Ep. 1642 - Why Foreign Truck Drivers Are An Extreme Danger To All Americans
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An illegal immigrant truck driver was somehow granted a CDL, then went on to cause an accident that killed three people. Also, Barack Obama is building a giant hideous monument to himself in Chicago, and the local residents aren t happy about it. And Joy Reid declares that white people have never invented anything.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an illegal immigrant truck driver was somehow granted a CDL. He then
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went on to cause an accident that killed three people. This incident was not an aberration. It's
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part of a much larger and very disturbing pattern we'll discuss. Also, Barack Obama is building a
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giant hideous monument to himself in Chicago, and the local residents aren't happy about it.
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And Joy Reid declares that white people have never invented anything at all. Is that true?
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Obviously not, but we'll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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There's never been a political movement in world history that relied on euphemisms more than the
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modern left. Every single issue was filtered through euphemisms like restorative justice or
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affirmative action or a woman's right to choose, quote unquote, or equity. So it's not surprising
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that as America imported tens of millions of foreign nationals, Democrats used the same
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familiar strategy. Instead of explaining in detail why America needs to open its borders or how the job
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market would benefit from a massive new influx of people, Democrats simply extolled the virtues of
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diversity. Or a melting pot, they said. Until they stopped talking about melting pot because that
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implies assimilation, which they are not in favor of. But the point of these euphemisms is to
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misdirect. In the context of immigration, they want you to talk about the abstract concept of
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multiculturalism without getting into the specifics of the particular cultures that we are inviting
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into this country. You know, we've talked a lot on the show about third world immigration and the
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problems that it causes. But one problem in particular that we haven't spent a lot of time on,
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because there's so many problems, you know, you got to know where to, you can only focus on one at a time,
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but one of the big problems is, is road safety. Because one thing about the third world, third
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world, third world countries is that they tend not to have traffic laws the way that we do in this
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country. Their roads are total chaos and people die all the time in very preventable ways. And when I
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say preventable, I mean like just a traffic light or a crosswalk might have prevented it. But in many
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of these countries, they don't have that. Of course, if you take a huge number of people from
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these cultures and you quickly relocate them to the United States without any degree of vetting
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whatsoever, you're not going to magically reprogram any of that kind of behavior. Realistically,
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you can't tell all the foreign trunk drivers to forget everything they know about the free-for-all
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system in their home countries. You can't force them all to learn English well enough to understand
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every sign that we've placed on the interstate. That's simply not a reasonable expectation when
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you're bringing in so many people all at once. Instead, the more we bring, uh, the more we bring
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into this country, the more our roads will resemble the roads of their home countries. And in practical
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terms, that means that the roads will become a lot more dangerous. Um, now after this fatal crash
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that took place last week on the Florida Turnpike, which was caught on video, a lot of people are
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finally coming around to this realization. Uh, watch. Now this is footage from inside, uh, the cab of
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the truck. A truck driver named Harjinder Singh was driving an 18-wheeler in the right-hand lane on the
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Florida Turnpike. Singh then realizes he's going the wrong way, but instead of continuing on to the next
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exit, as any competent or sane truck driver would do, Singh instead turns his truck to the left, uh,
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from the right lane in order to enter an emergency U-turn area, which is reserved for emergency vehicles.
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And this maneuver has the effect of suddenly and unexpectedly blocking all lanes of traffic on the
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freeway. Within seconds out of the blue, a van that had been traveling in the left lane had nowhere to
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go. The van then plows into Singh's trailer, killing all three passengers in the van. Now Harjinder Singh
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has been charged by Florida authorities with three counts of vehicular homicide. The victims include
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a 30-year-old man, a 54-year-old man, and a 37-year-old woman. It was clear that everyone in the van was
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killed immediately on impact. And yet, as you saw from the footage, Singh didn't appear to be particularly
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horrified by the crash that he had caused. In the aftermath, as he's standing on the side of the freeway
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while firefighters removed the three bodies from the van, he seems mildly annoyed by the whole
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thing. I mean, it's almost as if he comes from a country where these kinds of deadly highway
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accidents happen all the time. It's almost as if street signs aren't a big deal to Harjinder Singh.
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Who could have seen this coming? By now, you've probably heard that Singh entered the U.S. illegally by
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crossing the U.S.-Mexico border seven years ago. After he was caught, Singh claimed that he was afraid to
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return to India, where he's from, and so he was allowed to remain in the United States, pending
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immigration proceedings that, of course, have dragged on for the better part of a decade.
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This is the asylum scam that we're all very familiar with. Foreigners have learned that
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if they say the right words, they can just walk right into the country and there will be no follow-up
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whatsoever. And then once they're here, they can undercut U.S. workers by taking jobs for much less
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pay. No one in the government does anything to stop them, particularly in left-wing states.
