TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024
He does make one small error: Crime is way down, the DrumCat says. His headline makes an even larger claim—and it includes an error:
Crime is way down everywhere
In fact, crime is way up in one jurisdiction. As every viewer knows, violent crime is way, way up on the Fox News Channel!
Fuller disclosure: The DrumCat's post cites the FBI. That's no longer done on Fox!
ReplyDeleteSo, is the Fox News Channel correct or DrumCat?
Also: does the FBI ever cite the Fox News Channel?
There are crime stats available for every city in the US. Look up your own residence and then check it against national averages or big cities. It may surprise you, one way or the other. Also notice that rates for different types of crimes vary.
Delete"does the FBI ever cite the Fox News Channel?"
DeleteIt's against policy to comment on active investigations.
That may be because in places like California, people no longer bother to file police complaints - nothing is ever done and even if the perp is caught it will be a slap on the wrist plea bargain
ReplyDeleteMaybe, anything is possible.
DeleteThere’s no credible evidence for that claim, though. As someone who lives in CA and whose family works in LE, I can attest that anecdotally that claim is utter nonsense.
Life is pretty good in CA, and we are the largest and most significant state, being not just the economy that drives America, we alone are also the 5th largest economy in the world.
Naturally, this engenders some jealousy from those that do not live in CA.
I lived in CA most of my life and not only didn't suffer any crime myself but didn't know anyone who did. Car accidents are more frequent though. If the place were as crime ridden as David suggests, you'd think it would be more of an issue there, but it isn't. People are not afraid and it is a pleasant place to live.
DeleteThen why is it so many things are locked up in a shelf when you go to the CVS store? How many people have their windows broken when they park their car in SF?
DeleteI was just at CVS, mainly the only thing locked up are cigarettes.
DeleteI have parked my car in SF hundreds of times, never had a broken window.
Sorry Charlie, CA is really nice and safe, you'll just have to cope with your jealousy.
Why is is that housing in San Francisco, with its San Francisco values, is so expensive?
DeleteAsking for a Capitalist, who is confused by "supply and demand" in only this particular case.
Trump is the biggest motivator for voting for Biden.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/poll-trump-biden-neck-and-neck-06-09-2024/
That is probably true. If Republicans had the balls to convict Trump after Jan 6, when they had a chance, they'd be out of the predicament in which they find themselves. There's a moral here somewhere. I wish I could discern it.
DeleteIlya 4:36pm, why would you think that Republicans should have waited till 1/6 when they could have convicted Trump in 2017 and cut out Mueller as the middle man?
DeleteJan 6 proceedings were the most viable opportunity. They were connected to an event that shocked most of the country. That was their best chance.
DeleteIIya, there’s a flaw in your logic that you’re overlooking from jump here, but what charge could they have brought against Trump for 1/6 that Democrats couldn’t have brought?
DeleteCecelia,
DeleteI am talking about the second impeachment, which fell ten votes short of conviction in the senate -- correct? As I recall, 57 senators voted to convict Trump. Had another 10 had good sense to join them, they -- and more importantly the rest of us -- would've been rid of Trump forever.
Ilya, one way or another.
DeleteI'm gonna find ya
DeleteI'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya
There is no doubt in my mind that there were 10 Republicans who would put the country before their party. After all, Republicans aren't a monolith, and there are 74 million of them. But all 10 being Senators? Not a chance.
DeleteCecilia, here's hoping you get motivated that way by the ex-POTUS multiple felon.
ReplyDeleteCrime is down compared to when?
ReplyDeleteAnd what happens when you look at Dem cities like Chicago?
And isn’t crime far higher in dem cities than elsewhere?
No, in fact the highest crime rates are in small to mid sized cities in red states, like Alabama and Tennessee.
DeleteAnd not just crime, they also have the highest rates of immoral or antisocial behavior like divorce and STIs etc.
We went to Chicago for two weeks not so long ago and were not mugged, robbed or killed. We had a nice time seeing the sights. People living there were just like normal people anywhere. I saw more crime in New Orleans, where a hooker dropped her purse, spilling all of her money on the street, then her male accomplices helped her pick it all up.
DeleteAre there cities that are not "Dem cities"? More importantly, David, why don't you look it up and tell us.
DeleteChicago is great, always have a nice time there, always feel safe. Amazing museums and good food, lots of things to do there, and people are friendly.
DeleteIf the trend continues, 2024 will have the largest single year drop in crime rate.
DeleteCrime rate peaked in the early 90's, after Reagan's particularly pernicious neoliberalism wreaked havoc in the US.
Since then crime rate has been trending down, aside from the Covid bump, and is now at a 50 year low.
Crime is primarily driven by poverty (specifically inequality) and other forms of oppression like racism.
