willing to basically write,
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we won't help Trump supporters, I mean, not basically write that, but that's what they wrote,
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and put that in a government database. You could just imagine what a thorough investigation would
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probably uncover. At this point, it wouldn't be unthinkable to discover the FBI was writing notes
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about how they have to arrest as many pro-lifers as possible, as revenge for Roe being overturned,
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or the Department of Education is telling teachers to make students dumb and illiterate so that one day
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they might seriously consider voting for a candidate like Kamala Harris. I mean, nothing's off the table,
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given what we've seen so far. The federal bureaucracy is at war with the citizens who
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pay their salaries. And a lot of well-intentioned Americans have dutifully paid those salaries over
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the years on the assumption that these bureaucrats were public servants that they could count on
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when necessary. But if that was ever true, it's not true anymore. Overwhelmingly, federal bureaucrats are
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servants of the Democrat Party, which demands unwavering loyalty and, as we have seen,
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tolerates no dissent. They're willing to call you liars for pointing out what they know they're
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doing. They're willing to go into storm-ravaged neighborhoods and tell Trump supporters that
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they're on their own. And that's why when the next administration starts, all of these bureaucrats
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will be on their own. Americans aren't going to rush to their defense when the cuts begin.
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When these bureaucrats go to court to save their jobs in the inevitable wave of lawsuits,
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nobody's going to support them. There will be broad support for eliminating civil service
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protections. Everyone understands that a bureaucracy that doesn't serve its citizens
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and that goes out of its way to harm its citizens has no reason to exist.
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Actually, there's at least one exception to that generalization. The corporate press believes that
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the job of the government is to punish its own citizens for wrong things. So they're doing
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everything they can to resist the destruction of the deep state. And that's now very clear as well.
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Last night, a reporter for NBC News had a complete meltdown over The Daily Wire's reporting. And
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this reporter, a woman named Myrna Al-Sarif, wrote a story about The Daily Wire's coverage that failed
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to name the FEMA employee in question and also implied that we don't know when and where this
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incident occurred. But we do have all those details. They're mentioned in The Daily Wire's story.
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Of course, the reporter, who has pronouns in her bio, of course, doesn't mention The Daily Wire in her
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piece, nor does she cite us. But she's clearly read the reporting because we're the ones who broke the
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story in the first place. And then when The Daily Wire's editor, Brent Scher, pointed out all of these
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problems to Myrna, she went on a bizarre tirade, lashing out at everybody who interacted with her.
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For example, and this is, again, a reporter for NBC. She wrote, quote, sorry, Brent Scher, are your
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feelings hurt because I didn't link to The Daily Wire's story? Stay mad. Then when someone pointed
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out that she was acting like a hack, Myrna wrote, quote, the hack is your mama. She went on to call
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somebody the B word and then declared, I get my info from official sources. In other words, she's not going
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to look at the screenshots from FEMA's database because they weren't included in the FEMA press
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release. Therefore, she won't mention them. And then after a bunch of people pointed out that she
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was acting completely unhinged, she called Brent Scher a troll and then deleted her ex-account entirely.
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Now, you can choose to interpret all this as the late night psychotic breakdown of a potentially
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intoxicated NBC News journalist. But the truth is, NBC News, like FEMA, goes out of its way to hire
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people like this. They want people who are dishonest, unintelligent, unhinged, unstable.
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They're willing to tolerate all of those characteristics as long as these people also
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hate Republicans with a passion. That is the one quality they screen for at NBC News. And it's the
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one quality they screen for in the federal government up until now. Put another way, the federal
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bureaucracy is a leviathan that has expanded to the point that it has no shame, no self-awareness,
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no competence, no integrity. It has only a deep and abiding disdain for tens of millions of Americans.
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Disdain that's so pervasive that they're happy to put it in writing.
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They have become emboldened, in part because they have the support of the news media.
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But that's the only support they have at this point.
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It's become too obvious to far too many people that they want to destroy us for what we believe.
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All right, we're starting to get some news about who is going to be in this upcoming Trump
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administration. Daily Wire reports, President-elect Donald Trump announced late on Sunday night that
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he was naming his former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be the new
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border czar. Trump said in a statement, quote, I'm pleased to announce that the former ICE director
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and stalwart on border control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump administration in charge of
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our nation's borders, the border czar, including but not limited to the southern border, the northern
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border, all maritime and aviation security. He continued, I've known Tom for a long time and
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there's nobody better at policing and controlling our borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of
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all deportation of illegal aliens back to their country of origin. Congratulations to Tom.