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There's no oversight whatsoever. And that's why Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver's
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license in California, even though he had no legal right to be in the country. Yes, a criminal
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who should have been deported many years ago, who comes from a country that's notorious for its
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extremely high rate of highway fatalities, was allowed to obtain a government-issued license to
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drive an 18-wheeler on our highways. As confirmed by DHS, Singh's federal work authorization was rejected
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by the Trump administration in mid-September of 2020, but the Biden administration approved it
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less than one year later, in June of 2021. And the state of California, meanwhile, was no obstacle
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whatsoever. What this means is that the leadership of the state of California, along with the Biden
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administration, is an accomplice to these three homicides that took place on the Florida turnpike.
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The point of a driver's license, in particular a commercial driver's license, which lets you operate the
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single most dangerous vehicle on the interstate, is to ensure that only competent, law-abiding people
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are behind the wheel. Somebody who breaks federal law to enter this country, by definition, is not
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law-abiding. Therefore, they cannot be relied upon to follow traffic laws or laws against DUI or any other
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laws. But because of so-called sanctuary policies, criminals are allowed to drive these massive trucks all
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the time, all over the country. Now, obviously, California should be sued immediately, and a
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criminal investigation should be opened into Gavin Newsom as well. There's actually precedent for this.
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George Ryan was the governor of Illinois from 1999 to 2003. He was taken down by a scandal known as
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Operation Safe Road, involving the sale of commercial driver's licenses to unqualified drivers. The scandal
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dated back to 1994, when six children were killed after a taillight assembly fell off a semi on the
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interstate and struck the gas tank of a minivan behind it. Other drivers had tried to warn the
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semi-driver that his taillight assembly was dangling loose, but the semi-driver couldn't speak English.
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He had bought his license on the black market. It later emerged that the governor himself was
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implicated in distributing commercial licenses to drivers who were unable to understand basic English.
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Now, in today's California, Gavin Newsom is clearly overseeing the distribution of driver's
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licenses to very unqualified drivers. So it's reasonable to say that we need a full accounting
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for exactly how this is happening and how state officials in California are processing these
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licenses. But at the same time, we have to acknowledge that the problem is not limited
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to California. The biggest open secret in the trucking industry is how widespread this fraud really
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is. Foreigners with no understanding of our country's customs or laws are routinely handed the
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keys to 18 wheelers, often to disastrous results. And very often their employer is a shell company
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that's impossible to actually punish in any meaningful way. Now, when I was researching this
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monologue, I went online and looked up a bunch of recent crashes involving 18 wheelers. All of these
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clips are from the last two years. And every single one of them involves a driver who very clearly is not
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an American. This is a report from just a few months ago out of Dallas, Fort Worth. Watch.
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Five people are dead, including children. And at least four other people are fighting for their lives
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after a drunk driver caused a chain reaction crash in Austin that happened around 1130 last night.
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And the man now charged with this violent accident was behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler.
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Solomon Weldekiel Araya was arrested and charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter,
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two counts of intoxication assault. The 37 year old was driving an 18 wheeler. Weldekiel Araya was
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supposed to be in court in Wilmer just south of Dallas this coming Tuesday for a 63 in a 30 mile an
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hour zone speeding ticket. An Amazon spokesperson in a statement writes, this is a horrible tragedy
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and our thoughts are with all those involved. So Solomon Weldekiel Araya is accused of causing
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an 18 vehicle pileup that killed five people, including children and injured 11. And now guess
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what? He's out on $7,000 bond. Most likely he won't spend any time in prison at all. One of my producers
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reached out to ICE about Solomon's case and they told us he was subject to removal proceedings.
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So we can make the obvious inference here. This is yet another person who shouldn't even be inside
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the country. And yet he's here and he's driving a semi truck. Here's another report from the same
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news station in Dallas just three months ago. A man named Alexis Asmani Gonzalez Campagnani fell
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asleep at the wheel of his 18 wheeler. And here's what happened next.
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20 year old woman is the only survivor from her immediate family after a deadly multi vehicle
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crash. Hello everybody. I'm Heather Hayes. I'm Steve Eager. It's nine o'clock. The seven vehicle
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crash happened in Kaufman County over the weekend. The driver of an 18 wheeler allegedly told police
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he fell asleep at the wheel. The crash killed five people, one solo driver and four members of the
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same family in one car. Fox Sports David Centendry has been learning about all those victims tonight.
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Yes, even Heather and that arrest warrant we obtained reveals that the driver of that 18
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wheeler reportedly admitted to police that he fell asleep behind the wheel until he was awoken by that
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deadly crash. He caused 27 year old Alexis Asmani Gonzalez Campagnani faces five charges of manslaughter
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and one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to an arrest warrant,
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the first trooper on scene did not see any brake or skid marks on the ground. This indicated that
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the tractor trailer did not apply its brakes. Now, um, so that's a horrifying story. And as I said,
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they're happening all the time. Meanwhile, over in Nevada, a 29 year old African named Claude
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Rafiki drove on the wrong side of the road in his 18 wheeler. He ran over several motorcyclists,
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killing three of them. One of the fatalities was a 22 year old man celebrating his birthday. He was
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crushed by the 18 wheeler as his parents looked on. Here's how the media covered that story.
