SMACKDOWN WITH DARRELL SCOTT SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2025

Summary

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Real America’s Voice – Smackdown with Darrell Scott

Episode Summary: September 7th, 2025

Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of "Smackdown with Darrell Scott" (aired September 8, 2025) delivers a raw, critical, and humorous rundown of the most viral political stories of the week, with a strong focus on dispelling rumors about President Trump’s alleged death, analyzing his latest public appearances, tackling reactions from media and detractors, and lambasting Democratic leaders—particularly in the context of crime-ridden Chicago. Host Darrell Scott, with co-host James Davis, dissects the political landscape, the media’s narratives, and American urban policy through the lens of staunch Trump support and cultural commentary flavored with satire, bravado, and candid street talk.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Trump "Death" Hoax and Media Frenzy

• Darrell and James open with mockery and outrage at the viral rumor claiming President Trump died over Labor Day weekend.
  • Scott describes receiving calls about the rumor, recounts online hysteria, and pokes fun at Democrats’ “giddy” reaction. (03:36)
• They highlight Trump's swift return with a marathon cabinet meeting to dispel the rumors.
  • “If Trump was laying on his deathbed... he still ain’t resigning.” — Darrell Scott (04:56)
  • “He came back...with a vengeance... a 3 hour and 17 minute cabinet meeting.” — Darrell Scott (07:07)
• The episode critiques a perceived double standard in how Trump and Biden’s media absences are treated.
  • “I ain’t seen this last president for months at a time...But one little weekend, [Trump] away from the cameras and he's dead.” — James Davis (04:47)

2. Foreign Policy Power Play: The Polish President Visit

• Trump’s hosting of Poland’s president (termed the "Polish Trump") is discussed as indicative of strong diplomacy, “alpha” leadership, and mutual respect.
  • Darrell jokes about the "handshake contest" with over/under dynamics being a display of alpha status (09:05)
  • “They had the strong handshake contest...whoever’s over is the alpha.” — Darrell Scott (09:13)
• Discussion of U.S.-Poland relations includes a tribute flyover honoring a late Polish pilot, which Scott calls a masterstroke of international camaraderie.

3. The Venezuelan Drug Boat Incident

• Trump’s reportedly authorized attack on a Venezuelan drug trafficking boat is recounted with bravado:
  • “Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, we dropped a bomb right on their heads, the best you’ve ever seen.” — Darrell Scott (19:45)
  • Davis emphasizes the lack of due process critiques and lambasts Democrats for being upset about the destruction of a boat carrying “enough drugs to wipe out half the population.” (19:30, 21:05)
• Personal testimony relates the fentanyl crisis to listeners:
  • “I have a person… at our church that they literally buried their daughter last year from a fentanyl overdose.” — James Davis (21:05)

4. Media Critique & Trump’s Press Strategy

• The team ridicules viral internet content, like a faked video of someone throwing a bag out of the White House.
  • Trump directly debunks the scenario, noting White House windows are sealed and bulletproof. (22:03)
• Scott and Davis engage in running commentary about “dumb questions” and the quality of journalism.
  • “They don't even put any IQ into these lies...” — James Davis (22:48)
• A reporter's critical question on Trump’s Russia policy receives a “smackdown” on air.
  • "How do you know there’s no action?...get yourself a new job." — Trump, relayed by Darrell Scott (24:02, 24:37)

5. Chicago Crime Crisis & Federal Intervention

• Scott and Davis return to the persistent violence in Chicago, invoking Trump's 2017 comments and rumored new plans to deploy federal troops/National Guard.
  • "I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing." — Trump (33:26)
• Real-life testimonials and satirical sketches highlight the severity of street violence and the exasperation of Chicagoans.
  • “I'm going back home to Africa… it's safer there than it is in Chicago.” — Chicago resident, relayed by Scott (34:34)
  • Candid street interviews and sketches are employed throughout to emphasize the episode’s themes.
• The hosts ridicule Democratic leadership (notably Mayor Brandon Johnson and former Mayor Lori Lightfoot), blaming their policies for perpetuating chaos.
  • “Blaming the deaths on guns is like blaming death on cars when there are car accidents. Guns don't kill people. People kill people.” — Darrell Scott (35:46)
• The hosts argue that opposition to Trump's intervention is rooted in partisanship, not public safety:
  • “If [Obama] was saying we need to go... get the streets together, they would welcome it... But because it’s Trump, they’re trying to make it a racial thing.” — James Davis (39:44)
• On Obama’s silence: “He quiet as a church mouse... ain’t no money in it for him.” — Darrell Scott (40:12)

6. Lampooning and Listener Engagement

• Throughout, the show features comedic sketches riffing on the danger of Chicago streets, even poking gentle fun at black community vernacular and survival strategies.
  • “You gotta put your dog on. Like, I'm from here, but...I ain't gonna let you get me.” — James Davis (43:41)
  • “They can smell some femininity...You better let them smell some testosterone.” — Darrell Scott (44:15)
• The “Smackdown of the Week” segment targets black Democratic leaders, especially Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson (“BJ”) and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook:
  • "We smack you down...for lying. Gone and walk off before you get prosecuted even more." — Darrell Scott (58:17)
  • Candid community comments, skepticism toward DEI policies, and calls for audits are presented (52:22 onward).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Trump death hoax:
  “If Trump was laying on his deathbed, hooked up to IVs... he still ain’t resigning.” — Darrell Scott (04:56)

• On the viral memes:
  “The Dems were happy about it. They were even giddy, man... they had all these memes, they had all these posts.” — Darrell Scott (04:05)

• About Trump’s media absence vs. Biden’s:
  “Can Trump have a hot dog one day without a camera? Can he go somewhere, just sit down for a couple of days? No, he got to be in front of the camera or else he must be dead.” — James Davis (06:18)

• On handshake diplomacy:
  “Whoever’s over is the alpha. Whoever takes the under position is the beta.” — Darrell Scott (09:22)

• Satirical summary of the drug boat destruction:
  “We dropped a bomb right on their heads, the best you’ve ever seen... The FAFO president has a message: If you bring drugs into our country, we’ll bomb you straight to hell.” — Darrell Scott (19:45–20:00)

• On Chicago violence:
  “Kids are killing kids, man. Washington D.C. is not much going on compared to Chicago... I’m going back home to Africa, man. It's safer there than Chicago.” — Resident, via Scott (34:34)

• About Obama’s absence:
  “If ain't no money in it for him, he ain't got no holler for 'em. We don't care.” — Darrell Scott (40:12)

