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The Trump tornado heads to Davos; More Minneapolis Fallout; Virginia follows the Gavin Playbook
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President Trump is in Davos this morning. We're gonna talk about what he's doing there. We're going to talk about more fallout for Don Lemon as he led a protest into a church. Lastly, we're gonna look a little bit deeper at what's going on in Virginia and what it might mean for Democrats going into the midterms. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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This morning, President Trump is in Davos where he's expected to meet with world leaders on a range of topics, from his continued crusade to take Greenland, Russia and Ukraine and a wide range of other priorities. On Monday night and Tuesday morning, he went on a spree of tweets and truth social posts about his feelings about foreign leaders around the world, from Emmanuel Macron in France to his feelings about the Nobel Peace Prize and the fact that he has not received it. We're going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second. But first, President Trump held a press conference yesterday to mark the one year anniversary of his inauguration.
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What we've done with with growth is incredible. We created super high economic growth and America is booming. It's booming. There are thousands of businesses right now that are being built.
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As we talked about yesterday over the weekend, there were several polls that marking that one year anniversary, highlighting that right now voters generally trust Republicans more than Democrats on a wide range of issues. But to me, there were two things that stuck out just a little bit in the Wall Street Journal poll. On who you trust more to look out for middle class families. Democrats have a three point advantage. On who you trust more to care about people like you. Democrats have also a three point advantage. What that tells me is that while President Trump has had a number of major victories like those he's highlighted yesterday, the not all of them got the attention they deserve because there's so many other things going on, which is a part of the Trump experience. But at the same time, that polling also shows us that there's an appetite even among President Trump's supporters to get him to focus a little bit more at home and the issues that are going on here. Those polls ask people specifically how they feel about President Trump's discussion on Greenland and whether America should take it. It's not popular. There's not a lot of support for America playing a more active role in taking Greenland, even if, as Scott Bessen argued in Davos, American presidents have wanted to take control of it for a long time. One challenge is nobody can articulate what we need to get from Greenland and from Denmark, overseeing Greenland, that we're not able to get under the arrangement that we have right now. And as President Trump talks about the Nobel Peace Prize, one thing that he needs to remember is the biggest challenge to his legacy is going to be if Democrats win in the midterms, take back power and take the White House and are able to cancel out everything that he has done. Because we know they already are talking, talking about how they're going to do that. For example, here's Chuck Schumer saying what he wants to do about DOGE cuts.
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If you look at the budget, actually we're working on right now, and we'll have the T HUD budget, you know, transportation and HUD budget. We restore most of the cuts and even go higher than previous years on many of the programs that DOGE slashed.
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Here's Pete Buttigieg on what he wants to do to the Supreme Court. So I think it's not so radical to suggest a different makeup of the Supreme Court. Here's new Democrat darling Zoran Mamdame about what he wants to do about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ice. You know, I am in support of abolishing ice. So right there you have they want to blow up the Supreme Court. They want to restore the DOGE cuts, which means the fraud faucet is coming right back on. And they're also going to get rid of the immigration enforcement and all the progress that President Trump has made and reopen the border. So if President Trump is genuinely concerned about his legacy, the place to start is refund, focusing on his agenda back at home and how it helps the American people and what he's doing about affordability. Back to Minnesota. One thing that we highlighted that I wanted to just reiterate a little bit, is the danger that we're seeing rising in Minneapolis after Tim Waltz called for vigilante confrontations from protesters with ice. We talked yesterday a little bit about some of those episodes that people are seeing out in the street. First, protesters mistaking a bunch of tech workers for ICE agents. So clear.
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Oh, my God.
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What we we do custom apps for a whole bunch of companies around Minnesota and the country. You hear the horns, you see the whistles. One ICE agent told a group of protesters exactly who they were helping with these kind of tactics.
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That vehicle right there is honking and impeding our Investigations while we're trying to arrest a child sex offender. That's who you guys are protecting.
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But the most shocking episode that we've seen yet of this is one that I believe is going to change the tide of how people are viewing this entire debate in Minneapolis when former CNN anchor Don Lemon led a group of lunatics to disrupt a church service. First, let's look at one of those lunatics who went in with Don Lemon's own video.