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It's just after two 30 on March 23rd. This video, the eight news now investigators obtained
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shows this semi truck heading West on route one 63 near Laughlin when it slowly moves across a pair
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of rumble strips and onto the wrong side of the road. The driver narrowly misses a car before staying
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on the wrong side for 15 more seconds. Then as a group of eight motorcycles comes around the corner,
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the impact. We are pausing the video there. 22 year old Owen Hart was riding with his fiance
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to celebrate his birthday. They would die along with another rider in the group.
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Nevada state police originally arrested 29 year old Claude Rafiki on three charges of DUI
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resulting in death. In an arrest report, the eight news now investigators obtained a trooper deemed
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Rafiki's performance on a field sobriety test unsatisfactory. As of Tuesday, we don't know why
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Rafiki was on the wrong side of the road. In all, the video shows him there for 25 seconds.
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Now, Rafiki told police that it was actually the wind that caused him to go the wrong way.
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And the National Weather Service had issued a warning that day about gusts in that area.
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Yes, the wind. The wind did it. The wind supposedly blew an 18-wheeler onto the wrong side of the road
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for 30 seconds. Now, what's strange about the wind is that other than Claude Rafiki,
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no one else was blown out of their lane. No one else seems to have been impacted by it.
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Even the motorcyclists were able to maintain their lanes right up until he killed them.
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But according to a local news report, we're supposed to infer that Rafiki has a plausible
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defense here. Now, notice how in this news report, they don't demonstrate any curiosity about whether
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Claude Rafiki was a legal immigrant or whether he could speak English, how he obtained a commercial
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driver's license in Michigan. According to one local news station, quote, Rafiki's initial court
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appearance was delayed several days as the courts were working to find Rafiki a translator. Rafiki speaks
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Kinyarwanda, a Central African language. Now, right away, you think this would disqualify someone
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from holding a commercial driver's license? He can't read the street signs. He needs a specialized
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translator from Africa in order to understand what's happening around him. But apparently none of this
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is disqualifying in sanctuary states. They'll hand you a commercial driver's license and send you on
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your way. Even if you kill several people, they don't think it's a big deal. Rafiki was only
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sentenced to roughly four years in jail after all this. For killing three people, he got four years
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in jail. It's about, what, a year and, you know, four months per person that he killed. Again, pretty
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much every single trucking accident is like this. Back in Fort Worth, I came across this report from late
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last year. The family of a woman killed in Fort Worth by a suspected drunk truck driver is suing
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the truck company. Fox Sports Dan England spoke with a mother of two. The family expressed their
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frustration. Dion. Clarice, the family of Amanda Michelle Wright says she was taken from them by
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someone who decided to drive while intoxicated. He should have never been hired. He should never
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have been behind the wheel. 24-year-old Guadalupe Velasquez Cruz is behind bars charged with
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intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. A friend riding with Amanda was seriously injured
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in the rear-end collision. She was a designated driver coming home from a concert. There was traffic
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on 820 West early morning of September 19th. As she was stopped in traffic, there was cars in front
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of her. Yes, Guadalupe Velasquez Cruz was the culprit here. So another classic American name for you.
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And who could forget the crash caused by Ignacio Cruz Mendoza, the drug trafficker who had been
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deported more than a dozen times? Watch. Federal court documents which show Ignacio Cruz Mendoza was
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arrested for a low-level drug crime. Punishment was 10 days in jail. Now he's behind bars in Colorado
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for vehicular homicide. A driver of a semi-truck may have been going too fast when he lost control
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on Highway 285. Law enforcement is familiar with this man, Ignacio Cruz Mendoza. Federal officials say
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he had been deported or left the U.S. voluntarily 16 times over the last 22 years. It began in 2002
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when Cruz Mendoza was arrested in Oregon. 9 News Investigates learned it was a low-level drug
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trafficking charge. 10 days in jail, 18 months probation. Federal records show some of his
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immigration history. Cruz Mendoza was deported on September 10, 2004. He re-entered the U.S.
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without proper authorization 10 days later. Other than the drug trafficking charge, ICE is not aware
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of any other local criminal charges on his record. In Colorado, State Patrol says he was driving a big
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brake without a commercial driver's license. The crash killed the 64-year-old man and seriously hurt
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another person. Colorado police determined that, quote, speed was a primary reason for the crash
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and that the truck's brakes failed. But in the end, this guy only received a seven-month prison
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sentence. He's been deported, so essentially he suffered no consequences whatsoever. Before long,
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he'd probably be back in the country driving another truck for some other fake company.