• On the Lisa Cook/Fed controversy:
  “She never lived in any of the houses and rented them all out. Now she busted. Now they like, she can just say she made a mistake, but she said everything else except, no, I didn’t.” — Darrell Scott (58:17)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:40 | Smackdown intro; Scott and Davis on the Trump "death" hoax | | 03:36 | The social media reaction and memes on Trump’s “death” | | 06:54 | Trump returns, hosts marathon cabinet meeting | | 08:03 | Discussion of the Polish President’s visit | | 09:05 | “Handshake contest” analysis: alpha vs. beta leadership | | 10:52 | Flyover tribute for Polish pilot | | 13:10 | Recap of Trump’s week and media reaction | | 17:39 | Satirizing resurrection rumors: “Trump is back, back from the dead” | | 18:32 | Report of U.S. attack on Venezuelan drug boat | | 19:45 | Row, row, row your boat… satirical poem on bombing drug smugglers | | 21:05 | The personal cost of fentanyl—real-life testimonial | | 22:03 | Trump debunks viral bag-throwing video at White House | | 24:02 | Trump answers tough Russia questions; “Get yourself a new job” | | 32:49 | Chicago segment: Trump’s possible National Guard intervention | | 34:34 | Candid Chicago resident: “It’s safer in Africa than Chicago” | | 35:46 | Critique of Democratic response to gun crime | | 37:20 | On-the-ground interviews: Chicagoans voice frustration with policies | | 39:44 | Partisan nature of opposition to Trump’s approach | | 47:57 | Smackdown of the week intro; critique of black Democrat leadership | | 51:05 | Community addresses Mayor Brandon Johnson directly | | 56:31 | Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook mortgage fraud controversy | | 58:17 | Closing smackdown: Lisa Cook lambasted for alleged fraud |

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Overall Tone and Noteworthy Features

• The tone is unapologetically brash, comedic, and confrontational, staying true to the “smackdown” brand.
• Dialogue is laced with streetwise humor, candid cultural commentary, and rhetorical showmanship aimed at skewering political opponents and media figures.
• Frequent, direct appeals to the audience position the show as the voice of “real America.”
• Recurring themes: distrust of mainstream media, critique of Democratic urban leadership, concerns about law and order, celebration of Trump’s resilience and populist flair, advocacy for tough-on-crime policies.

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Recommended For

Listeners seeking an unfiltered, pro-Trump perspective on current events, delivered with high entertainment value, skepticism of mainstream narratives, and a strong focus on law, order, and cultural issues. The episode is especially relevant for those frustrated by ongoing urban violence stories and interested in hearing grassroots-level reactions and critiques.

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Transcript

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[Darrell Scott]

Get ready for Smackdown with Darrell Scott. You've been served. No political nonsense here. The truth will set smackdown with Darrell Scott starts now. Welcome to Smackdown. I'm Darrell Scott. I got my personal assistant manager, valet, chauffeur, and gopher bobblehead right here laying under color as usual. My road dog, James Davis, riding shotgun. What up, James?

[James Davis]

What's happening, sir?

[Darrell Scott]

Hey, man, we out here set records.

[James Davis]

This is six weeks in a row. It's a record out here in these. Would have thought six weeks of the smackdown. We in these streets.

[Darrell Scott]

You know what? Maybe they need to go to one of these new gambling sites and bet on how many in a row we can. Do you know what I mean? Because this is unprecedented six straight weeks of Smackdown.

[James Davis]

Thank you. We. We. We've shaken our. Our black days off, and we were entering the fall season, so it's good stuff.

[Darrell Scott]

Well, it's a lot going on out in these streets. It was reported over the Labor Day weekend that the potus. President Trump was deceased, that the president had died. Man. Like, I started to call him to see if the rumors were true because somebody woke me up with the phone, is it true, Pastor Scott? Is it true that Trump is dead? I said, nah. Before I knew whether it was true or not. Right? The Dems were happy about it. They were even giddy, man.

[James Davis]

Yeah.

[Darrell Scott]

And they had all these memes. They had all these post. They had all these. They had all kind of stuff going on about whether or not President Trump was dead. Man, what you got to say that's.

[James Davis]

Beyond the pale of tds. I mean, the Trump and all that came out last year to give these people for the Trump derangement syndrome, that now they just want to make him dead. And it was trending on X for a while. Like, you know, Trump's dead, and they try to figure out if he is or not. Then we know what happened after that.

[Darrell Scott]

Well, this was the Democrat reaction when Trump came out the Tuesday after Labor Day, right? He's alive.

[James Davis]

I ain't seen this last president for months at a time. We know if Biden was dead or not. But one little weekend, he away from the cameras, and he's dead. But there you go. He's alive.

[Darrell Scott]

And when he announced that he was having a press conference, man, they even were saying he's going to resign because of health. Let me tell you something. If. If Trump was laying on his deathbed, hooked up to IVs, right, with the. With the beat monitor almost flatlining, right? He still ain't resigning.

[James Davis]

Thank you. That's not happening.

[Darrell Scott]

Right? Y' all can forget about that.

[James Davis]

You will not be Amendment 25 and Trump at all. Out of his. Out of his cold, dead hand. Like Charlton said, you'd be taking that presidency. He ain't going nowhere.

[Darrell Scott]

You ain't never lied. And so he stepped up to the plate and dealt with it right away. Watch this.

[Reporter/Guest]

Got it, Peter.

[Darrell Scott]

President Trump, something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend. How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead? You see that?

[Reporter/Guest]

No.

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People didn't see you for a couple days.

[Darrell Scott]

1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.

[Reporter/Guest]

Really?

[Darrell Scott]

I didn't see that.

[Reporter/Guest]

You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful. They went very well. Like this is going very well. And then I didn't do any for two days. And they said there must be something wrong with him. Biden wouldn't do him for months. You wouldn't see him. And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him. And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.

[Darrell Scott]

You can't make this up, man. He said Biden wouldn't do a press conference for months, literally. Oh, he's fine.

[James Davis]

Oh, he's fine. He's wonderful. He's as sharp as attack and all the rest of this stuff. Can Trump have a hot dog one day without a camera? Can he go somewhere, just sit down for a couple of days? No, he got to be in front of the camera or else he must be dead.

[Darrell Scott]

It's Labor Day weekend. Thank you. Can he walk around the White House quarters in his draw?

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

And scratches behind.

[James Davis]

Thank you.

[Darrell Scott]

Go to the fridge. Got on his box of shorts. Go to the fridge and get him a hot dog. Like you said. To go. And just be like, man, I'm chilling. I mean, plus, here's the thing people don't understand. A lot of people ask me why I'm not as engaged in certain activities as I was before. And going here now.

[James Davis]

Yeah.

[Darrell Scott]

I said, Man, I'm 10 years older than I was in 2015.