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I have no doubt he'll do a fantastic and long awaited job. So this is one of the first official
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positions that Trump has filled. And this is going to be the person who, you know, and the good thing
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is that Trump is actually explaining what the border czar is supposed to do, which is already,
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so already he's done, he's not even the president yet. And he's already done more in that regard than
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Biden never did, because as we know, famously, he put Kamala in the position of border czar,
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but never told us what exactly that entails. What is she doing exactly? Turns out she did nothing.
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Well, except facilitate the flood of more illegal immigrants into the country. So she did that.
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But in this case, we're being told exactly what he's going to do. And that includes,
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he is going to be heading up the mass deportation program. So who is this guy? And if you're not
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familiar with him, not sure whether you should be excited about this appointment or not. I think
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there are two clips that should tell you everything you need to know about this guy. First, here he is
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in a hearing, somewhat recently, getting interrogated by AOC. Let's watch that.
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Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents.
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If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in a car, I'm going to be separated. When I was a
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police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from his family.
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Mr. Holman, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
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When you're in the country illegally, there's a violation of the United States Code 1325.
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If you want to seek asylum and go to the port of entry, do it the legal way.
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The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.
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Okay. Mr. Chair, the memo is submitted to the record for review.
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Nothing at all. Nothing at all. Because, of course, what he said there is very simple, very correct.
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Really basic point about the separation of families.
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they're going to be separated from their family, at least for some period of time.
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This is what enforcing the law pretty much always entails.
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As he points out, if somebody commits a DUI, they're going to go to jail.
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You might lament the fact that they're being taken away from their kids.
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But nobody would blame the court system for separating.
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Nobody would say that, well, because this person has a kid, they just shouldn't go to jail at all.
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They should be allowed to do whatever they want.
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They shouldn't be punished for DUI because they have a kid.
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You're like, well, this is all the more reason to punish them.
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So, very basic point there, but true and correct and important.
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And then AOC says, well, they haven't committed a crime.
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And you notice, of course, what's happened here.
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It's very obvious that the rebranding of illegal immigrants.
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Okay, we went from they were illegal immigrants and then it became undocumented immigrants.
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And then there's really been an update in the branding, the euphemisms used by people like AOC.
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But now you don't even hear that term used as often because instead they just call them all asylum seekers.
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Every single, this is really what AOC believes.
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What she would say is that every single illegal immigrant in this country is an asylum seeker.
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Just by the very fact that they came here, even if they never seek asylum in any kind of official legal way.
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If somebody came here as an illegal immigrant 15 years ago and has just been living here and, you know, working a job that they shouldn't be working because it belongs to an American citizen, they're an asylum seeker.
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They never actually sought asylum in any official way.
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But they're automatically an asylum seeker because they are here.
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Tom Homan is saying, no, it turns out there's actually an official process for seeking asylum.
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And if you don't, then that's what makes you an illegal immigrant.
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So that tells you something about this guy's, you know, approach.
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This is from 60 Minutes a couple of months ago.
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We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.
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Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
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So in other words, yeah, you should be excited about this appointment.
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This is exactly the kind of guy that you need in the government.
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This is the kind of guy you need in leadership positions.
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It's the kind of guy you need handling a problem like this.
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Everything about him, even the way, just the look, everything.
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Even before you hear him say anything, you can just kind of look at this guy.
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And then you hear what he has to say, and it makes it very clear.
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Trump's border czar is the guy who said that the way to prevent family separations is to deport the whole family together, which is true.
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This is the appropriate way to handle family separations.
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If you don't want to separate the family, well, send them all back.
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You know, that's how you solve the problem solved.
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And that is the appropriate way to handle family separations.
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But it's the kind of thing that until Trump, no Republican official would ever say.
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And more importantly, it's a policy that they would never enact.
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We need someone who will coolly and dispassionately apply the law.
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Enough of the compassionate conservative types who are so easily manipulated by airheads like AOC.
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We also don't need, on the other end of that spectrum, maybe some kind of like crusading firebrand type.
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You just need a guy who's competent and serious, no nonsense.
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So are you going to deport 20 million illegal immigrants?
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However many are here is how many we're going to deport.
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Once we deport them all, then we don't have to worry.
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Then if that makes you sad, once you deport all of them, then you don't have to deport anybody anymore.
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I will say this, and I don't want to hype things up too much ahead of time.
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But if Trump staffs his whole administration with guys like this, then his second term could be, could be, could be one of the great presidential terms in American history if he does that, if these are the kinds of guys that are put into these positions.
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And when I say these kinds of guys, what do I mean?
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I mean, these are guys who are, they're not neocons.
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They're also not attention-seeking blowhards, right, who seem like they're trying to parlay the job into a cable news gig.