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The truth is, there are so many crashes like this taking place every day in this country that it's
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impossible to track them all. And very often, the media doesn't tell us anything about them.
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Take this crash from late last month at Coachella Valley, for example. We still have
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no explanation for how this happened or who the driver was.
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New at 6, stunning new video capturing a deadly crash on the 10 freeway in Coachella Valley. The CHP says
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it happened just before 7 o'clock this morning near Date Palm Drive exit. A big rig appears to have
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lost control and swerved straight into the center divider before crashing into oncoming traffic.
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It all happened so fast that drivers didn't have enough time to react. The CHP says two people
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died in this crash. Now, the latest news article I can find in the story is four weeks old. There
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doesn't seem to be much urgency in California to get to the bottom of it. An 18-wheeler views across
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the freeway, killed several people, and we're not allowed to know anything about who the driver was.
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Nobody will provide any kind of update on the investigation whatsoever, and that's how things
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work in California. It's also how things work in Canada. A few years ago in Ontario, a truck driver
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named Mahakdeep Singh plowed into a car while he was texting on his phone. We'll pull that footage.
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I'll put it up on the screen right now. The crash killed two children ages 7 and 3, and their 68-year-old
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grandmother. Now, Mahakdeep Singh shouldn't have been driving at all. He falsified his logbook for one thing.
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For another, Canada never should have allowed him into the country, but in the end, he was
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sentenced to just five years in prison. Probably won't even be deported. For wiping out an entire
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family, you get a lighter sentence than what George Santos got. That's not surprising in Canada. Back in
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2018, somebody named Jaskarat Singh Sidhu killed 16 people, including several members of a junior ice
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hockey team called the Humboldt Broncos. Jaskarat failed to stop at a stop sign, plowed directly into the team
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bus. He had dozens of recorded safety violations the days prior to the crash. Shouldn't have been
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on the roads either. And as punishment for destroying more than a dozen families and wiping
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out a small town's hockey team, killing everyone, he received a sentence of just eight years in prison.
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For comparison, that's what? That's six months per death? For comparison, that's the same sentence
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that the government of Canada sought against the organizer of the nonviolent trucker convoy
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protesting COVID mandates. That's how far gone Canada is. Upsetting the government
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is treated as equally as bad as mass murder. What's extraordinary about these kinds of incidents
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from a political perspective is how easy they would be to stop. In the United States, at least,
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we don't have to tolerate this. Here's a paragraph I just pulled from the U.S. Immigration Law
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Council, which assists illegal aliens. Quote, if you're not a citizen, legal permanent resident
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or resident of Canada or Mexico, then you could obtain a non-domiciled CDL in the U.S. if you meet
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certain requirements. Skillful immigration attorneys can help navigate you through this process when
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you're unsure. Well, this process needs to be ended immediately. There should be no room for a
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skillful immigration attorney or any immigration attorney to secure a commercial driver's license
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for someone who is not a citizen or even legal permanent resident of the United States. The
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entire category of non-domiciled CDLs should be outlawed federally by Congress. States like California
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should be barred from issuing them for any reason. This would not be remotely difficult to do.
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Under the Constitution, the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce,
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so it's time to regulate it. Doing so would save lives. There's no question about it. But at the
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same time, it wouldn't solve the whole problem. In part, that's because of open corruption that takes
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place in DMVs all over the country. It's not just happening in Gavin Newsom's California. This is from
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the Fox affiliate in Florida just a month ago. Quote, eight people have been arrested in Florida in
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connection with an alleged driver's license scheme involving undocumented immigrants. During the
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investigation authorities discovered that two DMV employees were issuing an abnormally high number
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of driver's licenses. Upon reviewing DMV surveillance footage, investigators confirmed that the
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individuals receiving these licenses were not completing the legally required tests. The probe
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also revealed that the individuals seeking the licenses were connected through a third-party
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intermediary. Recently, there have been similar busts in California and New York and all over the
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country. And we all know that these arrests are barely scratching the surface. The only DMV employees
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who were caught in all these cases were being extremely obvious about it. So this is Operation
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Safe Road all over again. So we have systemic corruption at every level. The DMV is corrupt.
