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more about this constitutional crisis, shall we?
Speaker 2: Every time?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll talk a little bit more about this slogan
that the Democrats are using. They have pivoted off of
the democracy over to constitutional crisis. Okay, so they have pivoted,
and it is very much on brand. I feel like
where Democrats will throw a particular demographic or a part
of their coalition or an issue right under a bus
metaphorically speaking, in order to argue for the cause dujure
the cause of the day. They need a particular narrative
for this moment right now, and so they just craft
a narrative. They rely on a compliant, if not complicit
media to advance that slogan that narrative, and it doesn't
matter if that new narrative flies in the face of
what they were saying up until a second ago.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter. They're never asked, Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: You've been screeching about the democracy for all this time,
and now when you have the peoples elected representative in
the form of the president to oversee the executive branch,
now you're arguing that him trying to do the thing
for which he was elected by the people in the democracy,
that now he's not allowed to touch anything. I mean
you're talking about he can't update websites, he can't have
his secretaries and his team implement policies and initiatives that
he wants to implement. And the people who are blocking
him from doing so are these low level judges that
are issuing temporary restraining orders that apply to the entire country.
And again I mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: The hiring, the creation and the hiring of these federal
district judges was to keep a lot of the stuff
all of the plate of the US Supreme Court. They're
supposed to handle a lot of these matters at the
lower levels, and then if they get it wrong, you
can appeal, and then if the appeals courts gets it wrong,
then you can appeal up to the US Supreme Court
because they don't have the time to handle every single case.
So I guess we could get rid of all of
those federal district court love right. We could get rid
of all the judges, get rid of all the federal
district courts, and throw it all to the US Supreme
Court and see how they like working non stop every
single day of the year instead of doing their you know,
their summer sessions or fall sessions or.
Speaker 2: Whatever they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about how insane it is to argue
that a permanent bureaucracy.
Speaker 2: In DC.
Speaker 1: Is immune from any oversight by their boss. That's what
their argument is. That the boss can't direct any of
these agencies to do anything, even though Article two of
the Constitution lays out that exact thing for him.
Speaker 2: He is the executive.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get to write law, he carries it out,
and so he sets those priorities right within the law
that Congress has passed. And again, part of this is
also that Congress has abdicated a lot of its responsibility
because they found it to be easier to win reelection
and raise money. If they don't actually have to pass laws,
they'll just turn all of it over to the administrative state.
And by the way, this is something that the left
has been pushing for my entire life. The left wants
more and more power in the administrative branch, in the
executive branch, and so they have empowered the president to
do things. They have empowered the administrative state through the
chev deference, like all of that stuff, the Supreme Court ruling.
The left has been pushing in that direction my entire life.
And now you've got somebody in there who's saying, Okay,
I'm going to use these powers and I'm going to
now go a different direction.
Speaker 2: And oh no, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they have built this fourth branch for themselves.
And when you look at the voting data, it's quite
clear that that is in fact what they did. Because
the people who work for the federal government and the
people who live in the DC area.
Speaker 2: Are overwhelmingly democrat.
Speaker 1: They donate ninety plus percent to Democrats, and so they
are advancing, they are marching through the institution, if you will,
in the executive branch. And so now we have come
to this place where after empowering the executive branch to
do all of this stuff, now we're not allowed to
check it, We're not allowed to rein it in, we're
never allowed to cut it back, we're never allowed to
make any changes.
Speaker 2: That is not a democrase.
Speaker 1: If there has in fact been a constitutional crisis, it's
because the left has put us here, and these judges
are now trying to stop Trump. By the way, I
do have in the stack of stuff. Mm hmmmm, where
to go about this? One of these judges, Oh, it's
in where to go?
Speaker 2: One of the judges.
Speaker 1: Has a history that includes making anti Trump statements.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's just.
Speaker 1: Coincidental that he would rule against Donald Trump on a
matter like this. I'll find it during the break. There's
too much show prep. There's too much I have too
much stuff. Donald Trump needs to slow down. Okay, just
just for like a day so I can so I
can clear out some of the some of the stuff.
So you've got you got the Blaze dot com and
they go over six sorry, five times that democrats ignored
the courts. Because this is what you're hearing from the
left and the media. But I repeat myself that this
is what's going to cause the crisis, is you know,
Trump is being told by judges don't do some stuff,
and he's going to ignore the courts.
Speaker 2: He better not ignore the courts.
