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Donald Trump (0:00)
Humans are persuading no one. They know that they're failing. They have the devil's ideology, and they're failing. And they know it, they feel it. And they become violent. They seem to become very violent. On the left, they've rammed vehicles into federal law enforcement, fired sniper rifles at ICE agents. And me, you know, but I was. I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. I turned to the right. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually. He said, how the hell did you make that turn? I said, I don't know. But fired rifles and threatened the lives of our Supreme Court justices, our great justices. They have to be protected. We just issued a lot of money, $60 million to protect the Supreme Court justices. Very important. We can't let anything happen in places of worship. We're protecting our people. We've seen that. A candidate for attorney general in Virginia boasted that he would want to see the Republican legislature, a legislator in Virginia, shot in the head and to see his children murdered. He actually said this. And now he continues to run for office, and most people continue to back him. But he said he wants his man shot. Said shot in the head. And to see his children murdered and they keep running. Pretty amazing, right? That's a bad one. Let's see how that turns out. But that's a really bad one. Nobody's heard that one before. Especially in the wake of Charlie's assassination. Our country must have absolutely no tolerance for this radical left, violence, extremism, and terror. We're done with the angry mobs, and we're done. We're not going to let our cities be unsafe. We're going to make sure our cities are safe. When you have Chicago, where they had 4,000 people murdered over a very short period of time, 4,000 people. And then we have a governor stand up and say, oh, things are going swimmingly. No, they're not. We're going to make Chicago safe, just like we're going to make. Look what we did in D.C. it's so nice that we started here because this was one of the most violent places in the United States. It would be dangerous to be right out here. But you couldn't go to a restaurant. The restaurants were all dying. The whole place was dying. You'd have these gorgeous. Look at the Washington Monument over there. You'd have these gorgeous buildings and monuments and structures, and people were afraid to leave their apartment. They were afraid to go to work. They'd get into an Uber and they'd feel safe. And then the Uber would be attacked. They thought they made it to safety, and then the Uber was attacked on the trip in. But we've done a great job and now it's considered a totally safe city. We haven't had problems. Took us 12 days to make it great. We took out Pam 1700 hard criminals, career criminals in many cases, but these are hardened criminals. Many of them came in through the Biden open borders. We brought them back to the countries and a couple were so violent that we put them in jail. We don't want to take a chance that they could get back in, because no matter how good we do, somebody can sneak in. They were so violent and so, so bad. One arrested 28 times. Every time he left prison, he'd get into a violent incident 28 times. And we put him away for a long time. But we're done with the angry mobs. We're done with it. This is such an unbelievable place right now. You take a look where you can walk down the middle of the street with your wife or your husband, your children can walk, they can walk alone. It doesn't matter. They can walk anywhere in Washington and they're safe now. If this were a year and a half ago, a year ago, they'd have a serious chance of being badly hurt, even killed. Even killed. They'd come in from Indiana, they'd come in from Iowa, they come from Florida to see their nation's capital. And somebody would have to call the parents. I'm sorry, but your son or your daughter has been killed. Not anymore. You hear those sirens going off. That's good. That's a good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're going to stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound because nobody wanted to do anything. Nobody. Listen to the beauty of that sound. Seriously. And that's the real deal. Sirens. They're not politically correct sirens. You hear them? They're about three miles away. That's great. What a beautiful sound. They're stopping crime. That's what they're doing. So we are done with the voices of fools. They're fools and death threats, and we're going to make our cities safe. And I thought it was Charlie's. One of his biggest dreams was that he couldn't believe it. Chicago is going to be a great city again. We've already, you know, we sent people in there six months ago, and this governor said, well, crime is down. Yeah, that's because we had the FBI in there for six months just preparing it for the bigger surge. And They've done a great job. The cash and the FBI, they've done a great job. And they love doing it. You know, they love being able to do it. They were restricted from doing it. They couldn't do anything. And now they're totally unrestricted. They all they have to do is stop crime and they're doing it. By the way, Memphis, as you know, you heard, they went in about a week ago, one of the most dangerous places in the country, really, in the world. It's not just the country. They have very few cities that would compare to some of these cities. You go to Afghanistan, you say, oh, that's unsafe. Well, the crime numbers are much better than the crime numbers in places that we have. So Memphis, I understand, is doing unbelievably in one week, it's like a different place. And this took 12 days. And then after that, we just perfected it. But after 12 days, we had good safety here. After one month, it's like, it's really amazing. And by the way, restaurants are booming. Restaurants are opening up. The big problem we have, you can't get into a restaurant in D.C. anymore. So they're opening up. It's a beautiful thing to see. It's called safety, it's called law enforcement. And letting them do their job. And that's why I said last month that I have directed the Attorney General and the Department of Homeland Security to confront the very real threat of left wing terrorism in our country. It's a real threat. Not when you confront it. It's not, because they're not brave people. In fact, they're cowards. When you confront them, they immediately fold. You have to see them fold. You have to see them crying. They fold. But it includes dismantling the networks that fund them and finance them. And we're finding out who those networks are. We already know quite a few of them. When you see these violent incidents, and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard wood. Everything, everything's perfect paint job. And they're all the same. There are thousands of them. You know that they weren't made in the basement out of love. They were made by anarchists and in some cases wealthy. I'll probably find some of my nice friends that are up there being so nice to me, especially lately. They're being very nice. But it surprises you who they may be and you almost wonder why. Why, why would they do it? But they're hurting our country and we're really taking it back one by one. If we didn't go into Los Angeles. Early on in the administration, the commissioner, the chief of police, Los Angeles, said, if they didn't go in, we would have lost our city. Now, they already lost 25,000 houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. I said, you better do it. They didn't do it. And we had 25,000 homes where they had no water in their sprinklers, they had no water in their fire hydrants. It would have been a different kind of a thing if they did what they were supposed to do. We had a break in. We broke in and had the water come down. They actually, they said, for the environment, it's great. They lost 25,000 houses. It's incredible. But the commissioner said, without the federal government and President Trump's intervention, we would have lost the entire city. And we have the Olympics going there soon. I got the Olympics. We have the Olympics, we have the World cup, and we have, most importantly, we have the 250th anniversary of our country. That's going to be most important. And all of these things are happening, and we're going to have safe cities. We're going to have very, very safe cities. So one month after Charlie's death, we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of his loss. Like just about nobody I can think of, Charlie Kirk was one of a kind. He was unstoppable, and he really was. Boy, when he had an idea in his head, oh, he was. He would call me, sir, please. You haven't done it yet, said Charlie. Relax. Just relax. He didn't relax and called me the next day again. He got it done, but he was, like, indomitable and always will be. He's really irreplaceable. Nobody can replace him, but they're going to do great. But you can't replace that kind of person and that kind of talent. Frankly, the word talent is an important word, but that kind of talent. So we hold his memory in our hearts forever. Every single day of this administration. We will continue to carry out the mission for which he lived. And he really did. He lived for this country. He lived for his wife and his family, but he lived for this country, too. In Charlie's honor, we will continue like we have been, to fight, fight, fight, and to win, win, win. We're going to win so much. So the Presidential Medal of Freedom is a big deal. You have the Congressional Medal of Honor, military and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the. Which is civilian, and the Presidential Medal Freedom is a really big deal. Very few people get it. Very few people, frankly, qualify. It's a decision of the President. But it's a qualification that's a very hard one to get. And I would like to ask, if I might, the military aide to read Charles James Kirk's citation for the Presidential Medal Freedom. Thank you very much. Thank you.