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Many of these trucking companies don't really exist. Totally unaccountable. And the drivers,
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who often have no regard for our laws or our language or our anything, are able to walk free just a
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couple of years after they kill American citizens. Getting rid of non-domiciled CDLs is one step,
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but the Trump administration has to go much further than that. We need daily raids at rest stops on
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all these highways, just like they're raiding Home Depots. Arrest every single illegal alien with a
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useless CDL from California or Michigan or anywhere else. And then the federal government should use
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the same dragnet they used on the January 6th grandmothers to hunt down everyone who's ever opened
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one of these fake trucking companies to employ illegal aliens. This is what RICO laws were made
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for. Don't just go after the companies that employ these truckers. Go after the people who establish
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all of these shell companies. And then when you're done with all that, find a way to make sure that
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more Americans are driving these trucks and running these companies. Give them whatever incentives are
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needed. Make the mandatory testing for CDLs about 10 times harder than it is and include a language
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test. Force states to immediately report the name of every trucker involved in a fatal crash, along
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with the name of their company and its owner. If the information doesn't check out, which it almost
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the market. The mayor's race in Minneapolis continues. Voting begins soon, I believe.
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So let's check in on the latest political rally for the leading contender in that race. And let's
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see, let's see what that's like. Here it is. Check it out.
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Yes, that is a political rally in Minnesota in the year 2025.
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It's in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Vikings, the 32nd state in the union.
00:30:00.560
The birthplace of Bob Dylan, land of 10,000 lakes that were created through the footsteps of Paul Bunyan, as the folk tales, as the American folk tales tell us.
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And yet the leading mayoral candidate is holding rallies that look like a scene from Black Hawk Down.
00:30:28.020
If I showed you that without any context, and I told you that it was a rally in Somalia to elect the new village warlord or whatever, you'd believe me.
00:30:42.560
And notice, when you look at that clip, notice what you don't notice.
00:30:47.680
You don't notice American flags, patriotic music, English.
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Just like the problem of drunk illegals on our roadways, behind semi-trucks, killing entire families.
00:31:20.980
It's very possible to make it so that that doesn't happen.
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Now, what rules could we make that would prohibit the scene that we just witnessed?
00:31:51.120
Well, we could pass a law saying that political candidates and political officials cannot engage in political activities in any language but English.
00:32:03.220
And if you want to hold political office in this country, you need to speak in a language that your constituents can understand.
00:32:09.400
You know, if I'm a Minneapolis resident, there should never be an occasion ever where the mayor of my town in official capacity is addressing a crowd in a language that I don't understand.
00:32:20.120
And there are other laws that we could pass, too.
00:32:21.620
We could pass a law saying that only native-born people can hold office.
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We have that law for the—obviously, that's the rule for the presidency.
00:32:34.300
And why shouldn't we apply it to congressmen, senators, mayors, governors?
00:32:40.020
Plenty of countries have these restrictions for most major political offices.
00:32:44.160
The Philippines, for example, I think has that.
00:32:52.840
Again, and if there's any law that would be supposedly unconstitutional, well, we can change the Constitution.
00:33:06.800
He was born in D.C. to Somali immigrant parents.
00:33:11.760
Is there a law we could pass that would prevent the Omar Fatehs of the world from holding office here?
00:33:18.820
Sure, we could ban people from certain countries from coming here in the first place.
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We're under no obligation to welcome whoever happens to come knocking on the door.
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And it's funny when people cite historical precedent as a justification for shipping, you know, Somalis here en masse.
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And they'll say, well, we're a nation of immigrants.
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Does anyone actually think that Thomas Jefferson had this in mind?
00:33:59.280
If Jefferson arrived here in a time machine and saw that rally in Minneapolis, does anyone think he would say, oh, yeah, great.
00:34:16.040
And this nation of immigrants thing, I mean, I've addressed it many times.
00:34:23.140
But just to emphasize the point again, we are not a nation of immigrants.
00:34:36.680
We're a nation of people who came here and built a country from scratch.
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But the immigrants who come here now are not doing that.
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Like, take, well, take Minnesota as an example.
00:34:48.680
Somalis are migrating to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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White Europeans also migrated to the place we now call Minnesota.
00:34:59.800
Well, the first European settlement in Minneapolis or in Minnesota was established in 1731.
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Minnesota, you know, was a wilderness back then.
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There were maybe about 10,000 or 15,000 Indians there spread out across 80,000 square miles.
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And those European settlers built a community from scratch, chopped down trees, built homes, farm, hunt, establish trade, defend their communities from Indians and bandits and all the rest of it.
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Somalis who come here now are not doing any of that.
00:35:42.760
They're instead taking advantage of what was built.
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So that's why we are not a nation of immigrants.
00:35:56.360
And there is a very clear distinction between those two categories of people.
00:36:00.060
All right, here's an article in the Daily Mail headline, Obama's obscene monument to his ego dramatically backfires as $850 million vanity project sparks outrage.
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Reading on, President Barack Obama's promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House.
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But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home.
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His $850 million presidential center in Chicago, due to open in April, has come under fire from residents, community leaders, and one-time supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent, and forcing families out.
00:36:44.520
Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she's a fan of Obama and believes in the project, but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents.
00:37:02.260
Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for.
00:37:06.460
This was no different, and we're living what is actually happening.
00:37:08.960
The city of Chicago should have done a community benefits agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn't.