Attempting to push a false narrative about crime to gain power is immoral and bad for society. For those so inclined, it would be better to find out the source of your rotten urges and work on that instead of externalizing your pain onto others, making others suffer for your own sins.
First of all, a very cogent argument against these crime statistics can be made by considering the source. Does anyone trust the FBI anymore? But more to the point, the massive influx of criminals to states in the Southeast is clearly reflected by crime statistics which do not require fact checking beyond what we have been told by Donald Trump and his cult following. It goes without saying, and certainly not needing verification, that the criminal element that we all should fear crossing our borders has resulted in a spike in crime, especially violent crime, during the Biden administration. So Ilya, we won't be needing DIC to scour the internet for verification of what is intuitively obvious to anyone paying a shred of attention here. There is such a thing as common sense. The waters are muddied by this so called data.
Deletehttps://jasher.substack.com/
DeleteThe data collected by none other than Texas law enforcement indicates that most crimes in Texas have been on a steady decline for years, including violent crime and theft. Which makes absolutely zero sense. What's with these illegals? We are in the grips of a massive influx of bad people, the criminal element, down there. Is Texas still a border state? Somebody's got some 'splaining to do or Governor Abbott will need to fire the crime statisticians down there like DeSantis did with that chick who had the temerity to contradict his common sense narrative by compiling hospital death statistics. What other choice does he have?
David is worried about crime and supports a convicted felon who is under federal indictment for lying to the FBI and suborning perjury from his underlings. You have no shame, David. None.
DeleteIs crime on Wall Street really down, or did we stop enforcing our laws there?
DeleteIt looks like David in Cal refuses to use the internet unless looking for some tidbit of misinformation to bring to the table here. So he won’t be looking up crime statistic trends anytime soon.
DeleteNY, NY Jax, FL USA
DeleteViolent Crime 28.2 33.9 22.7
Prop Crime 24.9 52.9 35.4
Trump might skip the debate.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-hannity-asks-if-it-would-be-wise-donald-trump-just-pass-first-debate
The debate is a trap for Trump, he will come off looking bad, better for Trump to skip it, better for Biden if Trump goes through with it.
DeleteHaving said that, you'll never see Trump skip, as in hop along, physically he just can not do it, plus it would likely cause an earthquake, but it is amusing to imagine him trying.
I bet the strategy is to allow more time for the right's portrayal of Biden to spread further into the national consciousness, before the debate shows it to be a lie.
DeleteIf Trump, instead of there being videos of him waving to nonexistent crowds, put out a video of him skipping happily along, he might actually win this thing.
DeleteWon't happen, though.
The thing is, the suggestion that Trump skip the debate was put out by Sean Hannity, who was likely talking off the top of his head. The guy has a right to his opinions, but once in a while you might think he would be in contact with the Trump organization or Trump himself to get their take on such matters. Instead he shows up on TV and makes this wild suggestion, which I assume has blindsided Trump and his people. Geez. I’m not saying he should coordinate his narrative with the Trump people or anything like that. That would never happen, but c’mon, he shouldn’t be putting this random idea out into the cable airspace without vetting the idea with the Trump people. Sometimes you can get yourself into trouble by being so independent.
DeleteHardly anyone thinks Trump will actually participate in a debate against Biden. Just like no one expected that Trump would testify in the hush money trial, despite Trump's repeated claims that he would.
DeleteSomeone linked to this earlier. Should be mandatory reading for all Americans. This is some - just SOME - of the societal disorder that Trump has created, and it will get way worse if he wins:
ReplyDeletehttps://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-future-is-terror
I'm pasting most of the text below, but the original has some graphics that complement the text.
"Far more than his first and second campaigns, Trump has made vengeance the central theme of his re-election platform, even reposting an wordcloud analysis of his campaign speeches that highlighted this theme.
Trumpism hastened a new version of right-wing politics, one that is not conservative nor libertarian in a meaningful sense, but one that urges the embrace of state power to go after their movement’s perceived enemies.
Terror is chiefly directed towards public officials who stand in the way of Trump’s goals and interests. These include other politicians, educators, public health officials, election officials, judges, and other parts of law enforcement.
In recent testimony, Anthony Fauci discussed how even a year after leaving the public sector, he has to maintain a permanent security detail shadowing him, given credible death threats against him and his family. Here is an example of of a threat that election officials, who lack such security protection, are routinely receiving:
The entire nation is coming for you. And we will stop, at no end, until you are in the ground. You’re a traitor to this nation. … You just signed your own death warrant. Get your affairs in order, cause your days are very short.
The examples are scattered, but too numerous not to see a consistent pattern.
A survey by the National League of Cities, found that 8 of 10 local election officials reported experiencing harassment, threats and violence, while 9 out of 10 see the situation as getting worse.
