Speaker 1: Oh, I got hit in the head really bad.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thanks to Ice, Minneapolis is on fire, and
instead of working to lower the temperature, Trump is reaching
for the accelerant. As protests erup, intensions continued to rise.
After another another person was shot by a federal agent.
This morning, Trump said, of again reducing the temperature, threatened
to use the Insurrection Act. Now. I want to be
clear that law is meant for genuine rebellion, not Ice
attacking US citizens. But Trump uses the same playbook every time.
Nothing new here, blaming local leaders and treating American cities
like enemy territory. Trump's latest post shows that he'd rather
rule by force than govern by law. Let me show
you what he writes in it. He writes, if the
corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop
the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of Ice,
who are only trying to do their job, I will
institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me,
and quickly put an end to the travesty that is
taking place in that once great state. Thank you for
your attention to this matter, President DJT. I cannot understand
what this man is doing. Meanwhile, Trump also tried to
claim that crime numbers are at a record low. Let
me show you what he says here, a highly respected
judge declined to block ICE operations in the very politically
corrupt state of Minnesota. ICE will therefore be allowed to
continue its highly successful operation removing some of the worst,
most violent and vicious criminals anywhere in the world, many
of them murderers, from the state. The great patriots of
law enforcement will continue to make our country safe. Record
low crime numbers. I mean, I'm not even sure where
that this information is coming from. I'm not sure who's
providing it to him. According to Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey,
Minnesota had two two murders since the beginning of January
twenty twenty six two, one of which was done by
John Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole good
And last night, Trump also posted it pretty I mean,
a pretty ugly xenophobic rant about African food markets and
halal grocery stores. Let me show you what he writes.
Does anybody believe that in Minneapolis these are the food
stamp businesses. There's no food, there's no cleanliness, there's no service,
there's no, nothing except fraud. They get sent millions of
dollars of taxpayer money and laugh at how stupid the
Americans are. But not anymore. Oh no, these people should
be sent back to Somalia or any other country from
where they came. California, Illinois, New York and so many
other places are equally as bad. Hint, hint. It's all
a giant Democrat scam with protection from the fake news media.
But it will end as we make America great again.
Now I want to show you these photos are actually
of stores. The first one African Market, the second one
i'll grocery. This is a xenophobic post if anybody has
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this nonsense needs to come to an end. Now we
know that Trump doesn't care about the facts of the
situation happening on the ground in Minneapolis, but I do.
I really do. Here's a post from someone on the ground.
It says, I don't know what to say. Minnesotans are
reporting abandoned cars all over the place, at gas stations
with the nozzles still attached, on the sides of the roads,
in parking lots, doors open, abandoned, the driver taken. I mean,
at the bottom of the post, we aren't lying. I
don't think y'all understand that they are just detaining and
abducting anyone. They feel like they get bonuses just for
detaining people, so they just take people. They ram cars
and then take the drivers and passengers of those cars
and leave the cars on the roads, wrecked and empty
of their drivers. I mean, this is unfortunately what's happened.
Could you imagine this is like that television show Bounty Hunters,
where you are offered a monetary amount for each individual
that you detain and or deport. Now, I do want
to show you a few clips of the craziness that's
happening on the streets. Ice went after you can't you
can't make this stuff up. Ice went after a fourteen
year old boy. They later let him go. But the
question is why are they detaining miners in the first place.
Play the clip. I hope that you're noticing the posture
of these ICE agents. I mean, they think that they're
in Fallujah. They think that they're in some battleground area.
This is Minneapolis that we're talking about here, and they're
detaining a minor. Another reporter proclaimed that he was pressed
as an ICE agent threatened him with violence. Play that clips.
We are passed, we are pressed, we are pressed. I mean,
could you imagine this little pathetic man, This pathetic little
man who's sitting there, All of a sudden, he's got
some power. He's walking around with an irritant spray get back,
get back. Man is yelling were press. They have the
right to be there by law. Problem these ICE agents,
they don't respect the law. They're told not to respect
the law. I want to show you another video of
flash grenades and a protest scene that legitimately looks like Felujah.
It looks like war, but again it's Minneapolish. Lay the
clips up. If that's not making you sick to your stomach.