00:37:14.520
So, people are complaining about this giant monument that Obama has built to himself.
00:37:24.760
Gentrification, you know, as if gentrification isn't obviously a good thing.
00:37:30.600
But generally, yeah, they're right to be annoyed.
00:37:33.200
Yet nobody, if you read the whole article, nobody hits on the worst thing about Obama's monument to himself, which is that the thing is an absolute monstrosity.
00:37:42.320
It's one of the ugliest buildings ever designed.
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We'll put some pictures of this thing up on the screen so you can see it.
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You know, it looks like a giant prison where you keep supervillains.
00:38:04.960
It looks like if you walk into this thing that, you know, Magneto will be in there in a glass box.
00:38:12.640
It looks like a prison where they keep Magneto.
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It looks like a picture of a building that an emotionally disturbed child would draw on lined paper.
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It's like a tower where an evil wizard would live.
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And in that way, it's the perfect monument to Obama.
00:38:42.320
Really does capture Obama's essence, you have to admit.
00:38:45.760
And it captures the essence of the ideological movement that he represents.
00:38:52.580
You know, everything starts to make more sense.
00:38:54.960
So much of what's happening in our culture kind of makes sense.
00:38:57.920
When you realize that these people, leftists, hate beauty.
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That's why they've gone out of the way to make everything ugly.
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Ugly buildings, ugly art, ugly music, ugly people.
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Why is leftism associated with copious facial piercings and ridiculously colored, you know, unnatural hair?
00:39:18.520
I mean, if you see a woman who's morbidly obese and has a septum piercing and green hair, you immediately know her political ideology.
00:39:34.960
You know, we talk about the blue hairs and the green hairs, and it's cliched at this point, but it's also true.
00:39:48.120
I mean, how could a hair color have a political party?
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How could a piercing signify your ideological alignment?
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You know, a woman who dyes her hair blonde, that doesn't necessarily tell you anything about her politics.
00:40:17.320
Like, by definition, it's just, it's not, humans don't have that color hair.
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Just like if I showed you Obama's presidential library and you didn't have any context at all, and I didn't tell you whose library it was, and I told you it was a presidential library for an American president of the past 50 years,
00:40:42.740
and that's all I told you, you would immediately guess that it must be a Democrat president.
00:40:47.460
And then you'd probably guess Obama, just by process of elimination, and he's the most left-wing of the Democrats.
00:40:58.020
And making hideous things on purpose, spending $100 million to make hideous things, is a political act, a left-wing political act, because leftism hates beauty.
00:41:10.060
I guess this is her podcast, or maybe someone else's, I don't know.
00:41:12.740
Anyway, she's talking about why she hates white people, so a change of pace for Joy Reid.
00:41:20.080
Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell, but they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian.
00:41:31.380
They can lie about the history to the children.
00:41:33.060
They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
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We black folk gave y'all country music, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll.
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They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king.
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So they have to stamp the king on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.
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So this is the mythology, and it is just pure mythology.
00:42:02.240
Race hustlers like Joy Reid have invented this kind of Wakanda mythology where black people invented everything and whites stole it.
00:42:13.560
This is a common misconception or more like misinformation, right?
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It's a deliberate lie that's told, which claims that white people pilfered every genre of music from black people.
00:42:27.000
Country music has origins in European folk music.
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European folk music, English, Irish, Scottish, was brought here by European settlers.
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And they found their way to the Appalachian region.
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And that's where country music, as we know today, was gestated.
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Lots of different genres and influences went into it.
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Yes, some black artists were instrumental in pioneering rock music, also white artists.
00:42:55.260
The majority of the most influential and iconic rock bands and rock stars of all time were white, you know, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, AOC, AOC, AOC, she's a real rock star, ACDC rather, Metallica, you know, so on and so on.
00:43:11.600
So if you were to make a list of the 100 greatest rock bands of all time, you know, there'd be probably three or four black artists on it.
00:43:19.560
Chuck Berry, you know, Jimi Hendrix, a couple others.
00:43:23.880
So the idea that rock music belongs to black people or was a black genre stolen by white people is just total gibberish.
00:43:32.400
And, you know, we don't need to rehash this again.
00:43:35.740
But in terms of other inventions, I mean, Joy Reid is talking about inventions in general, saying whites can't invent anything.
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Meanwhile, almost all the most important inventions of the past, say, 2000 years came from white people.
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Make a list of the top 50, top 100 inventions of all time by your standard, whatever that, you know, and look up who invented them.
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I mean, it'll be a white guy, a white man specifically, like 98% of the time, if not more.
00:44:09.740
Which is why every place that Europeans settled and colonized had new technology introduced to it.
00:44:17.660
They didn't discover new technology among the tribes they encountered.
00:44:25.320
Now, sure, Europeans discovered, say, you know, kayaks from the Inuit, surfboards, the Polynesians invented the surfboard, that sort of thing.