[James Davis]

Thank you.

[Darrell Scott]

Nobody feel like doing all that stuff. No.

[James Davis]

More like going up and down, up airplanes and, you know, getting pat down and security and all that to go hang out at the thing. No, thank you.

[Darrell Scott]

So he came back, though, with a vengeance. He answered his critics by having a 3 hour and 17 minute cabinet meeting.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

Live on the air. And this was the reception for him when he walked into the cabinet meeting. They should have played hell to the chief.

[James Davis]

Thank you. Exactly. You seen that kind of response since Bush bombed Iraq or something like that. We was all together there, but this is just like we killing it out here. And they stood up and applauded the chief.

[Darrell Scott]

So he got right back to business. And once again, he's not only President of the United States, he's become our. Probably the best international diplomat, ambassador we've ever had in this country's history. And he hosted the president of Poland. He's the Polish Trump.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

Wait a minute. Let me go back real quick. There was an international newspaper. You know what the headlines of the paper was, James?

[James Davis]

What did he say?

[Darrell Scott]

Trump said he's not dead. Trump said he's not dead. But anyway, that just came back to my mind. Somebody actually printed that. And so he hosted the president of Poland. And this president is supposed to be. They call him the Polish Trump.

[James Davis]

Right, right.

[Darrell Scott]

And, you know, he's. He's an alpha.

[James Davis]

Yeah.

[Darrell Scott]

He has machismo. He's the machismo man. Alpha.

[James Davis]

He's a populist.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah. And so he came in and this. Watch this. Ready, two.

[James Davis]

Ready, Doors.

[Darrell Scott]

Ready, pop. Ready open. Ready close. Ready shut.

[James Davis]

Ready, face.

[Darrell Scott]

Now, you know what I noticed about that?

[James Davis]

The greeting.

[Darrell Scott]

That greeting. They had the strong handshake contest right. Over who gonna win.

[James Davis]

That's right.

[Darrell Scott]

You know, when you. When a man thinks this, when you have to hold hands with somebody on the side, the fight is, though, it's over. Who's over and who's under.

[James Davis]

Yes, sir.

[Darrell Scott]

Whoever's over is the alpha. Whoever takes the under position is the beta.

[James Davis]

That's right.

[Darrell Scott]

And so now they had a. They had a handshake contest. Remember on the Flintstone.

[James Davis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Darrell Scott]

When it would be the Fred Flintstone bone crusher handshake, and his hair would be all messed up. But if you notice these two guys, they had a little tussle going on, and he's big as Trump, if not a little bit bigger.

[James Davis]

Exactly.

[Darrell Scott]

And so, you know, usually Trump is able to just walk up and, like, pick Zelensky up or tower over Putin or something like that, but he had to get his guys proper. So they had a little, you know, they had a little go at it for a minute. I thought it was interesting.

[James Davis]

Let's say McCrone still got a brace off when he crushed his little bitty head. You know what I'm saying? So. But this was a challenge for him. We got to go back and forth, and Trump ain't going out like no punk. He's not going to be the under. He's the alpha. And other guys are alpha, whatever. But, you know, they just had to Let him know it was one Alpha to the next.

[Darrell Scott]

We gonna shake.

[James Davis]

We gonna shake strong. Ain't nothing weak out here.

[Darrell Scott]

And so since it was probably like a draw, right, with the handshake contest, so Trump had to let him see. Well, this how I get down. I'm gonna show you how I get down. Like I got down for Vlad. I'm get down like this for nice. Nice little flyover flex.

[James Davis]

Just so you know. Where you at, sir? You know, we go show our. Our military might and our strength. Flying over top of your head.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah. And he did it as a tribute to. And the Polish president thanked him. Watch this. And thank you for this gesture that F35 opened our meeting. Mayor Krakowian was one of the best Polish pilots, well honed Polish pilots.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

And he died.

[Darrell Scott]

He lost two children. So it was a great tragedy.

[Reporter/Guest]

He's a legend in Poland, actually. A legend as a pilot. He was an incredible pilot, and I think he went to the Air Force Academy, actually. But he was a fantastic pilot, and it was a big. A big setback.

[Darrell Scott]

A big.

[Reporter/Guest]

The people of Poland are very, very sad, so we thought we'd do that.

[Darrell Scott]

You know, the Democrats hate it when President Trump hosts foreign leaders, and there's a good camaraderie between them. They always try to look and peek and poke and find something that they can magnify to take it out of context, and they're not able to. Man, he had the Polish. The Polish. I wonder if the Polish president likes Bobby Vinton music. You don't even know who Bobby Vinton is. I'm telling my age. Bobby Vinton. You know what his nickname was? The Polish Prince. He was a singer. Roses are red, my love violets are blue Singer, don't bring me out of here. Y' all don't understand how versatile I am. Come to my musical taste and race.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, but Bobby. No, he used to have an infomercial that came on the Polish Prince.

[James Davis]

Really? And sell the records at nighttime. You'll do that much anymore. But you're right. The. The news media always tries to put something. The whole world hates Trump. The whole. You know, they try to find one little thing, but he's a bully and all that nonsense. And every time, if they report it right, we see that there's always a camaraderie and even a. More of like a thankfulness and a submission from the. From the guests.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah. Even, like, Zelensky was there. And when Putin came, they want to make some international crisis out of it, and they're not able to do it there. And so, you know, this has been their response because, listen, it's been a bad week.

[James Davis]

Think about it.

[Darrell Scott]

Trump wasn't dead.

[James Davis]

Right?

[Darrell Scott]

First he wasn't dead. Then he came back talking smack.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

Showing no signs of any sickness or debilitation or anything at all. Then he has a 3 hour and 17 minute cabinet meeting that he broadcasts live on television. You know, then he hosts the Polish president. Then he has a flyover. He's in good health. He's still talking smack. He's tweeting. And I'm not tweeting. He's truthing out on Truth Social and everything else. And this was the Democrat response. I know what happens now.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Yeah, this is where all you evildoers retreat with your tails between your legs.

[Darrell Scott]

No one of us has to pound their fist and say curses, foiled again. Like this. Curses. Foiled again. Oh, that's the deals, James.

[James Davis]

Curses, curses.

[Darrell Scott]

Spoiled again.

[James Davis]

Every curse they, they put out there, it all fell to the ground. Here we go.

[Darrell Scott]

Everything you tried, everything you said, go right back to you. Because we made a rubber and you made a glue. And we'll be back. Shout out to Sonos for supporting today's show. I just added the Sonos Arc Ultra to my home theater and folks, it's a game changer. The surround sound is so immersive, I swear I heard the turf crunch during kickoff. And the bass, it hits like a powerhouse running back in the open field. Plus, it looks clean.

