Clay Travis (23:24)
I'm sorry, was she asleep for the last four years? You really have to wonder, does she not understand what has been happening in this country? We had a presidential candidate and former president under indictment in four different cases. The first time it had ever happened, and then they did it four times. So they're going to try to tell us about the precedent that it sets now. Oh, my gosh, James Comey. This is madness. And never mind the fact that you had senior Trump advisers who went to prison, okay? Navarro and Bannon are older gentlemen, and they had to pick which bunk bed they were sleeping in for, like, six months. They went to prison because they stood on their principles and refused to bend the knee to the Democrat lawfare. They actually serve time over that. And there are others in the Trump orbit who have as well. But we're supposed to weep. We're supposed to be upset about the. The precedent that is set by James Comey. Maybe. And it's a big maybe, maybe facing some form of justice here. Just understand this. Comey's perfectly happy sending other people to prison many times over for lying to the FBI, lying to Congress, lying, whatever the case may be. He had no problem with that. James Comey didn't shed a tear for all the people over all the years that he was f. He was in the FBI or that he was a federal prosecutor, in which case he was really making the decisions. Right. FBI investigates, but the FBI will refer to. They work very hand in glove with U.S. attorneys with AUSAs. And so if the FBI hands a case over, they're like, well, we think this guy's, you know, go get him. US Attorneys usually going to say, yeah, okay, and they do. But Comey's been on both sides of that coin. Remember, Comey has never had a badge and a gun and tackled a bad guy to the ground in his life. That's an important aspect of this as well. It's like, oh, the FBI director, he's a law man. He's a, you know, he's a G man. He's a guy that. No, he's. He's a lawyer and a scummy one. So that's something that I think you have to keep in mind here as well, that, that Comey was perfectly willing to send. That's why the Martha Stewart example, I think, is so powerful. I know it's a long time ago, almost like 20 years now, but it still goes to show you, he doesn't shed a tear for other people when they are separated from their family, humiliated reputation ruined for the most. For the most minor transgression under the most strict reading of federal statute. So why should. Why should this not be a case of what's good for the goose is good for the gander? That's the phrase, right? Yes. Just making sure. So the only reason I know what a get like, did you know what a gander was. Other than that, I never, you know, have you ever been with somebody where they point, they're like, look at the gander, you know what I mean? I don't know. I've never had that one. So at least I know the got the phrase right, which is, which is important. So, yes, COMEY is facing all this. And now, okay, let's do some, let's do some talk about this situation in. Oh, sorry, I was pulling this up situation in Chicago. But I wanted to note something because I keep telling you with respect to Taipei, Taiwan, please go listen to the interview I did. It's up@clayandbuck.com with the President of Taiwan. It got picked up by Bloomberg. It's been picked up by a lot of news organizations around the world. Now, he says some really important stuff. He says that President Trump is the deciding factor here to create peace or to sustain peace in that area. And if he does, and he thinks he will, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize just for that. So a lot of, a lot of reason, I think, to listen to that, if you can. But there's also what I, the case that I've been making to you is look at how safe it is. This, this, this is going to translate to our Chicago and Portland discussion here in just a second. But I said, look at how safe it is in Taipei, Taiwan. Look at what it's like there. And the same thing is true in Tokyo. There are a number of cities. Norway has an incredibly low crime rate and very nice fjords, but very low crime rate. And. Or is that Sweden? I might have just, actually, I might have just Sweden, Norway. Do they, they both have fjords, right? Do they both call them fjords? Whatever. So this is why I got a crack research team here. They're going to correct me on my fjords, ganders and fjords. We're learning, we're learning all kinds of new things. People say to me in response to this. I got a lot of, first of all, some folks are saying, is it, is it, it's just nice to observe that. It's nice to know that that is possible. But what a lot of, even conservatives were saying to me online when I shared that, that experience in Taiwan, it's just, there's just no crime. Worrying about being, you know, brutally carjacked or something in Taiwan is like worrying about a shark attack in two feet of water. It can happen, but I don't think you're really going to worry about it. You know, it's not impossible, but you Don't. Whereas there are other places where, you know, you're jumping in the water, they're