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While the left ups the political violence from Portland to Chicago, a killer with an unknown motive launches a brutal attack on an LDS church in Michigan as the American social order continues to unravel. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Foreign welcome back to the show. Hey, you remember when the FBI said that it had no one present on January 6th? Remember the first the story was the FBI had no one present there and then they said, okay, there were a few dozen agents and assets, but it was no big deal. Anyway. We just found out that The FBI had 275 agents, plainclothes agents, not wearing their uniforms, plain clothes agents in the crowds on January 6, the worst day in the history of this or any republic. We'll get into all those facts that just keep coming out, as well as the corruption of American law enforcement, which is the topic of the day. First, though, I want to tell you about PureTalk. 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And unlike Jimmy Kimmel, we're certainly not gonna lie about his motives. That's all we know so far. There's an investigation going on. We'll find out what it is. Could be anti LDS bigotry, it could be anti religious prejudice, it could be, we don't, it could be left, could be, we don't know. We just don't know. We're not gonna jump to conclusions. All we know that we should do right now is pray for the victims and investigate. That's all that we know. And these are the two responses. And I say that because some people have had other immediate responses, maybe to jump to conclusions. But also one response that I find unfortunate is that some people have decided to respond to this attack by pointing out all of the things that they consider erroneous in the Mormon religion. And it's not that you, obviously you can disagree with lds, but that should not be your first response if that is your first reaction. Cool your jets, slow your roll a little bit is what I would say for a couple reasons. One, it's unseemly, that's not what one does when one is grieving, when there is a tragedy taking place, especially involving one's countrymen. But two, even if your purpose is to evangelize, convert these people, taking the opportunity of a major tragedy in their community to tell them everything you think is wrong with them, it's also probably just not going to work. That's not civilized behavior. That's not the right thing to do. So anyways, we pray for the community and obviously the specific congregation there in Michigan and there needs to follow that with much more investigation and when we know more, we'll talk about it. We do know a little bit more about the motives of some of the other public attacks that have been taking place. For starters, Antifa tried to bomb an ICE facility in Chicago over the weekend. Antifa, the organization, we're told does not exist. Even though it has a flag, even though it has members, even though it has a network, even though it has chapters. We're told by the left it does not exist. Just means you oppose fascism this assemblage of communists and anarchists tried to bomb an ICE facility in Chicago. So according to the Department of Homeland Security, arrests are being made. Eleven violent rioters were arrested last night in Chicago outside the ICE detention facility. These are two guns that were taken off rioters in Chicago. I guess the Chicago gun control's not working that well. Right against the fence at our ICE detention facility. This after a shooting from, by all appearances, a left wing shooter who shot up an ICE facility just days ago. An investigation is underway into what appears to be some sort of explosive device found last night near the ICE Chicago detention facility. No surprise, as I mentioned, just even in my own experience. I was given a talk at the University of Pittsburgh and two antifa agents showed up and threw an explosive at the building, seriously injured a female cop. Many, many other such examples. That one just comes to mind because I was there firsthand. And it's not even just in recent years that the anarchist and communist left has done this. This has been going on for over 100 years. People forget because the mainstream news networks won't cover left wing political violence. Imagine what the history courses teach. But you don't really cover that much anymore in history courses. Way back about 100 years ago, 1919, there was a spate of left wing anarchist violence throughout the country that carried over into 1920. You saw a number of attacks in the early 20th century. Then again, you saw this in the 1960s and 70s with groups like the Weather Underground, the various black power movements, Black Panthers would also set off bombs and murder people, even target civilians in order to further political goals, which is the definition of terrorism. The left has done this many, many times. And the most recent example over the last 10 years or so is antifa. This happens. And so this should be sobering on the one hand, but it also should give us some hope because I know a lot of people are looking at the political violence obviously with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but other political violence in recent years and saying, good grief, is our country just totally falling apart? And the answer is yes, but it's happened before. This is not our first experience with this. And so we can look back to history as a blueprint. What happened after the left wing violence in the 1910s and 1920s? Well, the way we fixed that was we cracked down on it, we recognized it for the threat to order and law that