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[Leon Neyfak]

Told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi.

[Darrell Scott]

The truth became a web of lies.

[Leon Neyfak]

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

[Leon Neyfak]

Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.

[Darrell Scott]

We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.

[Leon Neyfak]

Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?

[James Davis]

Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.

[Leon Neyfak]

I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

What difference at this point does it make?

[Darrell Scott]

Yes, that's right. Lock her up.

[Leon Neyfak]

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[Darrell Scott]

President Trump is back, back from the dead. And he's back kicking butt and taking names. James.

[James Davis]

Yes, sir. But here we go. You know, the nut jobs that want to make him a religious figure. And it's like now he didn't resurrected, he was. He was dead. Or the real loom side of the Internet was saying, oh, it's a fake, Trump. You know, just every.

[Darrell Scott]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. It was a fake. It wasn't really him.

[James Davis]

It ain't really him now. Just. It's absolutely ridiculous. But Trump's back out here, like you said. Take kicking butt and taking Dave.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah. I'm on a fight on Twitter the other day with this clown that wants to convince me that Trump is the Antichrist and got mad, said he's going to expose me for not believing that nonsense because he with him back and resurrected and all that. But I know Trump.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

And he, you know, he's like, okay, when I'm coming back, never see me. When I came In a few days, when I come back, I got to come back big.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

And so watch this.

[Reporter/Guest]

When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug carrying boat. A lot of drugs in that boat. And you'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that. It just happened moments ago.

[Darrell Scott]

He shot a Venezuelan drug smuggling boat.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

Blown it out of the water, right?

[James Davis]

Yeah.

[Darrell Scott]

And the Dems are mad. He summarily executed them with no due process. House of law, man. Shut up.

[James Davis]

You can't make it up. They brought. Trinidad has been declared a terrorist organization. And they literally killing kids on our street with fentanyl. And so once they got the intel, we blowing it up. So now you defending not only criminals, but you defending a terrorist organization. You defending the fact that they selling drugs. And I mean, you can't make this stuff up. Anything that Trump does, they gonna be. He could cure cancer, he could do any of these things. They gonna be on the opposite side.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, tell me about it, man. I mean, these guys are bringing in another enough drugs to wipe, potentially wipe out half the population of the country, literally. And the Democrats are crying foul. And so we had my dude went out with an expert commentary to sum it all up. Watch this.

[James Davis]

Wow.

[Darrell Scott]

Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. We dropped a bomb right on their heads. The best you've ever seen the fake news and the left are melting down and throwing fits. Cause we took these bad hombres out and blew them all to bits. The FAFO president has a message for the. If you bring drugs into our country, we'll bomb you straight to hell. It's called eff around and find out. And these bad hombres effed around. And now they found out. And now they're fish food trende. Aragua is trend day annihilated.

[Reporter/Guest]

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Darrell Scott]

Now they're fish food.

[James Davis]

They found out that they came out of nowhere too. Talk about a deterrent. They just sailing along like they normally do, bringing all the dope, like, yeah, we, we headed to America, wherever they was headed to. And then in the middle of the night, in the middle of the blam. Yeah, we can see you.

[Darrell Scott]

I mean, you can't make this up, man. And like, like I said, he did that. He prevented the drugs from reaching our shore. Yeah, and the dog. See, the Democrats are upset about it. I can't. I can't understand this.

[James Davis]

You would think they would be happy I have a person in my, you know, at our church that they literally buried their daughter last year from a fentanyl overdose. And so you think that these, the bleeding heart left that supposedly, you know, the bleeding heart over everything, that they would have something that says, you know what, this is a good thing that we blew up and stopped this dope from making our swords. But of course not. Is hate Trump at all costs, no matter what.

[Darrell Scott]

And Trump's back. And so, you know, he does what Joe Biden wouldn't do, which is stand before the press and answer questions. And he has to deal with a lot of nonsense and okie doke and for lack of a better term, bs, just dumb. Such as this watch video that is circulating online now of the White House where a window is open to the residents upstairs and somebody is throwing a big bag out the window. Have you seen this?

[Reporter/Guest]

No, that's probably AI generator. So actually you can't open the windows. You know why? They're all heavily armored and bulletproof.

[James Davis]

A fake video.

[Reporter/Guest]

Well, it's got to be because I know every window up there. The last place I'd be doing it. Is that because there's cameras all over the place, right? Including yours. No, but every window. I've never seen a window that's. In fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day. She said, love to have a little fresh air come in, but you can't. They're bulletproof and number one, they're sealed. And number two, each window weighs about 600 pounds. You have to be pretty strong to open them up.

[Darrell Scott]

They're like, man, now they're like upstairs throwing stuff out the windows. And he's like, the windows are sealed and bulletproof and weigh 600 pounds. Right. You know, a window at the White House, it has to be secured, has to be. But here we go.

[James Davis]

They don't even put any IQ into these lies. Like, you know, let's think up a lie we can put out here some dumb AI video, whatever. Not realizing that even hotels and different sky risers since the Depression, they all seal the window so people don't jump out of. So we know the White House is going to be sealed, but they just, again, dumb. And this is a dumb question that he got to answer in the middle of his, his comeback press conference because they don't want to talk about the good stuff that he's doing.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, absolutely. Right. I mean, you can't go on an upper floor at a hotel, right? Those windows to be opened anymore.

[James Davis]

No way.

[Darrell Scott]

And so here's the dumb stuff. And so then look at this nonsense. This is when he had his host with the Polish pens. You know, media is dumb all over, right, Dao? Dumb all over. It's always some trying to. And they don't realize. Don't come over to Trump with that stuff.

[James Davis]

That's right.

[Darrell Scott]

They ought to know by now not to try this dude, because he's undefeated. Peep this.

[Reporter/Guest]

Should have been invited.

[Darrell Scott]

What was the reason, Mr. President, do you think they should have invited? You've expressed many times your event frustration and disappointment with Putin, but there's no action since you took your office.

[Reporter/Guest]

How do you know there's no. How do you know there's no action? Really? Wait, wait.

[Darrell Scott]

Who. Who are you.

[Reporter/Guest]

Who are you with?

[Darrell Scott]

Okay.

[Reporter/Guest]

How do you know there's no action? Would you say that putting secondary sanctions on India, the largest purchaser outside of China, they're almost equal? Or would you say there was no action that cost hundreds of billions of dollars to Russia? You call that no action? And I haven't done phase two yet or phase three. But when you say there's no action, I think you ought to get yourself a new job. Because if you remember two weeks ago I did, I said, if India buys, India's got big problems, and that's what happens. So don't tell me about that.