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You drink your coffee, you got your jewelry, you have your nice clothes, but what do you do? What do you do to stand for your Somali and Latino communities? All these comfortable white people who are living lavish, comfortable lives while children are dragged into concentration camps? You're living real life, nice lives with your lattes, doing absolutely nothing for your Latino and Somali brothers and sisters. Out now. You're all living real comfortable, aren't you? Shame on you. Do something. Stand with the Somalis. Stand with the Latinos. Quit ignoring this injustice.
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What those clips highlight is Don Lemon led in a group of psychopaths like this person not only to disrupt and leave a message, but to shut it down. They chanted for people to get out of the church. They got in their faces. These are young girls trying to attend church to a worship service they have a constitutionally protected right to be at. And they're being shouted down and chased out as he yells at them about what they're doing for their Somali brothers and sisters. First off, this is not good PR for the Somali brothers and sisters. But. But this only gets worse. And Don Lemon is also digging in much worse here, as he made clear in a podcast exactly what his motivations were.
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People who are, you know, in religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a white supremacy.
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The DOJ has already made clear they take this very seriously and are looking into it. This is going to get the highest attention from the Department of Justice because there is no more sacred right in our Constitution than the right to assemble and pray to God. And there are federal laws that protect that right. One thing that Don Lemon has argued in some of the interviews that he's done about this is that the First Amendment right of the protesters somehow superseded the right to worship of the church attendees, which is insane. But Keith Ellison said a similar thing.
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I say this is First Amendment activity.
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So there are numerous federal laws that are already being discussed here. The Face act, which protects the right to worship without Protesters shutting it down, the KKK act. There are other laws that have been discussed and come up here. But if you are a normal Minnesotan who's just trying to go to church and you have people come into it and try and shut it down and scream in your face when you have no involvement in the political discussion whatsoever, then you look out and you see the the police don't come for 45 minutes after this has begun. Then you see that the chief law enforcement officer for the state corrupt Keith Ellison is saying, oh, this is totally fine. It's protected activity, perfectly legal. How do you feel? All eyes are on Tim Waltz, Jacob Fry and others to see if they do anything to turn down the temperature from the monster that they created. So as we talk about those resources that are going into the resistance we're seeing from the left of Minnesota, you'll notice again, these are not some ragtag operations that people just doing their best. There are actual dark money forces tied to government that are involved here. First from the Daily Wire, Minneapolis prosecutors top aide was part of the anti ICE protest at church. So as you see this video of people saying who shut this down? We shut this down. Talking about a constitutionally protected church service. Take note of this. If Minnesota churchgoers expected local prosecutors to protect them after anti ICE disruptors halted a worship service on Sunday, they might want to think again. A top staffer for Hennepin County's Soros backed prosecutor was among the protesters. Jamal Lundy works as an intergovernmental affairs coordinator for Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, is married to St. Paul City Councilmember Anika Bowie and is running for a seat in the state legislature as a Democrat, according to his campaign website. That is from Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire. So again, if you thought that the government might be there to help protect constitutional rights in the state, that think again. But it doesn't end there. You may have seen a group of quote unquote progressive pastors who have tried to hold a sit in in a Target store to try and demand Target and other corporations take a more politically active position against the Trump administration. But as you see this note, this is not some organic act of faith. This again is a dark money connected operation. I point you first to the group Isaiah from local news. Clergy group Isaiah demands ICE seize operations in Minnesota after fatal shootings. So while media has painted this as a group of do good pastors that have gotten here to say from a perspective of religion, the companies need to do more to stop ICE when In fact, they're actually a politically aligned nonprofit. Isaiah opposes the use of law enforcement to deter crime, advocates for the decreased incarceration of of criminals, and works against the enforcement of immigration laws. The foundation uses religious coalitions to advance left of center activism and helps set up local activist groups which then hide their connection to the foundation, allowing it to be invisible in order to make its campaigns appear to be grassroots led. Appear to be grassroots led is the key operative phrase there. These are being portrayed as grassroots faith leaders getting together, when in fact this is a dark money group. But the other dark money group involved in these target protests that's aligned