chumming the water, and there's already some big fins. You know, like, you got problems. Right. It's very different mentality, very different situation. But people kept saying to me, oh, but it's so different there. In specifically the cases of Taiwan, Japan, I would add Norway to that list because they say those are cohesive, high trust cultures. Now, that is true, but there's something, there's. There's another layer, there's another part of this argument that I want conservatives, I want the right, I want the Trump team, some of whom are listening right now, hey, guys, I want them to know this and have this one ready to deploy because this is important. People will somewhat dismiss the low crime miracle, if you will, of a Taiwan, a Tokyo, a Norway, Switzerland kind of has a similar ish level of crime. They'll dismiss it because they'll say, well, that's their small country. Well, Japan's not a small country, But Taiwan's got 23 million people. It's not that small. But the, the cultural cohesiveness that, that everyone is. It's places that are not, that are not, you know, multilingual and diverse places that there is a high level of societal trust. Okay, well, what about El Salvador? This is really, I keep telling everybody, there's a reason the media doesn't want to talk about El Salvador, and they want to do everything possible in this country to undermine Bukele, who is responsible for a miraculous turnaround. Rudy Giuliani himself would give Bukele a high five because, remember, Rudy had the New York miracle with crime. He would give bukele a high five for what he has done in El Salvador in 2015. Ten years ago, El Salvador was at 103 homicides, poor per 100,000 residents. That is, if not at that time, the highest in the world. It was top three, and it might have been the highest. Honduras, El Salvador, these countries were going back and forth, but let's just say it was basically the highest murder rate in the world. For a country not at war, right? You don't count war deaths the same way, but for homicides. El Salvador was the single most dangerous place, certainly, you know, top three in the world. And very different. I don't think, I don't think anybody needs an explanation. Very different culturally and otherwise from Japan and Norway. And it's a Latin American country. El Salvador in this year had1.1 murder per 100,000 residents, 100 times reduction in the murder rate in 10 years. So I don't want to hear this fatalism from people that, oh, that's only possible. You can only make streets safe. You can only make people feel like their wives and daughters can jog alone at night without a care in the world other than traffic. You can only do that in places like Japan and, and Taiwan and Norway and Switzerland and Monaco, you know, places like that. It's not true. And what should be happening right now is the rest of Latin America. I mean, the, the crime rate in some of these Latin American countries is still astonishing. Parts of Mexico are very safe, but parts of Mexico are among the most dangerous places in the world. Now, it's a big country, so that brings the overall number down a bit. But Colima, Mexico, which is in the central south, I would guess you'd say on a map, it controls. It's a city nearby to one of the main Pacific ports where all the fentanyl precursors are coming in. That is the city that certainly last year had the highest murder rate in the world. It was the most. It's just a cartel war going on there. Highest murder rate in the world. And the truth is, any Latin American country, and really any country can do what El Salvador has done. And what Bukele deserves a standing ovation for which he is getting from his people, by the way, despite how much the Washington Post hates him and despite how much CNN tries to undermine him, because it's possible here, too. You get the crime, you tolerate. Society makes a choice. It does not have to be this way. And for everybody who is dismissing a little bit of what I saw in Taiwan, I say, okay, El Salvador is pretty much as safe as Taiwan now. Pretty close. You want to explain that one to me? If they can do it, why can't Chicago? If they can do it, why can't other places in this country with high crime rates? The Portland situation is a little different. That's more about anarchy disorder and stopping ice. It's a slightly different law enforcement issue there. They don't have a super high murder rate, which is a good thing. But in countries where they do, there really is no argument that it has to be this way. There's just people who don't want to face reality and people who are ignorant of what is possible. And enough is enough. And I think this is why Donald Trump is absolutely on the right track with it. And like I said, just, just even Hear the statistic. 103 murders per 100,000 ten years ago in El Salvador, one per 100,000 murders last year. That's telling you something, isn't it? All right, look, you don't travel through half a dozen time zones twice in a week without needing an energy supplement, right? I mean, the jet lag is rough, but I've got chalk, my friends. 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