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This is someone who's both competent and totally unconcerned with the left-wing narrative.
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A competent, no-nonsense guy who doesn't care what the liberals are whining about.
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Just, you need a, that's, they don't need to be performative.
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You just need someone who cares about getting the job done, is going to get it done.
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And if the left is crying about it, they don't care.
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We need a whole administration of guys just like that.
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All right, left-wing students on campuses are struggling to cope with the election results.
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But some colleges are finding ways to help them through this difficult time.
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As ballots continue to be counted, Chico State is offering support to students
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who might be feeling some distress if it didn't go their way.
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Well, Action News Now reporter, Sade Poulin, is, she actually spoke with a university counselor
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and shows us why the service is being offered now.
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Chico State's president, Stephen Perez, announced Wednesday morning
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that students that are upset about the election results
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have a safe space here on campus through mental health services.
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Perez says although some may be excited about the outcome,
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marginalized communities may be feeling especially heavy post-election.
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The senior director for student affairs, Dawn Frank, tells me that depending on the administration
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and office, potential policy changes could affect those communities more than others.
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This includes people of color, the LGBTQ plus community, undocumented students, and women.
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Some of those communities following the election have a lot of fear,
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have a lot of grief, and a lot of uncertainty of what comes next.
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So we wanted to make sure that we created safe spaces.
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Frank says that the university offered counseling services for the last two presidential elections,
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She says in the last few years, the university has seen the need.
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For a lot of the folks, again, because of the fear and the uncertainty of what's coming,
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And so I would argue that counseling is not a dramatic response,
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Some of it was more formalized counseling services,
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and others were really just more intentional interactions,
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come in and, you know, do meditation coloring sheets.
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Frank tells me that the university is offering the support after several students' request.
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So they're giving therapeutic coloring books to students who are traumatized by Trump getting elected.
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But if I was running a college campus, I would also offer coloring books to any students who are feeling sad
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so that anyone who came to get a coloring book could be immediately expelled.
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And this is how a college campus would work under my direction.
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We'd offer, you know, the wokest services imaginable.
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The catch is that you'll be expelled if you request them.
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So it's like a, it's like a, it's like an elaborate, it's like a booby trap.
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And if you, you fall into it, if you come and ask for it.
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And by the way, I'd still give you the coloring book.
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But you'd be given the coloring book, and then you'd be told that you can leave the campus
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and go do your coloring somewhere else because you're banned for life.
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You know, plenty has been said about snowflake college students.
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There probably isn't much that needs to be added to that point.
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But I will just say that this is, again, the problem with living in a society where people
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go to therapy to deal with every uncomfortable experience or inconvenience that they encounter.
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Because then suddenly everything is traumatizing.
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You are not, you are not traumatized by the election.
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Okay, actually not, not everything is a trauma.
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You shouldn't be any of those things in response to Trump winning.
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If you want an election to go a certain way, it goes the other way.
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And a lot of people these days, especially younger people, just cannot draw a distinction between an uncomfortable emotional experience and trauma.
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It's kind of like, you know, I was talking to a doctor recently, and I was asking him about the, something I've always wondered about with the, you know, the pain scale that they have, the one to ten.
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And if you go to a doctor, you go to an emergency room, they'll ask you how much pain you're feeling, and they say on a scale of one to ten.
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And I've always wondered about it, because not only is it subjective, obviously, but I have to imagine that these days, when so many people are weak and prone to hysteria, that, and, you know, just dramatic and theatrical, and they love being victims.
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I mean, not everybody, but there are plenty of people like that.
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You must get a lot of patients who come in claiming that their pain is a ten.
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You must, when you, as a nurse or a doctor, you must hear a lot of nines and tens all the time from people.
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One of the many reasons I could never be a doctor or a nurse, because many reasons.
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One of them is this, that every person who tells me, oh, my pain's a nine or ten, I'm like, eh, is it really?
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I mean, if you're shot in the stomach or something and actively bleeding, then maybe I'll buy a nine or ten.
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And the doctor I was talking to said that, you know, this is an issue.
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He also said that the whole pain scale number thing is sort of, is not, they're not, they're looking more at your vitals and other physical clinical signs than the number that you assign.
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So I'm not even sure what the point of the number is.
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Anyway, the point is that something similar happens with emotional pain, I think.
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You know, because the emotional equivalent of a stubbed toe is now categorized as trauma.
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And so I'm not, like, joking or being hyperbolic at all when I say that these people, especially these kids on college campuses that are, you know, going to the counseling center because they truly have lost the ability to distinguish between emotional discomfort and trauma.
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The idea that something could make you emotionally uncomfortable and yet not be traumatic is offensive to them.