00:44:37.040
But those are interesting variations on old technology, not new technology itself.
00:44:44.040
Now, you might be asking, why does this matter?
00:44:47.280
I'm like, why do we have to keep a racial scorecard for inventions?
00:44:54.520
People like her are the ones who insist on rewriting history to claim that white people didn't invent or innovate anything, which could not be further from the truth.
00:45:03.060
And if not for people like her making this claim, if not for this claim being widely popularized and even taught in schools, then it wouldn't be necessary for people like me to point out the reality.
00:45:14.120
But they do make that claim, so I do have to point it out, and that's on them.
00:45:18.740
And going back to the music point, because it's true that black culture had a heavy influence on many modern musical genres, even country music, sure.
00:45:27.440
You know, it's not true that black people invented country music, but as I said, you can trace it back to European folk music.
00:45:35.120
You can trace it back, I mean, this stuff goes back hundreds of years to European cultures.
00:45:42.660
I mean, the banjo, for example, I think came from Africa, like West Africa.
00:45:46.540
African enslaved Africans in this country were the first to play, you know, the banjo.
00:45:52.380
Eventually, that sound was combined with Appalachian folk music, and that's all great.
00:45:56.180
Music is an example of cultures influencing each other to create, you know, in many cases, something beautiful.
00:46:07.400
And so Joy Reid could try to say that, look, music is a great example of the wonders of multiculturalism.
00:46:18.380
I would say that, I mean, music is one thing, but that doesn't.
00:46:22.380
And in fact, if anything, it's an example of assimilation when you've got different influences that assimilate into one melodious sound.
00:46:30.680
And the multicultural dystopia we live in now, there's no melody here.
00:46:40.520
We're not all assimilating into one song or one symphony.
00:46:44.240
It's a whole bunch of different people playing different instruments and different songs and different notes.
00:46:48.980
And it just sounds like chaos because that's what it is.
00:46:51.360
But anyway, that's not even the point she's trying to make.
00:46:58.920
She wants to pretend that white people never had music because really she wants to pretend that white people never had a culture.
00:47:05.180
And she knows that music is a big part of culture.
00:47:09.320
You know, if you're Joy Reid, it's very important to you that white people believe that they have no culture.
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And that there's no reason to be proud of, you know, being white, like there's not there's nothing to be proud of, which means that they can never have invented anything and they can't have music.
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So this is all part of an effort to deprive a global minority.
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White people are a global minority of of culture.
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And and instead replace it with, you know, a sense of nothingness and guilt and all of this, because that's what they want white people to feel.
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Well, ever since that DOJ employee threw a subway footlong at a federal officer, then pranced away in his shorts before being arrested, it's been hard to imagine how a Democrat could possibly cause a more embarrassing scene on the national stage.
00:50:20.580
To be fair, it's been a very difficult eight months for these people.
00:50:27.980
The President can actually complete a sentence.
00:50:33.440
But all the same, you might hope that their public meltdowns will become less severe over time instead of intensifying with each passing day.
00:50:39.620
You think that now that one federal employee has been fired for throwing a sandwich, committing assault with a deli weapon, as I saw when we made that joke on.
00:50:54.320
Anyway, but after that happens, every other Democrat with a government job would be on their best behavior, at least for a little while, you would hope.
00:51:02.100
But alas, recent events have proven that indeed things can get much, much more embarrassing for these people.
00:51:07.560
Yesterday, body camera footage was released showing the arrest of Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who works in the office of Rhode Island's Democrat Attorney General.
00:51:18.380
Flanagan was arrested along with a friend after the two women refused to leave a restaurant.
00:51:24.060
Now, this is one of the more entertaining body cams of the past year, so we're going to break it down like the Zapruder film.
00:51:30.320
And here's how the saga begins, with police arriving on scene at the restaurant.
00:52:02.420
Now, the woman is demanding that the police officers turn off their body cameras, and that
00:52:09.020
woman is Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan.
00:52:12.400
Now, the younger-looking woman, who also has an attitude, is named Veronica Hannon.
00:52:17.180
She reportedly identifies herself online as a champion of diversity in STEM.
00:52:23.600
Now, watching this tape so far, one can only guess why the Special Assistant Attorney General
00:52:28.400
would want the police officers to turn off their body cameras.
00:52:32.140
It's more than a little ironic, since leftists were the ones who demanded that police wear
00:52:35.320
body cameras all the time, but now that they've realized body cameras helped the police,
00:52:39.060
they've done a 180 on that whole idea, as we previously discussed.
00:52:42.060
In any event, the Special Assistant Attorney General is wrong on the law here.
00:52:46.260
I mean, this was pretty obvious, but just to be sure, I spent five seconds looking it
00:52:50.360
In Rhode Island, police officers are given the discretion to turn off their body cameras
00:52:53.680
upon request of a witness or victim in a very sensitive situation in a private place.