[Darrell Scott]

He said, you need to get another job.

[James Davis]

Right.

[Darrell Scott]

You're saying there's no action. I did this, I did this, I did this, I did that. And just because you haven't heard anything doesn't mean that there's not anything like I'm gonna release everything I'm doing to the media in advance.

[James Davis]

Exactly. But some of these things are public knowledge. But it's like we've been saying for years is that journalism is dead. You would think he would look underneath the rocks and turn over a few leaves, make a few phone calls and see exactly what's going on. But no, there's no. Because he's a Putin sycophant. You know, he's Putin's lapdog and other nonsense they talked about that's been proven to be just utter nonsense. And so he got handled. He's like, who are you with? Just so I can label you with the rest of the fake news.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, he's like, what's. What's the word? Fake in Polish? How do you say fake news in Polish? But you know what? When he thinks no action, you know, Putin and. And Xi and Kim Jong Un all had a Ted, Ted. They all got at a powwow together recently.

[James Davis]

Right?

[Darrell Scott]

You familiar with that?

[James Davis]

Yeah. They had their summit.

[Darrell Scott]

President Trump had a truth. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but he said, please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and President Z as you conspire against the United States of America.

[James Davis]

Because ain't no other reason the three of y' all get in the room except to talk about us. That's all y' all in there talking about. How can we get this truck?

[Darrell Scott]

Y' all better be hope I don't send send a nuke over there and bomb y' all out of that room. It feels stupid if he did that. Meanwhile, once again, the dumb Dems was doing what they had to do regarding Trump's the report of his death. And as like Mark Twain said, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Scott Jennings couldn't take it anymore. Look what he did.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

You had an opportunity to ask the President today about this and you did not.

[Darrell Scott]

Why? Because when he got on the phone.

[Leon Neyfak]

And sounded very much alive, I thought.

[Darrell Scott]

It would sound kind of stupid frankly to Alaskan alive person if they were dead. But I'll tell you who is a complete piece of. I'm gonna tell you right now, there.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Have been a lot of swear words.

[Darrell Scott]

Of Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, holding up a phone in front of a rally saying, well, we thought we were gonna wake up and find out the President had died. Someday it'll happen. Someday it'll happen. Although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying, just saying there will be news sometime. Just so you know, there will be news. And I used to say he was the biggest buffoon in American politics, but it's worse now. That fat Don Rickles looking tampon Tim clown thinks he's gonna get a new career and stand up and he needs to shut up. He's stupid. Sky man Scott Jennings called him an sob right? And everything else.

[James Davis]

This is Richard Simmons. I ain't gonna say the other word. I want to call him going there, but you know this guy and it's not funny. I mean, sit up there trying to get laughs or whatever, it's not funny. We had two attempts on the President's life. There's always threats in the rest of it. And you think it's going to be a good day if they wake up. If he wake up and he dies, you better be careful pushing that, putting that on him. Because there's been some others whose people I won't name that this will happen over my dead body. And these people have died in the last decade, so it's been over their dead body. This president is in the White House doing what he's doing.

[Darrell Scott]

And you know how petty President Trump can be. He almost now me and him about neck and neck for petty, that's for sure. But he's the type that will piss on your grave. He won't mourn you, right?

[James Davis]

Yeah, not at all.

[Darrell Scott]

They run the tape, say, see this, what he did, But Tyrus summed it up. Tyrus put it all in. In. In perspective for us. Watch this, James. You going to like this. Yes, the president died.

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[Darrell Scott]

And then he resurrected in two days. You know what that means? You know what he mean. You know what that means? Yes, he's been reborn. Yes, he can run for two more times. That is. You're absolutely right. Happy birthday, Mr. President. Welcome back. How was it? I'mma say this, James, and I hope you Christians out there don't get offended because I'm a Christian and I'm just kidding. But Trump is like, you know, it took Jesus three days to resurrect.

[James Davis]

It only took me two because of I'm faster and I'm far, far superior. You know, I'm far greater. I'm more fast than Jesus. Trump is Lazarus out here. You know what I'm saying? By now, by now, he's thinking, in.

[Darrell Scott]

The grave, I'm gonna take it away from Jesus. I'll put it on Lazarus. Three days. Lazarus didn't get up till the fourth day. I got up on Saturday, too.

[James Davis]

I'm back. But. But you know what? They'll run the Lazarus clip over on cnn and, like, we can't. This is not funny. He gonna try and run again, you know, because he was dead and resurrected, you know? Oh, they just need to stop.

[Darrell Scott]

All right, we'll be back.

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[Leon Neyfak]

Rec what I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?

[Darrell Scott]

The truth became a web of lies.

[Leon Neyfak]

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

[Leon Neyfak]

Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.

[Darrell Scott]

We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.

[Leon Neyfak]

Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?

[James Davis]

Benghazi is a Rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.

[Leon Neyfak]

I'm Leon Neyfak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

What difference at this point does it make?

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.

[Leon Neyfak]

Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Hey there. I'm Mary Kathryn Hammond.

[Darrell Scott]

Hi.

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And I'm Carol Markowitz. We've been in political media for a long time. Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. That's why we started Normaly, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously. So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass, you're our kind of people. Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

[Darrell Scott]

President Trump has had so much success with the National National Guard and the Feds suppressing crime in Washington, D.C. that he has his sights set on Chicago next. James, you remember back February 1, 2017, you and I were at the White House with him and we talked about Chicago and what did he say? He said I might have to send. I'm gonna send the National Guard in there if they don't come on. Remember he said that to us.

[James Davis]

It was, it was either prescient, indeed it was like prescient or prophetic that it was going to happen. It didn't happen in the first term, but now we see what the conversation. Here we go again about it happening.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, watch this on Chicago, though.

[Reporter/Guest]

Well, we're going in. I didn't say when we're going in. When you lose. Look, I have an obligation. This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation. When we lose. When 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets.

[Darrell Scott]

So that's the scuttle. That's word on the street. Trump is coming to Chicago, you know, and this is how the people feel about it. Watch. Hey, Trump, Trump, you need to bring the National Guards to Chicago, man. You got kids killing kids, man. That's not good, man. Washington D.C. is not much going on compared to Chicago, man. I'm running. It's a war happening right now in Chicago, man. Hey, hey, look, man, look. Go on the news, go on the news or go on Google type Chicago. I'm going back home to Africa, man. I can't, I can't. Too much going on, man, in Chicago, man. I'm going back home in the jungle with lions and tigers and hyenas and stuff because it's safer there than it is in Chicago.