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They're traumatized by the very suggestion that they are traumatized.
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And this is all part of the therapeutic industry.
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And this is the mentality that it's instilled in so many people.
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All right, here's a guy who's certainly traumatized.
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Says, Barack Obama is nervous about his legacy after President-elect Donald Trump's historic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
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Former President's biographer said, he has been and remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy, said David Garrow, who wrote the biography, Rising Star, The Making of Barack Obama.
00:39:18.320
That has certainly taken a big hit with Trump once again triumphing.
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The conclusion for Democrats is that they've got to dispense with these people from the past, including Hillary Clinton, too, and move to a new generation of figures who are not in the AOC club at all.
00:39:33.400
Well, I will say Obama should be nervous about his legacy because it is in shambles.
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This is what I love about the situation that he finds himself in.
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It's that no matter how you look at it, no matter which side you're on, his legacy is garbage.
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This is something that now both sides will have to agree, his legacy is garbage.
00:40:10.020
So if you're a conservative, then you can clearly see the truth, which is that Obama was potentially the worst president in United States history.
00:40:28.320
Really depends on what happens in the future because you have to have time to see the long-term effects of the presidency.
00:40:36.040
And with Obama, we've had that time, and we've seen the long-term effects, and they were catastrophic.
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So he was, as far as we know right now, the worst president in history.
00:40:45.380
He destroyed the country, destroyed our culture.
00:40:50.320
He made America more fractured, less stable, less prosperous.
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He was a destructive force economically, socially, culturally.
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That's what you would say, what you would correctly say if you're on the right.
00:41:04.820
If you're on the left, you'd probably object to most of that analysis.
00:41:12.260
But from your perspective on the left, the Obama years led directly to Trump
00:41:17.180
and to the eventual undoing of the entire Democrat Party.
00:41:21.460
I mean, the entire Democrat Party is now just, it's going to have to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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And if the Democrat Party after Obama is in shambles, then Obama's legacy is in shambles
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Which means that he failed even by their estimation.
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Who would view Obama as a success at this point?
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Who could in the year 2024, as we head into 2025, after this past election,
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who would look at Obama now and say, wow, that was fantastic.
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If anything on the left, they'd be less likely to say that now.
00:42:11.560
You know, certainly on the right we'd say this.
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But at this point, you couldn't possibly look at that as any kind of great success.
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So, yeah, his legacy is completely and totally destroyed.
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As we discussed during this segment last week, the left has tried different coping mechanisms in response to Kamala's humiliating defeat on Tuesday.
00:44:31.360
They've tried screaming hysterically in their cars.
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They've tried swearing off all sexual relations with men.
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None of that seems to have assuaged their anguish.
00:44:45.380
Kamala voters on TV and in social media have declared that the only path forward is to cut off all contact with friends and family members who voted for Trump.
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A child psychiatrist from Yale made this exact recommendation on MSNBC.
00:44:59.840
Are people challenged with the idea of how do you interact with people who you know voted for this, right?
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If you are an LGBTQ person and you know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights or you're a woman knowing that, you know, this man was calling people the B word.
00:45:14.940
J.D. Vance was literally calling Kamala Harris the trash and said we're going to take out the trash.
00:45:20.200
I know a lot of black women were incredibly triggered by that.
00:45:22.780
And if you then meet somebody and you know they voted for the people who called you trash or if you're Puerto Rican, you know, you know someone voted that way, do you recommend just from a psychological standpoint being around them?
00:45:37.000
So I love that you asked this question because, you know, there is a push.
00:45:41.260
I think just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.
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So if you are going into a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood.
00:46:02.940
And it's completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why, you know, to say I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood and I'm not going to be around you this holiday.
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So Joy Reid wants to know how someone is supposed to interact with a family member who voted differently.
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This is the kind of question you only ask if you have the maturity and intelligence of a brain damaged lizard.
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But for normal people, it's not confusing or difficult.
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You interact with your family members by speaking to them.
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I'd recommend starting with hello or, you know, a similar greeting.
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If you want to avoid talking politics with them, that's fine.
00:46:45.940
I personally enjoy debating politics with my family, although we all we agree on the fundamentals.
00:46:55.660
But, you know, if you don't want to debate it, you don't have to.
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But that's not what this Yale psychiatrist says.
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According to her, your family is only your family if they agree with you politically.
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This is the kind of insight we can expect from Ivy League mental health experts.
00:47:13.980
She is recommending isolation, alienation and the severing of support systems.
00:47:19.160
Okay, that's what a psychiatrist is recommending to people who are already obviously mentally unstable, which is like a cardiologist advising someone to elevate their cholesterol levels to like 300.