Speaker 1: What did Donald Trump say in the Oval office. We
played the SoundBite the other day with Elon Musk. He said,
if the courts, uh, you know, rule against this, he says,
of course, will will appeal.
Speaker 2: We'll comply with the courts.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I was trying to think back
to an example of Trump ignoring the courts, whether it's
in his you know, all of the litigation that came
against him, right the charges.
Speaker 2: And all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He's always complied with the courts as far as I
can remember. If the sports rule he can't do something,
he doesn't do it. So once again, this derangement, this fear,
this projection that he's going to do what you're doing
and what you have done. Because in the five examples
by Candae Hathaway at the Blaze dot com, we'd ever
heard anything about a constitutional crisis when Joe Biden and
Barack Obama were doing some of the stuff in lower
courts and governors and stuff. Democrats do this stuff all
the time, they celebrate it. Right. The prime example is
Joe Biden and the student loan scheme. He was told
the Trump administration said it to, the Obama administration said
it to You had constitutional lawyers, everybody was in agreement, you.
Speaker 2: Cannot do this.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden said himself that he could not do this,
and then he turned around and did it. And then
the Supreme Court said you can't do it. And then
he said I'm going to do it anyway, and no
one cared. On the left, we cared, We talked about it,
constitutional crisis. You're ignoring the courts. What the hell are
you doing? And then he went out and bragged about it,
bragged about it. The court told me I couldn't do
this thing, and people on the right were outraged, nearry
a peep from the left. But now I'm supposed to
believe that a president directing his administration and the agencies
that fall under his power constitutional power. Now I'm supposed
to believe that this is the crisis because you're afraid
that a court, a lower court that made some ruling,
not the Supreme Court yet, but a lower district court
made a ruling that is not based in law, that
will by all accounts I've seen be overturned pretty quickly
on the rocket docket. They're saying it's going to go
very quickly up to the Supreme Court. But now I'm
supposed to believe this is a crisis because you're afraid
Donald Trump is going to do exactly what Joe Biden did.
It's all projection with these people. It's crazy, it's insanity.
It is insanity. It's gaslighting to a degree I have
never seen like doing something. You're watching them do it
and they're like, I'm not doing this. You cannot have
rational discourse with people like this. I don't think all right,
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the Blaze dot com. Democratic politicians and the corporate media
were in lockstep this week parroting the claim that the
Trump administration's actions amount to a constitutional.
Speaker 2: Crisis. All right, However, neither the Democrat.
Speaker 1: Party nor its media outes expressed such concerns in the
past when left wing politicians ignored and even in some
cases blatantly defied court orders.
Speaker 2: For example, I.
Speaker 1: Mentioned that Joe Biden student loan deal, but before that
it was Obama and DAKA. Remember he said he couldn't
do it, and then he did it, and nobody said
this was a constitutional crisis. In June of twenty twenty three,
the Supreme Court struck down former President Joe biden sweeping
federal student loan quote forgiveness plan. The court declared it
to be unconstitutional. Two reports out of the Government Accountability
Office found that Biden's student loan cancelation program automatically approved
borrowers without proper vetting, and it failed to implement fraud
protection safeguards as well. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling and
despite the GAO's findings, the Biden administration decided to move
forward with its pledge to cancel federal student loan debt.
That was mid twenty three, and in February of twenty four,
Biden boasted about his attempts to circumvent the Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 2: He said, the Supreme Court bloked virgin stame h nours.
Speaker 1: We're going to pursue alternative paths for studentary relief for
as many borrowers as possible. So he's bragging that he's
not going to follow the highest court in the land.
Or how about the CDC. In twenty twenty, Congress passed
the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, or the
CARES Act, which included a one hundred and twenty day
moratorium on eviction filings, as well as other protections for
tenants in certain rental properties with federal assistance or federally
related financing. When Congress chose not to extend that moratorium
as it was laid out in the law, the Biden
administration CDC tried to step in and ordered a halt
on evictions that broadly included all residential properties in the
country and imposed criminal penalties for those who violated the order.
This created severe hardship for landlords and.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I don't care about it. I hate landlords.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, what if the landlord is like an eighty
year old widow with one rental property that was her
you know, her mom's house that they have kept in
their family, and that's her source of income in her
old age. It's the only revenue she gets except for
Social Security, which barely pays anything. So this is her
revenue stream. And I got calls from people, I got
emails from people when all of this stuff was going on.