with Isaiah is another one, Race Forward. One of the voices quoted in this story about the pastors protest is a woman named Janae Bates who works with a group called Race Forward. Since 2017, Race Forward has received 2,775,000 from the Open Society Foundations, the grant making organizations funded primarily by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. You have a left wing group that organizes pastors to make it look like grassroots and and you have another race based group funded by George Soros that does the job of activism, again intended to look like grassroots mobilization here. So when you see these protests, it's so important to remember that this is not just a group of do gooders who all agree on something. This is a political operation led and funded by left wing dark money. So yesterday we talked a little bit about the inauguration of Abigail Spamberger to be the next governor of Virginia and the radical turn she's already taken with her agenda. But before we get to that, for a lighthearted moment, we're not a fashion podcast, but we did want to do a little who Wore It Best based on her inauguration outfit. First, Abigail Spanberger or the White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia. Abigail Spamberger or Emma Frost from X Men. Abigail Spamberger or President Coyne from the Hunger Games? Abigail Spamberger or Cruella de Villa. And then my personal favorite, Abigail Spamberger or Lucius Malfoy before Labor Day. Back to her agenda though. Yesterday we talked a little bit about how her and Virginia Democrats are proposing new taxes on virtually every kind of small business. One of the ones that was really strange to me is they're proposing banning gas powered leaf blowers while also proposing new taxes on electric landscaping tools. And it doesn't stop there. Democrats in Virginia introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies. It's hard to imagine why Democrats would want to do this, but we have seen from Northern Virginia for the last several years a trend from progressive prosecutors who are doing everything they can to let violent criminals, including pedophiles and sex perverts, back on the street. So for them to be talking about lowering these penalties is incredibly troubling for all Virginia residents. But it fits this larger theme of Abigail Spamberger trying to make Virginia into California or in another case, Minnesota, based on what they're trying to do with sanctuary laws. That's one thing that we talked about yesterday. One of the biggest challenges of the sanctuary policies that we're seeing play out in Minnesota, that we will now see play out in Virginia, now that she has an executive order to prevent ICE from working with law enforcement, is a rise in what they call at large arrests, where ICE is forced to go out and find and arrest people in public instead of simply taking them from jails or taking them from local law enforcement who they're cooperating with after arresting them. That's no longer gonna happen in Virginia. The New York Times had a piece highlighting how this is playing out in states that have these sanctuary policies. They were most common in states like California, Illinois, and New York, where local governments have passed laws blocking local jails and prisons from transferring people to ICE custody. Now, it's very difficult to imagine why you would want to block ICE from being able to work with local law enforcement. If your local law enforcement arrests a pedophile who happens to have a deportation order, what's motivating you from keeping ICE from removing that person from the country? Why are you fighting to keep them there? I hope Abigail Spamberger will find an opportunity to explain it to us. But that's exactly what we're seeing play out in Minnesota right now for you can't make it up segment today, we wanted to talk just a tiny bit about the issue that I believe will somehow continue to dog Democrats through the midterms and potentially into the presidential election of 2028. First, last week, the Supreme Court heard a case on protecting women's sports and the issue of some states trying to ban men from playing in women's sports and Democrats trying to stop them from doing that. After that, there was a viral exchange in the Senate between Senator Josh Hawley and a left wing activist about that issue.
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Can men get pregnant again?
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The reason I paused there is I'm not really sure what the goal of the question is.
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The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?
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As this has come back up, Axios reached out to 20 different Democrats who have been in the conversation to run for president in 2028, and they did not get very good answers. Only three were willing to respond at all. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, J.B. pritzker, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, California Rep. Ro Khanna, and California governor Gavin Newsom were among those declining to comment or not responding. And last week we talked about the fact that a number of Democrat Senate candidates also have not figured out how to deal with this issue, even though it largely defined the 2024 election. So having Kamala Harris's name at the beginning of that list of people who still can't talk about this and can't figure out how to basically just say men should play in men's sports and women should play in women's sports is incredibly telling. And this one is not going away anytime soon. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us here on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave a review, tell your friends and we will see you tomorrow.