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I mean, it's the opposite of what you're supposed to be telling people to do, obviously.
00:47:37.160
And if you're wondering why I'm extremely skeptical of the psychiatry profession, well, this woman is exhibit one million, approximately.
00:47:46.440
A lot of people seem to have taken her advice, however.
00:47:48.980
Here's a guy on TikTok giving his followers some self-care tips in the wake of the election results.
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Just a reminder that going no contact with somebody or people, family members, friends, because they voted for Trump and against your rights and your freedoms, in my opinion, is one of the ultimate forms of self-care.
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That's about it, like, if someone wants you to have less rights and freedoms, then how the f*** is that, how is that person your family member or a friend?
00:48:32.980
Why would you want to spend Thanksgiving with them?
00:48:36.960
Like, if they don't give a f*** about your rights and freedoms, then how the f*** do they give a f*** about you?
00:48:48.580
If they don't give an f*** about your rights and freedoms, then how the f*** do they give an f*** about you?
00:48:54.900
Never mind the fact that none of these people can possibly explain which of their rights are threatened by Trump.
00:49:00.100
What right, specifically, has Trump promised to end?
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That ultimately is why they want to cut off contact with their Trump-supporting family members.
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It's not that those family members are rude or abusive to them.
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It's that those family members may ask them to explain their political position, which is something they absolutely cannot do.
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That explains this post from somebody named Derek over on X.
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Yes, Derek says that if you are not spitting on the graves of your own family, you need to take a long look in the mirror.
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You need to stop and consider what went wrong in your life that you aren't disowning your family and spitting on their graves.
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That's what all the totally well-adjusted and normal human beings are doing.
00:50:00.140
I think the point has been made, but I will only reiterate that Derek here cannot explain how Trump is a fascist or what fascism is or why he's opposed to it, whatever it is.
00:50:13.960
And he certainly doesn't want to be asked that question at Thanksgiving.
00:50:16.780
He'd rather betray his own blood, stab them in the back, than have his own intellectual vacuousness exposed.
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Unfortunately for Derek, you know, a little too late for that.
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We haven't even gotten to the worst example yet.
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Here's a Kamala voter attacking her own children for disagreeing with her dumb political views.
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So here's a problem that I have dealing with my MAGA sons.
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They get very, very offended if I say that I think that they are ignorant to some things because of their support for this grapist and felon.
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I have two choices when I try to understand why they would support an abhorrent human that goes against every value I try to instill in them.
00:51:25.580
I can believe that you are ignorant or I can believe that you are evil.
00:51:37.220
So just to review, this horrific witch of a woman decided to make a TikTok video publicly accusing her own sons of either being ignorant or evil because they voted for someone she doesn't like.
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What information do you have, lady, about Trump that they don't have?
00:51:59.380
I'm sure you've tried, but the problem is that you believe a bunch of nonsense that you heard from MSNBC.
00:52:06.240
And your sons are too respectful to inform you that you are a pretentious dimwit with your head stuck up your ass.
00:52:12.500
Unfortunately, you aren't my mom, so I can say that to you.
00:52:15.020
They won't say it, I'm guessing, because they care about their family, which is more than I can say about you.
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Now, let me end this with just one last thought for any leftist considering cutting off contact with family members who committed the sin of having a mind and opinions of their own.
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But if you do, please don't bother us a few years from now with some tearful follow-up video crying about how lonely and sad you are.
00:52:48.880
Because none of us will have any sympathy for you.
00:53:03.500
I mean, that woman in that video, she's going to die alone.
00:53:06.900
She's going to be in a nursing home just dying alone with no one to even visit her.
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And if they do, they're going to do so begrudgingly because they don't want to spend any time with her.
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To return from a theme from last week, that's justice.
00:53:32.660
You are disowning and disavowing the only people who love and care about you unconditionally.
00:53:37.940
Now, for most of the people in these videos and most of these leftist types who would want to disown their families,
00:53:44.240
the rest of us don't want to be around you or talk to you or even get to know you
00:53:49.240
because you're incredibly unpleasant and insufferable.
00:53:54.980
No other person in the world, I guarantee you, no one wants to be around that woman.
00:53:59.900
Either friends that she has hate her guts and talk about her behind her back.
00:54:12.960
If you push them away, you'll be left with no one.
00:54:17.220
You'll be miserable and alone and alienated from the only people who ever cared about you or wanted to be around you.
00:54:26.460
But, hey, at least you'll have made a statement about Trump.
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A statement that will have no impact on the world outside of your own life,
00:54:35.600
which you will have made even more miserable than it already was.
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And that is why you will be, at that point, and are now, already, today, canceled.