it is, and we arrested a lot of these people. We passed laws that made it easier to identify and target them and, and we got rid of them from the public Square. That's what we have to do again. In the 1960s, our reaction was a little less effective, unfortunately. Yes, some of the left wing radicals were arrested. Yes, they sometimes were sort of prosecuted, but a lot of them ended up being freed in one way or another. In the case of the Weather Underground, the Weather Underground terrorists ended up getting sinecures as university professors, sometimes at public schools. So that was not a good way to respond to this, unfortunately. And it's no surprise then that those people who. I think. Was it Roger Kimball, who called them tenured radicals, those people then educated this generation. And you're seeing left wing violence again. So which way, Western man? What are you gonna do? The only way to stop this is to crack down on them. Happily, that's what Trump is doing. So Trump has mobilized the federal agents, not just the doj, to investigate these people. Not just to classify as antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, but also to deploy the National Guard. So President Trump tweeted out that he was going to be deploying the National Guard to Portland, sends the feds out over there, and these are the exact words. At the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war ravaged Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by antifa and other domestic terrorists. I'm also authorizing full force if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So this is important, you know, to quote George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice. Hey, hey, hey. The point is, you're not going to fool me again. We have seen the attacks on ICE for years now, rhetorically, politically, and also violently, from every level of the left. We've seen it from the goon terrorists on the ground with the bombs, all the way up to the elected officials, all using the same kind of language, that ICE is the Gestapo. That's essentially the only way you can refer to immigration enforcement on msnbc, that ICE is fascistic, that it needs to be dismantled, and on the left, that they need to be to be targeted and killed so there's nothing more the left could do to make clear their opposition to law enforcement. And so the federal government has two options. One, let the left wing anarchists just take over the political order, or two, enforce the law. Trump has chosen the latter. Unfortunately, the liberal politicians have chosen the former. Congress lady Maxine Dexter has posted. We are hearing reports of increased federal agents in Portland. Let me be clear. Trump wants to tell a story of Portland. That does not reflect who we are. By the way, you can see the pictures of Portland in just the last month or two. It looks like a war zone. The Portland we love is strong, compassionate and unwavering in our commitment to protect our neighbors. Except when it involves, like the police arresting criminals. The Portland we love did not ask for federal agents and does not want them. We will not be divided. We are standing strong to protect one another. You're not. You're not protecting one another. You're letting criminals roam your streets and maraud and kill. That's why the federal government is coming in. So you're not standing strong to protect one another. But furthermore, I want to get to this one line. The Portland we love did not ask for federal agents and does not want them. Dad, I don't want to. Dad, I don't want my vegetables. I don't want to do my homework. Dad, that's what this woman's saying. I don't want to enforce the law and protect my constituents. You can't make me. You're not the boss of me, actually. Yes we are. Yes, Trump is. Yes, the federal government is because of this little known provision of our constitutional order, namely the supremacy clause, which says that the federal government exists for a reason. The federal government does not exist merely so that when cities and states want to call them in as a matter of convenience, they can. The federal government exists to give a national quality to our government and to intervene when the states and the cities fail. That's what it's for. And this, I think it might be a corrective even to some people on the right, certainly on the more libertarian right and on the, I don't know, the selfish right which says, you know, if Portland wants to fail, that's fine on them. Let them deal with the consequences. If New York and Chicago want to fail, that's fine. Screw them. We don't care about the poor people who are being brutalized by the left wing ideologues. Who cares what hath Nashville to do with New York? Well, I'll tell you what it has to do with New York. We're all in one country and we share a nation and we share a federal government and the cities and the states have no right to let their cities fail because those are American cities and the people in those cities are American citizens. Well, a lot of them are illegal aliens, but they're Americans. They're within the border of America, many of them at least. And so we have an obligation to them. And that's what Trump is going to do. This is one nation, Trumpism, not the nation of haves and have nots, not the nation of the people who can live in the gated communities and everyone else who has to deal with the terrible policies. No, we're one nation. And the palace is never safe, can never rest easily while the cottage is unhappy. So Trump is going to go in and restore order. We have to restore order. There's this magical thinking that you get