[James Davis]

They really got mosquitoes that could kill you. Where he from? He like, it's better, it's safer for me to be there than it is to be walking around Chicago and it's got a little bit of fear on his face. But he's right. Bring the, bring the dag on Guard in here because there's too much going on.

[Darrell Scott]

And the Dems, of course, are upset about that. Trump's present crime and they don't like it. And so remember this space alien laser beam looking like something off of Star Wars. Former politician, one of the ugliest politicians that ever. Uglier than Aunt Hester was on Sabbath. So I'm one of the ugliest politicians in the history of politics. They popped up, they came out to say something. Watch this.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

If he really cared about violent crime, go after the gun manufacturers who are just mass producing these Weapons and have no liability or accountability. Go after the gun stores that know that they're selling to straw purchasers that flood into our city. Pass common sense gun reform that we have been begging for, for decades. Those are the kinds of things that actually would make a meaningful difference in violent crime. He's not talking about any of those things. He will not do any of those things because this is not about violent crime. It's about something else, man.

[Darrell Scott]

James, blaming the deaths on guns is like blaming death on cars when there are car accidents.

[James Davis]

Exactly.

[Darrell Scott]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

[James Davis]

Thank you. Thank you. That's like saying the fork made me fat. It's because I kept eating. But Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. We say it three times. She looked like Beetlejuice. She just the worst, absolute worst Chicago politician. But again, you want to take guns out of lawful citizens hands, law abiding citizens hands, but they're still going to be in the hands of the criminals. They literally take 15 year olds and hand them a gun to go shoot somebody because they know they're going to slap on the wrist. And this stuff goes on every single day in Chicago.

[Darrell Scott]

Nobody would love for you to pull guns out of American citizens hands more than the criminals will. Because the criminals use illegal guns. They don't use, they don't go in, purchase a gun from the gun store, register it in their name and then go out and shoot somebody with it. And then they don't do that.

[James Davis]

And if we can't shoot back, they really love that. You talking about burglaries and robbings and all the rest of that. That's going to escalate because they know that I'm unarmed now because of this so called gun laws y' all want to put on the books.

[Darrell Scott]

Here's another clown, the mayor. We're going to visit him again a little bit later. But, but look what this clown had to say. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Ch. I go. Just a dumb, dumb person standing up there talking. But here's what the people on the street have to say. James, here's some more. Watch this. It just gone from bad to worse to disaster.

[James Davis]

No one really feels safe. It's impossible to feel safe in a.

[Darrell Scott]

City like this, especially with the leadership we have. These kids are carrying guns like around.

[James Davis]

The ages of 8 years old and.

[Darrell Scott]

They'Re killing other 8 year old kids with guns.

[James Davis]

It's insane.

[Darrell Scott]

My opinion, not enough police officers. A police officer's hands are tied. So the police is really unappreciated for off hand under the, under Brandon Johnson, Lori Lightsfoot, JB Prister. Those are three are the reason why nobody wants to be a police. Their policies when it comes to crime is not working at all.

[Leon Neyfak]

I think the biggest piece of the pie has to be more police officers, more protection. That's what the people want.

[Darrell Scott]

In Chicago over the weekend, at least 54 people were shot. This is just over Labor Day weekend. Seven killed. Several of the incidents were mass shootings with multiple victims at a single scene. In one instance, a teenage girl was hit with a stray bullet. The violence comes as President Trump threatens to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago to quell the crime there, despite objections from the city's mayor, Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker. Unfortunately, Joe, this is not unusual in Chicago, which has been plagued by gun violence for generations. Not years, for generations. 54 people shot this weekend in Chicago. Seven killed. I mean, and those numbers just keep piling up. When Joe and Mika have to acknowledge the fact that things are bad, you know, it's bad.

[James Davis]

I mean, they in sorrow sackcloth and asses because they have to agree with the President that something has to be done. Four people shot.

[Darrell Scott]

Eight.

[James Davis]

I saw one on the news this morning that her, her daughter, 18 years old, just graduated from high school and she's catches a stray in a store. Just going to get snacks from the store. I mean, it's beyond the pale right now. And the only thing that's going to deter that is a military presence. I'm sorry. They need to see some camo, some tanks, some, some Humvees and all the rest of it going up and down the streets and that'll quell some of that nonsense, even if it's just temporary.

[Darrell Scott]

You're absolutely right. I mean, it will suppress, reduce, and in a lot of cases eliminate crime. To know that there's a federal presence there, right. A law enforcement that, that have more artillery than you have.

[James Davis]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Darrell Scott]

You get what I'm saying? Because otherwise it's going to go. It's gone from bad to worse, but it's going to go from worse to worser.

[James Davis]

And especially with these leaders, these mayors and all the rest of it. Because once again, it's just anti Trump. If Beasley, Barack Obama was saying we need to go and send me some help in Chicago and get the streets together, they would welcome it to say, oh, he's so Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. President, for sending that resource here. But because it's Trump, they're trying to make it a racial thing. If it was truly racist, he just let the black folk just continue to kill each other. If he's a genuine racist, but he's not. He hates death. If you look at this president, he hates the killing. He hates the killing in wars and the killing in our American streets.

[Darrell Scott]

Now, you said something profound right there, though, a minute ago. Obama, Chicago, that's his place. I haven't heard he quiet as a church mouse. I haven't heard a peek out of him to say, my fellow Chicagoans, right, let's stop this, my fellow black Americans. Yes, let's stop killing each other. That man is quiet because if ain't no money in it for him, he ain't got no holler for him. We don't care.

[James Davis]

Some political power because he ran out there to get it. Get everybody in line to say, y' all got to get together and vote for Kamala. You know, I'm seeing the numbers, and black men ain't lining up about. Okay, you could say that. But you can't come out and say, black men. You stop killing. These black kids need to stop killing each other.

[Darrell Scott]

You know what he thinks the answer to the violence in Chicago is?

[James Davis]

What is it?

[Darrell Scott]

Every black kid, they need a gay man. If they get a gay mentor, it'll make them so soft that they'll stop. They'll stop thugging with each other.

[James Davis]

Too much masculinity in Chicago. We need to have rainbow quarter, not rainbow month. We're gonna bring the LGB thing and just run it ad nauseam.

[Darrell Scott]

Well, rumor has it that the federal troops have already gone into Chicago. Somebody hit me up yesterday morning and said, look, Trump's sending them in already.

[James Davis]

Wow.

[Darrell Scott]

And we were able to verify the fact that there have been some federal troops, soldiers that have gone into Chicago and are ready to be on the streets, and they're ready. And one even actually had an encounter. James, on the streets of Chicago.

[James Davis]

Wow.

[Darrell Scott]

And we have it on video what happened to this brave soldier that went in and just watch. You'll see.