I don't know what it is, but I do want to
I want to point something out. Remember you heard during
that video a large bang of boom. You're wondering what
it was. Well, it was not a flash grenade, nor
was it one of these smoke irritant grenades. Oh no,
what this was was an Actually it looks like a
hand grenade. It literally looks like a hand grenade, all black.
You pull the pin and you throw it like that
idiot did when he was rolling it, like he thought
he was rolling his bowling ball. But what comes out
of it a little plastic bullets, little pellets, and they fly.
That's why you started hearing glass shatter because wherever it's
within like a thirty foot range, and you get hit
by these little pellets, they hurt like hell, they knock
you to the ground. Meanwhile, you still have Minneapolis Mayor
Jacob Fray, and thank God for this level headed mayor
saying that having two governmental agencies fighting against each other,
it's just an American play the clip.
Speaker 3: There's still a lot that we don't know at this time,
but what I can tell you for certain is that
this is not sustainable. This is an impossible situation that
our city is presently being put in. And at the
same time, we are trying to find a way forward
to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,
and we're in a position right now where we have
residents that are asking the very limited number of police
officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the
street to stand by their neighbors. We cannot be at
a place right now in America where we have two
governmental entities that are literally fighting one another. Why are
we put in this position. We're put in this position
because we have approximately six hundred police officers in Minneapolis,
far fewer that are able to work at any given time,
and there are approximately three thousand ICE agents in the area.
Three thousand.
Speaker 2: I mean they're overwhelmed. And Mayor Jacob Frey, he's kind
of lost in terms of what to do. Governor Tim
Walls Well, he continued his plea for legal support. Play
that clip.
Speaker 4: What's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports
simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and
disruption and trauma. The federal government is raining down upon
our communities. They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens,
and demanding to see their papers, and at grocery stores,
at bus stops, even at our schools, breaking windows, dragging
pregnant women down the street, just playing grabbing Minnesotans and
shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping, innocent people with no
warning and no due process. Let's be very very clear.
This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead,
it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of
Minnesota by our own federal government. This week, he went
online to promise that quote, the day of retribution and
reckoning is coming. That's a direct threat against the people
of this state who dared to vote against him three
times and who continue to stand up for freedom with
courage and empathy and profound grace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what else is there possibly to say?
Got to give Tim Wallas a lot of credit. There's
a guy who's been beaten down by this administration again
and again and again, and yet he still stands and
he still speaks truth to power. And if you don't
believe what Minnesota officials is saying, CNN's Harry Enten, well,
he actually goes through the numbers, play the clip.
Speaker 1: By saying that Americans at this point do not like ICE,
and that is very different from what we saw during
Trump's first term. Just take a look here, Ice is
net approval rating and Trump's first term ice, you know,
kind of lukewarm. You had them right there to net
approve rating of zero points. Look at where we are today.
We're talking about a negative seventeen point approval rating. That
is a seventeen point drop from where we were during
Trump's first term. Among independents, the number is even lower
in terms of the net approved rating. And why is
it that ICE is so unpopular at this point? Well,
take a look at our new CNN SSRs pull, and
I think this sort of gives the game away. Ice
enforcement is making US cities, let's safe. Look at this,
fifty one percent, fifty one percent of Americans say that
ICE enforcement is in cities is making those cities. Let's
say that includes fifty nine percent of Americans who live
in cities, compared to just thirty one percent who say
that in fact, ice enforcement is making US cities more safe.
So what we see here is Trump and ICE losing
this argument over ice going in the cities making them
more safe. Now, of course, the ICE discussion is part
of a larger argument, right, a larger discussion about immigration
enforcement in this country. And you know, when it comes
to Donald Trump, Remember he's run on immigration in all
three of his presidential bits. It's a big reason why
he got elected the first time around won that Republican nomination.
It was a strength for him earlier on during his
second term. Look at this, his net approparating according to
our CNN polling was at plus three points on the
positive side of the ledger. But look at where it
is now. It is way underwater at sixteen points on
the negative side of the equation. That is a nineteen
point drop in less than a year's time. Now.
Speaker 2: So look, let me be crystal clear. You take a
look at the numbers. He's underwater in this entire immigration
ice scenario, and he's underwater simply because it's not working.
Minnesota doesn't want him there, La didn't want him this,
UGLA didn't want him there. New York didn't want him there.
Nobody wants ice there, nobody wants ice in their neighborhood.
And only together, by staying united and strong can we
avoid this thing continuing going on for the next three years.
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