on the left and sometimes on the libertarian right, which says that anytime the government actually does something, it can only make things worse. In other words, to say the government does not exist for any reason. This is contrary to the Christian idea of government, which is that the government is put here for our good, that the civil authority is anointed by God and does not bear the sword in vain. That's the Christian and classical understanding of government. The modern liberal, libertarian understanding of government is that it's an unhappy accident that any government exists at all and we need to do everything we can to abolish it. And then the magical hand of the free market will spontaneously restore order. And that just doesn't really happen. And the left capitalizes on the right's belief in that utopian ideology because the left gets into power and wields it for their own ill begotten ideas. And the right gets into power and then does nothing because they feel that it's somehow principled to let America decay. And so then the left advances and the right remains stagnant and constantly on the defensive when we can even muster the courage to defend ourselves. No more. That's not gonna work. You know, the alternative to that is what Giuliani did in New York, which is broken windows policing. The recognition that when you let the little things decay, a lot more decay and violence is going to follow it. We don't want order in Portland. Too bad. You're gonna get it. You're gonna get it. Sorry. Take care of your own city. If you don't, we're gonna take care of it for you. Now, speaking of political violence, one of the biggest stories the FBI caught in yet another lie about about January 6, the worst day in history. We'll get to that in one moment. First though, I want to tell you about one of my favorite companies, Mizzen and Maine. Go to mizzenandmain.com promo code Michael20. 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Ironically, January 6 was not even the worst attack on our democracy of that year. That would, of course, go to blm, which burned federal buildings and killed dozens of people, torched cities across the country. What happened on January 6th is a little bit confusing because there were some people who were creating a little bit of chaos. There were other people who were being allowed into the US Capitol by the Capitol Police. There were other people like Nancy Pelosi who said that it was her fault that she did not call in law enforcement assets to protect the Capitol, that it was her. She took responsibility in a documentary made by her daughter. And then there was the FBI, which said that it had nothing to do with January 6th. Then we found out some years later, okay, well, the FBI had a few dozen people There, some assets. But even the assets who were there, they were just there of their own volition. They just coincidentally happened to be at the Capitol. That's what we were told. And now we find out the FBI acknowledges that it had some more people. Not just a few more people. 275 plainclothes agents in the crowds on January 6th. We found that out. What are we at? We're almost five years now after we were starting to ask about FBI involvement. This is thanks to reporting from the Blaze. Almost five years later, we're finally learning that the story we were told from the FBI was false. Now, the FBI maintains the plainclothes agents went in just to keep the peace. They didn't instigate any trouble. Even when you saw these very suspicious videos of people, multiple people who were not arrested, who were not imprisoned for their actions on January 6, urging people to go into the Capitol. Multiple people of different ages. Ray Epps was a famous case of this. Go in, you gotta go into the Capitol. And people would respond to him and say, no, no, we're not gonna do that. You're a fed, fed, fed. And then mysteriously, they arrest Midwestern grannies for taking selfies in the rotunda. They throw them in solitary. But these guys who incited mobs to go into the Capitol on January, they get off without being arrested, without being harassed at all. Very, very strange. Now, at least, though, the FBI is saying, okay, we had hundreds of people there blending in, but they weren't doing anything nefarious. And the problem is, that could be true. But the fact that the FBI has now lied to us for almost five years means we have no reason to believe that that's true. We have a real credibility problem with federal agencies. It's not that all of a sudden I became an expert on vaccines. That's not why I'm skeptical of some vaccines now. It's not cause I got some degree in epidemiology. It's. It's because the public health officials who I was told to trust lied to me specifically about the COVID vaccine. And so as a result, I can no longer trust them, at least on the topic of vaccines. That's why people have stopped trusting our federal institutions. It's not their fault. The epistemological crisis, using a lot of fancy E words, epidemiological, epistemological. But on the crisis of how do we even know things at all? It's really not the fault of the rubes and the hoi polloi and all of us out here who don't have fancy degrees. It's the fault of the experts who lied to us. When we don't have a ton of faith in our federal bureaucrats, that's not our fault. Blame the FBI, which lied to us for almost five years. Which is why. Which is why it is so important to hold corrupt FBI officials accountable. And this brings us to one of the biggest stories that the libs are yapping about today. The indictment of James Comey. James Comey, the former FBI director. We are