[James Davis]

You go out there alone, boy, they gonna shoot your ass off. I'm a soldier, man.

[Darrell Scott]

I've been trained for combat roll. They shooting. They shooting. Somebody shooting. Get your ass down. What?

[James Davis]

Thought you were trained for combat. Yeah, yeah, I was, but I ain't.

[Darrell Scott]

Never been in it. They shooting. They shoot it. Somebody shoot it.

[James Davis]

Train for combat. You over there doing. Doing the dance, man.

[Darrell Scott]

He was dancing. He was dancing. But he said, I thought you was trained for combat. He said, yeah, I was But I wasn't never in it. And that was me when I went into the Army, James. I went in right after Vietnam, and we were trained for combat, but I was glad to. Those jungles in Cambodia or wherever else. I bet I didn't have to go to any of those jungles to fight.

[James Davis]

No, that's right. I'd rather be trained than have to be in it. Try to figure it out.

[Darrell Scott]

I know how brothers think, man. Yeah, we know. You know, it's a lot of stuff black people say that white people don't know we say it. Y' all got a sneaky suspicion that we saying it, but y' all can't prove it. But we really do be saying it. And we be saying stuff like, let one of them take a shot at me. I don't care. I'm shooting first and asking questions later. Cuz we just as scared to walk in the hood as white folks are.

[James Davis]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Darrell Scott]

Black people, respectable black people, we just are scared to go down there. Now we're playing off, right? Like, when I go down into the hood, James, Which I do. Go down in the hood, right? I turn my hat backwards.

[James Davis]

Thank you.

[Darrell Scott]

I put that dog on my face.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

I adjust my walk so I can get my pimp game on. When I'm walking and I look around like, I wish one of you MF Would think about it. But in my heart I'll be like, I hope one of these MF Think about it.

[James Davis]

Listen, I don't get gas. And when I do get gas, you know, I'm getting me a box while I'm getting gas. And the first thing I hear as soon as I get is my wife locking the door. They gonna come snatch me out of here with your brave self down here trying to get something to eat. But like you say, you know, you got to put your dog on. Like, I'm from here, but I'm. I moved away, but I ain't gonna let you get me.

[Darrell Scott]

Let them know. Hey, man, don't, don't. Don't even. Don't. Don't think about it. Don't even think about it. But it's a certain kind of vibe you gotta have. You better have some swag when you go down there, because they can sniff. What's the movie I smell?

[James Davis]

You know what?

[Darrell Scott]

They can smell some femininity. They can smell hormones. When you go down there, you better let them smell some testosterone. Because if they smelling estrogen and hormones, you gonna get got. And we'll be back.

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[Leon Neyfak]

Rec when I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi?

[Darrell Scott]

The truth became a web of lies.

[Leon Neyfak]

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?

[Leon Neyfak]

Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.

[Darrell Scott]

We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together.

[Leon Neyfak]

Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?

[James Davis]

Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.

[Leon Neyfak]

I'm Leon Naifak from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

What difference at this point does it make?

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, that's right. Lock her up.

[Leon Neyfak]

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[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

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[Darrell Scott]

All right, we're rounding third and heading home into our final segment featuring our smackdown of the week. James, you know what?

[James Davis]

What's that?

[Darrell Scott]

Candace Owens again has been so quiet this week. I don't have anything to say. Wow, finally she's been quiet, man. I don't have no Candace material this week. I had to dig up some old stuff, and I'm not gonna do that.

[James Davis]

Took a break like Trump did. She took Labor Day off, so, you know, no smacking her today.

[Darrell Scott]

So, you know, so first runner up smackdown of the week is our black clown du jour. You know what? It's not so much that there are certain elements of the black community, just like every community that makes everybody look bad. Like there are certain elements of the white community that make everybody look bad. I mean, you got folks shooting up, you know, doing stuff, and you got certain elements of the Hispanic community that makes everybody look bad. All of the Hispanics look bad. You know, it reflects poorly on. Off the. But you know what's worse for our black people is the black Democrat leaders make us look even worse. Yes. Than the people that are reflecting poorly upon the entire community, man.

[James Davis]

The leaders, right. The people that's out front and the way they act and conduct themselves. And so we get broad brush with all of them. Like, we just monolithic. It's like these people really think and act like this. We don't, but this. The guys is out front to get.

[Darrell Scott]

The camera, but they co sign lawlessness.

[James Davis]

Yes.

[Darrell Scott]

And recklessness and bad behavior all the time. And they even have the ones like. Like jazzy crotch itch. That Panama us. Whereas depending on what arena she's in, she adjusts her vernacular and her vocal tones and all of that. So the latest one today.

[James Davis]

Okay.

[Darrell Scott]

Is your boy and mine, bj.

[James Davis]

Oh, wow, Here we go. Bj. In these streets, we gonna call them. See, see, see, see this? Brandon Johnson.

[Darrell Scott]

Bj. Bj, I hear these streets. Watch this. We can actually solve crime in the city of Chicago with my Plan. We will never be able to end gun violence in Chicago as long as the President continues to allow tens of thousands of guns to be trafficked into our state and our city while he's running for mayor. I'm gonna be able to stop the violence in Chicago right then, once he is mayor. It's all Trump's fault and it ain't.

[James Davis]

Going nowhere with that stupid Mohawker here from a decade that we was putting that on the babies two decades ago. Like my grandbaby and stuff got that haircut. He said, they're a grown man now. All of a sudden, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make it go away. That everybody vote for. And then now it's just, just people dying every single day. And it's Trump's fault.

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah, well, he said it's Trump's fault, but let's see whose fault the people think it is. Watch. Either you're close friend with the devil or you're sleeping with the devil. I have no respect for you. You're raggedy y'.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

All anti American agenda is going out the way. It's going out the door.

[James Davis]

First thing I want to do is thank the DOJ for opening up an investigation on the mayor's insane, out of control DEI hiring. You said in a recent interview that black people don't just look out for ourselves, but for everyone else as well. Well, clearly they're not getting the memo because they're destroying downtown and they're destroying the city with things like teen takeover. And when you say things like this, it just makes you look more incompetent and racist. As a mayor, you need to start pushing more law and order in the city of Chicago. Help the police do their job. I am asking you all to vote for the curfew and make the curfew time permanent for teens. Hold the parents accountable as well. Teens are doing majority of the crime and you know it, Brandon Johnson. They're even putting it on YouTube. They are openly mocking you. They're mocking you on Instagram and YouTube and all social media platforms and you allow it every single day. Now, allegedly, inside sources tell me that you're going to use your 840 million dollar in cash bonds to try and get reelected. Well, I'm here to tell you that that's not happening. I am demanding a forensic audit from.