They were like, this is going to bankrupt me because
I can't stop paying taxes. I have to pay taxes
on this property. I have no income.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court considered the CDC order and ultimately allowed
it to stand, but only because it was going to
be expiring in a couple of weeks. Because remember, they
kept extending it thirty days, sixty days, ninety They kept
pushing it back and pushing it back. And why the
time it finally got to the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh.
Justice Kavanaugh said, I agree with the district Court and
the applicants that the CDC exceeded its statutory authority, But
he said, there's really no point in us stepping in
right now because it's going to be expiring in like
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Biden.
Speaker 1: CDC then ignored the Court's opinion, issuing another order in
August of twenty one, attempting to extend the expired eviction
moratorium to residential properties in communities with substantial and high
levels of COVID nineteen transmission. However, that order finally was
blocked again by the US Supreme Court, saying that the
CDC has exceeded now its authority, but that wasn't a crisis,
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Board of Commissioners chairwoman Diane Ellis Marzaglia Masseglia, Marsiglia something anyway,
she's a Democrat, she boasted that she was planning to
count illegal ballots in the Pennsylvania Senate race.
Speaker 2: Remember that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was incumbent Bob Casey versus Dave McCormick back
in December or uh November rather in the last election cycle,
and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that undated and misdated
mail in ballots could not be counted, which seems kind
of obvious.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: It seems like this would be a bit of common
sense and easily applied law. Like the law says you
got to send your ballot in by a certain date,
and if there's not a date on the mail in ballot,
then you don't know when it was mailed in, and
so therefore you shouldn't accept it. And so the court said,
you could not accept it if it's undated, misdated, whatever,
And so the Bucks County Board of Commissioner's chair Diane
Elis Marseglia, stated that she planned to count the ballots
despite the court's order. She said, people violate laws anytime
they want. So for me, if I violate this law,
it's because I want a court to pay attention. There's
nothing more important than counting votes. Out ag ensues. The
State Supreme Court then orders a second time that no,
you cannot count those ballots. It's illegal. By the way,
she is still on the board. She was elected in
two thousand and seven, and she remains on that board.
And then there's the sanctuary city mayors. Right Donald Trump's
first administration, he issues an executive order in January twenty
seventeen that sought to prevent sanctuary jurisdictions from thwarteen federal
immigration enforcement measures, and as part of Trump's executive action,
he aimed to pull federal funding from jurisdictions that failed
to comply with immigration laws. Sanctuary cities were ordered to
comply with with the law eight USC. Thirteen seventy three.
Regardless cities like Chicago, New York City and many others
continue to shield illegal aliens from federal immigration agents. Now,
in case you hadn't heard Pam Bondy, our new attorney general,
she has already announced investigations, criminal investigations into the city
of Chicago. I think the mayor as well. And what
two days ago, I want to say, she made the
announcement that they're going after.
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 1: Now in the state of New York, Governor Hulkel and
Letitia James, as they should, and I might recommend please
take a look at our own Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary
not my fault McFadden, who just this week had another
Wizen match.
Speaker 2: With Ice.
Speaker 1: Oh, says, I don't have to call it, just says
I have to notify, and so we notified, and so
we didn't call them, and so we released a violent
defender back out onto the streets because ICE had plenty
of time to go. I have the press release here, Yeah,
here it is. They sent out this statement. I'll probably
go in depth on this next week, but he says,
I want to address recent reports regarding US Immigration and
Customs enforcement arrests that are incorrect and misleading to our
local media. I ured you to report fairly and accurately.
I am not bending the rules.
Speaker 2: Bull.
Speaker 1: You absolutely are as you have done at every step
since your election. You are bending the rules. I am
not bending the rules or preventing ICE officers from doing
their job. I am simply following the law. Specifically, I
adhere to North Carolina General Statute one sixty two sixty
two as revised in House Bill ten. Yet the media
continues to misrepresent my role as sheriff to the public.
This is the case of Jose Napoleon Serrano. They say
they followed the law by holding him for forty eight
hours per a court order. Serrano was arrested by CMPD
January twelfth at five point thirty in the morning. Deputies
determined that he was a Honduras national during the intake process.
About half an hour later, Sheriff's office notified ICE, with
no response the entire day. How did you notify ICE, Sheriff?
Not my fault, how did you notify ICE? A day later,
Sheriff's office receives the ICE detainer administrative warrant. A forty
eight hour hold was signed and issued by a state magistrate.