told that the indictment of James Comey, which just happened days ago, represents a collapse and a decay of our federal government. Au contraire, me frere. Au contraire. It's the opposite. The problem we have right now is we don't have faith in our federal agencies. The reason is they lied to us, including and especially the FBI. We want to get back to a place where we can have trust in our federal agencies and our federal government. We, in fact, have to get back to that place if we're to have a functioning political order. There's a step in the middle. There's an intermediate step. The intermediate step is we have to hold to account the corrupt people who squandered the agency's credibility. Which is why the indictment of James Comey is not merely. Just not the greatest upset in our federal government. It's not merely that. It's just not that bad. It's that it is positively good for the purpose of restoring credibility to the agencies. Why is Comey indicted? Comey's indicted because allegedly he lied. Comey gave false statements. Allegedly. This is what he's charged with. And obstruction of a congressional proceeding. 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Wall Street Journal says Justice Department officials are racing to obtain criminal charges this week against former FBI Director James Comey, escalating President Trump's unprecedented efforts to prosecute his political foes. Oh, really? President Trump's unprecedented efforts to prosecute his political foes. I actually guess technically that's true. The efforts are unprecedented when they come from Donald Trump. Donald Trump has never prosecuted his political foes before. But if you're saying that prosecuting one's political foes is unprecedented, I would encourage the Wall Street Journal to do a cursory investigation of the entire last four years from the Democrats. Do you recall that people like Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows and John Eastman and many, many people who worked for Donald Trump were indicted by the Democrats, by Joe Biden and. Oh, and who? Oh, right. Trump was also prosecuted four times over and had the FBI sicked on his home, raided his home at Mar a Lago by Joe Biden. In that case, by the way, it was not even just a president prosecuting his predecessor, which was unprecedented. It was also the president prosecuting his chief political rival, because President Trump's nomination in 2024 was essentially a fait accompli. Joe Biden knew that Joe Biden wanted to run for a second term, and so he decided he was gonna wield the government to prosecute his chief and really only rival. Unprecedented. I generally like the Wall Street Journal. I think they got a read. They must have missed the last four years, didn't they? What about cnn? CNN headline can't make it up why? The Comey indictment is different from the Biden DOJ's indictment of Trump. So at least CNN, unlike the Journal apparently CNN recognizes. Okay, well, we look pretty bad cuz Democrats just spent the last four years prosecuting all of the Republicans, including Trump, so we can't really say it's unprecedented. Okay, we're just gonna say this is different. How's it different? This is what CNN writes. Whatever one thinks of the decisions to indict a then former president. Pause. And chief political rival. Don't forget that part. Whatever one thinks of the decision to indict then former president, this is a major escalation in Trump's ongoing politicization of the justice system and broader weaponization of government. Said contra. No, it's not. What are you talking about? Look, whatever you think about when Joe Biden did a much worse version of what Trump is doing, this is unprecedented. No, it's not. That's called a non sequitur. What are you talking about? What Trump is doing is different in two fronts. I'll tell you how. In my view, it's different, because what Trump is doing is justified and what the Democrats did was not justified. Now, I know that some reasonable minds may vary on that. People might let a little partisanship creep in and they'll say, well, no, no, no, what the Democrats did was justified and what the Republicans are doing is unjustified. Again, I think that's wrong. I would be happy to have that argument, but let's just put that aside for a second. What the Democrats did was throw spaghetti at the wall to try to imprison the former president and chief leader of the opposition and virtually everyone around him on anything. What Trump is doing is holding one man accountable, one particularly corrupt man, accountable for one thing that he allegedly did, one or two things that he allegedly did. What Trump is doing is restrained. And by the way, that man is not the chief political rival. He was an apparatchik of the government and a man who politicized not only a federal agency, but law enforcement in particular. Which means it's particularly egregious. This is after Barack Obama weaponized his federal agencies when he turned the IRS into a machine to target right wing groups to try to give himself an advantage in the election. We could go on and on and on relitigating all this. It's the Democrats who started it, it's the Democrats who escalated it. President Trump's indictment of Comey is, if anything, a de escalation. If Trump indicted Obama and Biden, even that would not be an escalation. It would be matching what the Democrats did to him. But in this case, merely indicting an allegedly corrupt and lying FBI director is actually a de escalation. The fact that that's the case shows you just how much the Democrats perverted the government. Here is Stephen Miller on what this all means.