[Darrell Scott]

Pam Bundy and Cash Patel for you.

[James Davis]

To come here or for, for you guys to come here and do a forensic audit on the Mayor of Chicago. We have been calling for the Attorney General and the Leader of the FBI for months now. Please do not forget about us. Harboring illegal aliens in America who commit crimes is a violation of of the Constitution. I hope Trump and his team are listening and take action as soon as possible. Thank you.

[Reporter/Guest]

Thank you very much for your comments.

[Darrell Scott]

You not only the most incompetent mayor, you the most progressive mayor, you the most woke mayor in the city of Chicago. Where's the revenue going to go? Is it going to go to the deficit because of you, your mask? Or it's going to go to the illegals that you love so much? So here's the thing. What's going to happen is this. You are going to go to prison before you get elected out of office. You was over there in Congress sweating yourself to death, didn't know how much that you gave to the illegal. $600 million that you put in their.

[James Davis]

Pockets at the time.

[Darrell Scott]

You protect these legal more than you protect the women of Chicago. You protect the, the illegal more than the blacks in Chicago. You protect the illegals more than the children who've been victimized and stuff of crime. Either you're close friends with the devil or you're sleeping with the devil. I don't know. I don't even talk to you no more. I have no respect for you. You're raggedy. Your administration is raggedy. The Democratic Party is detrimental to America and you by far have continued to let it just do whatever because you don't care.

[James Davis]

Because you don't stole so much money, right? And you done went down to Congress and lied under oath because you were just an idiot.

[Darrell Scott]

You are a weak man. You are a traitor. Please bring in ICE because we are under attack.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

You all invaded our communities, in our city, in our state state with illegal aliens. And I'm telling you right now, we're taking our city back. Yeah, everybody gonna, everybody gonna feel safe.

[James Davis]

Everybody gonna be prosperous.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Not just one, everybody, the whole Chicago.

[Darrell Scott]

Chicago is going to flip.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

Red. Until our almighty God, they told him.

[Darrell Scott]

A new technical fans on it. But you know what makes him a suck leader, James?

[James Davis]

What's that?

[Darrell Scott]

I wish I would have sat up there be the mayor said, let them talk that smack to me. I'd have been making sound bites that day. I'd have been, I went vi. I'd have been like, look here fat boy, who you talking to? I told that chick that big man. I wouldn't have took it. I don't get what was wrong. Y' all ain't talking to me like that.

[James Davis]

He sit there, just took it like a puck. But like, like, but it's like a fat boy says, like you're raggedy. Yeah. I don't got no respect for. He just ran it all down. There's nothing like down to earth black people telling the truth because when they put it there in unsophisticated terms, it winds up being absolutely what's going on in that city.

[Darrell Scott]

Now it's time for our smackdown of the week. Speaking of black leaders that make all the black people look bad, here's another leader that winds up perpetuating the stereotype that all black people lie. Watch this. Headlines coming in on the escalating mortgage fraud accusations and controversy embroiling Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who President Trump fired. Cook's lawyer Abby Lowell in a new court filing, is trying to blame the Biden White House. Trying to pin on the Biden White House and the U.S. senate themselves for not catching Cook's mortgage fraud allegations, claiming they did not vet her enough after she listed three homes as her principal residence. Says she's accused of doing that to get cheaper and lower mortgage rates. CNN's Tom Foreman unpacks the accusations against Cook that brought us to this point. At issue, in 2021, Cook purchased a.

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Home in Michigan, then another home in Georgia, declaring both to be her primary residence based on a CNN review of mortgage documents. Potentially double dipping on financial incentives for home buyers. But analysts not denied wrongdoing. She was never charged. That might not be a valid cause to fire her anyway and she may have an explanation.

[Sonos Sponsor Voice]

She could just say she made a mistake.

[Darrell Scott]

However, Trump has been fuming at the Fed for months. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has three homes and big troubles. She claimed to the banks that she lived at all of them, but real estate records show she listed two of them for rent. That's not legal. So Lisa must be living here in Ann Arbor at the third house. Right.

[Reporter/Guest]

The door's dirty.

[Darrell Scott]

There's a key lock box right there.

[Reporter/Guest]

There's a white man at the dining room table.

[Darrell Scott]

It's weird. I think she's married.

[Reporter/Guest]

How you doing?

[Darrell Scott]

Okay. How are you? I'm good. My name's Charlie. I'm a reporter. I was. This house is in the news. I was wondering if Lisa Cook lives here or do you rent. She. Look, James, you in the mortgage business? She lied on that app. Talk to us.

[James Davis]

Listen, I owned a mortgage company from 1996 up to the crash. And I'm telling you, I say it all the time. Don't lie on the application. It's a federal offense and this is what she doing. It's the triple dip. I'm owner occupied, which means you put. Put less money down. You ain't got to add a 20% down. She probably did 3 to 5% down and then lying and got all the incentives of a first time home buyer when she wasn't a first time home buyer. So this is just plain fraud. There's no. There's no lying your way out of this.

[Darrell Scott]

Here's the worst part. She never lived in any of the houses. Like, I moved in. That was my primary residence for a month. And then I moved out and moved over here and did this, that she never lived in any of the houses and rented them all out. Now she busted. Now they like, she can just say she made a mistake, but she said everything else except, no, I didn't. Right. So, Lisa Cook, just for you being. And you know, she's not. She ain't the cutest thing out there either. Now, I will say that. She not. You know, she on the. She on. She on the. Letitia James. She in that kind of float. Letitia James. She on that. Yeah. So anyway, all three, James. One, two, three. We. We smack you down. We smack it off a line. Gone and walk off before you get prosecuted even more. Trump fired her. She trying to keep her job, but now she's trying to blame Joe Biden and say, well, you know what she said? Well, y' all should have caught me. Reminds me of when my nephew was on the run from the police and we told him to turn himself in. You know what he said? He was on the billboards, the crime said. He said, hey, man, I'm not gonna do their job for them. Their job is to catch me.

[James Davis]

Now it's Biden's fault?

[Darrell Scott]

Yeah. So now it's Joe Biden's fault. They should have caught that in vetting. They should have never gave me the job. All right, we running out of time. We'll be back for our seventh straight week next week. Same smack time, same smack Network. On behalf of James Bobblehead and myself, I'm Darrell Scott and I am out. See ya.

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[Leon Neyfak]

What? I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why Benghazi.

[Darrell Scott]

The truth became a web of lies.

[Leon Neyfak]

From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco Benghazi.

[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

What difference at this point does it make?

[Leon Neyfak]

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[Carol Markowitz / Mary Kathryn Hamm]

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