00:53:00.100
But this is a completely different scenario entirely.
00:53:03.440
In this case, the suspect is making the request on a public street.
00:53:07.300
And while I'm not a lawyer or even an assistant attorney general, it's safe to say that this
00:53:14.400
But apparently, this woman believes that if criminals just say the magic word, then the body
00:53:19.500
This is the kind of statement that might make you wonder how intelligent this woman is
00:53:23.080
or how she could possibly qualify to serve as an assistant attorney general.
00:53:26.640
But as the footage went on, she doubled down on her credential and the entertainment value
00:53:32.400
of the footage increases exponentially at the same time.
00:53:52.540
So you're trespassed, so we've got to leave now.
00:53:56.200
You haven't notified us that we're trespassing.
00:54:10.900
I understand you don't want to deal with it, but the protocol is...
00:54:13.900
And your protocol is if I ask you to turn off the body cam, you have to turn it off.
00:54:21.480
Well, that's f***ing lawyer stuff, so that's not true.
00:54:35.460
Now, this is one of the better exchanges that you'll see caught on police body cam.
00:54:42.920
She says, quote, if I ask you to turn off the body cam, you'll have to turn it off.
00:54:48.000
Well, that's BS lawyer stuff, so that's not true.
00:54:54.160
You can tell they weren't remotely prepared for this response.
00:54:56.320
They thought that talking to a cop in Rhode Island is a bit like talking to a stormtrooper in Star Wars.
00:55:00.920
They genuinely believe that they can just wave their hands and say, you know, these aren't the droids you're looking for.
00:55:05.460
And the cops would just say, well, you're right.
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We're turning off our body cameras immediately.
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But even in Rhode Island, as it turns out, this kind of trick doesn't work.
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And that leads us to the really good part of the footage where the officers are reminded again and again and again and again that this woman is an AG and therefore cannot be arrested.
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But first, we're treated to a gallant defense of the honor of these women, courtesy of Veronica's husband.
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Can you get your children out of your, like, I don't know why.
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What are you a probable class of detain me for?
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You're being detained because you're not leaving.
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You're putting me on handcuffs and you're merendezing me.
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In just case you lost count, by one estimate, there were 11.5 repetitions of the phrase,
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The last one counts for one half because of door slam.
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Easily the most satisfying door slam in the history of police body cams, which cuts her
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But just to be sure, and really to verify this figure, let's roll the tape one more time.
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If I'm being honest, I lost count again, but a total of 11.5 repetitions.
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Regardless, the really funny thing is, despite all the repetition here, it turns out she's
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Devon Flanagan, as we previously established, is really an assistant attorney general.
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Specifically, she worked for seven years in the appellate unit of the criminal division
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In other words, we have a pretty flagrant case of stolen valor on our hands here.
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It's a bit like saying you're the assistant regional manager when you're really assistant
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What she should have said, although it wouldn't roll off the tongue quite as well, is I'm an
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Of course, there's a good chance that if she said that, the officers would assume that
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she was choking and commenced the Heimlich maneuver.
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On the bright side, though, she would have been about 1% less humiliated than she is right
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But as it stands, Devon Flanagan has not simply outed herself as a drunk narcissist.
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She's also added herself as a liar on top of that.
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And the AAG's friends didn't fare much better, for the record.
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You know, it goes on like that for a few more minutes.
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I don't know why the husband stayed right there.
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I mean, he should have just left at that point.
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I'm not going to stand around and be a part of this.
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Eventually, they finally do get her in the police car, bringing a merciful end to the footage.
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The woman, in turn, was charged with several counts, including disorderly conduct, willful trespass, and resisting arrest.
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The AG, for her part, was hit with a trespass charge.
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Now, her lawyer is saying that she regrets the whole thing, as you'd expect.
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The AG's office in Rhode Island, meaning the actual office of the AG, says it's looking into it.
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Now, we have no idea how this will turn out, of course.
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In a state like Rhode Island, this kind of behavior might qualify Devon Flanagan for a promotion.
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But at the moment, things aren't looking good, as far as we can tell.
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In a month where a government employee was arrested and fired for throwing a sandwich at a cop,
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Devon Flanagan's night out has simply emerged, somehow, as the single most humiliating case of government misconduct.
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At least in the last two weeks, which is an impressive feat, on some level.
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But at the same time, it all but guarantees that this particular AAG will never become an actual AG,
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no matter how much she obviously thinks about that promotion.
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And that is why AAG Devon Flanagan, who managed to make the Subway sandwich attacker look good, is today.
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Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, President Trump's huge meeting with Ukraine and European allies goes swimmingly.
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Democrats remain bamboozled at Trump's diplomacy and Texas Republicans finally get their quorum for redistricting.