Then forty eight hours later, the court order on mister
Serrana was lifted, but he remained in custody at the
Sheriff's Office Detention Center on his initial state charges with
a five thousand dollars secured bond, and then another two
days later, on January seventeenth, Serrano's five thousand dollars bond
was posted. A Mecklinberg County magistrate then issued a signed
court order for his release from custody.
Speaker 2: So he was held for five days with no Ice movement.
Speaker 1: Not true, Not true, because Ice sent you a detainer
administrative warrant, which remember McFadden had previously refused to adhere to.
He kept using these this weaseley language of it's got
to be from a court order, got to have a
court and he was alway and the carve out there
was an administrative warrant. So his Gary McFadden has forced
the State of North Carolina to have to try to
write this law so tightly because of him. That's what
this is about. And so now he has found another loophole.
I didn't have to call them, right, is that what
he's that's the argument now I notified them like what
via email? And so he's like not my fault. There's
not my fault. ICE's fault. See, it's never Gary McFadden's fault.
This guy. I swear this guy he's unfit for the office.
The fact that his own party still protects him and
refuses to remove this guy or investigate him in any
way is it's a stain on the local Democrat party,
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release that Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden sent out,
goes on to say, as laid out above, Mecklenburg County
Sheriff's office received zero correspondence from ICE after ICE sent
the detainer on January thirteenth. ICE was aware of mister
Serrano's status between January twelfth through the seventeenth. As they
are privy to our various tracking systems, ICE is more
than welcome to pick up the phone. We will always
remain transparent about a person's release. But nowhere in House
Bill ten does it mandate local sheriffs notify ICE of
an individual's release. So you have a guy who has
been deported multiple times in your jail, ICE says, hey,
hold him, and you don't think to alert ICE. Hey,
this guy just he's fixing to bail out. You don't
think that's important to let ICE know?
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't tell me. I had to let them know.
That's what he's saying.
Speaker 1: ICE is also aware that mister Serrano had been deported
twice before. If they believed he posed a threat to
public safety. I questioned why ICE didn't charge him with
federal offenses in proper entry re entry instead of putting
the burden on local sheriffs. This is why I continue
to emphasize the importance of open discussions with ICE. No, no, no,
you're not for open discussions with ICE. This is a
lie as well, right, stop gaslighting the public. Okay, stop
the gas lighting. You are not interested in open discussions.
If you were, you would have told them. You would
have said, hey, I know you guys, put a hold
on this guy. He's been busted twice for coming into
the country illegally and then getting deported then coming back in.
You put a hold on him. Magistrates set a bond.
He's fixing a bond out, so you might want to
come get him soon because he's about to get bonded out.
But he didn't do that. The sheriff's office didn't do that.
So no, you're not in open discussions with ICE. And
then here's the tell. Right here, he says he he
emphasizes the importance of open discussions with ICE because simply
deporting individuals is not an effective solution and does not
make our communities safer. You gave away the game, there, Sheriff.
You gave away the game. We know you are an
open borders guy. You don't even want to deport people
who you are in the country illegally. We all understand
that you ran your campaigns on this. You made these
promises to your Moonbat brigade base in order to win
the primaries.
Speaker 2: We all know this.
Speaker 1: Stop gaslighting us and pretending that I'm for open discussion.
No you're not, because ICE is deporting people and you
don't like it. You don't want ICE to deport people.
That is clear. You say it right here in your
stupid statement. Simply deporting individuals is not an effective solution.
I disagree when you remove somebody. For example, if you
were to remove a serial killer from the community and
put them in prison for the rest of their life,
that does solve the problem of that serial killer killing
anybody else in the community. See how that works. By
the way, the border crossings, have you seen these numbers,
they're down ninety percent. Enforcement works. I am astounded that
I need to actually say this to the chief law
enforcement officer of the county.
Speaker 2: This guy was a homicide detective. Why bother?
Speaker 1: Seriously, why are you trying to Why did you try
for all those years as a homicide detective? Why did
you try to solve the homicides to like you could
just catch the person, I guess and say, now, don't
do that again, because it doesn't Incarcerating them wouldn't solve
the problem, you know, just asinine, he says. I am
the sheriff, and my priority is serving and protecting my
community while always upholding the law. No, you're not actually
protecting the community because you know who gets victimized by
illegal alien criminals, the immigrant community. They are most preyed
upon because of their fear of getting deported, because of
their fear of law enforcement, which Democrats have done a
heck of a job, by the way, fomenting because it
benefited them politically as it has. Sheriff Gary, not my fault, mcfath.
All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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