A Princeton review of threats against local officials found that death threats are the most frequent type of threat recorded, representing 58% of all threats. The most frequent form of harassment was an invasion of privacy, which includes doxing, stalking, targeting friends or family members.
In 2021 there were no bomb threats reported by members of the American Library Association. In 2022 there were two. In 2023 there were 32.
Almost four in ten of local election officials report threats, harassment, or abuse, more than one in two worry about safety of colleagues and staff, and three in ten worry about the safety of families and loved ones.
The US Marshals service has reported a massive increase in serious threats against federal judges between 2021 to 2024, as Trump’s legal woes escalated. The head of this unit notes that “we would see a noticeable uptick in threats directed at whatever judge had the case” when Trump was in court.
I could go on with more examples, but I want to consider the implications for the future of terror becoming an ongoing feature of American political life, one that is especially targeted at public officials. There are eight lessons that stand out.
Lesson 1: Terror is Used to Subvert Legal Accountability
When Senate Republicans refused to indict Trump for encouraging a mob to storm the Capitol in a bid to intimidate public officials into overturning the election, they promised that the legal system would hold him accountable. The problem is that the legal system is deeply wary of Trump’s ability to intimidate public officials.
The FBI petitioned a judge to stop Trump from lying that its employees were ready to use lethal force against him. This is not an unreasonable concern on the part the FBI. After the Mar-A-Lago raid, a Trump supporter wrote on Trump’s social media platform wrote “Violence is not (all) terrorism. Kill the F.B.I. on sight” before attempting to do precisely that at a FBI field office. Right-wing media then printed the names of the FBI agents. [cont. below]
"Within the space of a couple of weeks, three officials who challenged Trump in some fashion in court were victims of swatting: the Maine Secretary of State who sought to remove him from the state ballot, the judge presiding over his election interference case (who was placed under 24-hour protection), and special counsel Jack Smith. In Colorado, state supreme court justices that ruled that Trump should not appear on the state ballot faced four “swatting” attempts. Another judge in a different Trump case faced a bomb threat. The family of Michael Cohen, a key witness against Trump, was doxxed.
DeleteTrump had attacked them all. It is part of a broader pattern of threats directed towards people involved in the legal system. The fact that a jury found him guilty occurred despite the shadow of intimidation, where Trump supporters have tried to dox them and issued violent threats, is a somewhat remarkable affirmation of the fearlessness of citizens.
Judges, including Republicans, directly point to Trump as the reason for the wave of threats they now face. One former Republican judicial appointee and Ohio State Supreme Court Judge said that Trump “gave permission by his actions and words for others to come forward and talk about judges in terms not just criticizing their decisions, but disparaging them and the entire judiciary.” Another Republican-appointed federal judge took the extraordinary step of going on CNN to denounce the threats, after Trump had attacked the daughter of another judge: “if we don’t have a viable court system that’s able to function efficiently, then we have tyranny.” (A Trump supporter then filed an ethics complaint against the judge in order to “send a very clear message” to judges who speak out about Trump’s role in feeding intimidation).
Lesson 2: Terror Provides a Means of Control Over Officials Trump Has No Authority Over
Terror provides a basis of control over individuals that Trump has no direct authority over using tools such as intimidation or outright threats. Just as Robespierre and other authoritarians could call upon “the people” and assume that militant supporters would act, Trumpism out-of-office has looked to non-democratic tools to reshape politics and regain power. Many of his targets are state or local officials (such as judges and election officials). An analysis by NBC news shows that Trump strategically times his social media attacks on judges or agencies when they seek to hold him accountable for wrongdoing.
This gives Trump an extra lever of influence over these officials since he knows his followers will respond with more overt threats of violence. Trump can make allusions to his ability to call upon terror as a bargaining chip, such as his claim that it would be a “breaking point” for the public if he received any meaningful sentence for his conviction.
Lesson 3: Terror Will Be a Feature of American Public Life Regardless of The Election Outcome, But Worse if Trump wins.
Trump has primed his supporters and much of the Republican Party to refuse to accept that any electoral loss is legitimate. Searching for alternative explanations involves conspiracies, which requires vilification of election officials, judges or other parts of the “deep state.”
While Trump losing will feed conspiracy mongering and intimidation, it is, I believe a lesser threat than Trump winning, which will marry informal terror and state power. Trump has repeatedly shown a willingness to use state power to punish his perceived enemies, and has primed a second administration of lackeys willing to do so. For example, Trump allies have prioritized using federal law to prosecute Alvin Bragg, for prosecuting Trump. Even if such as case does not end up imprisoning Bragg, the point is to create a sense of fear to discourage any officials from pursuing Trump. [cont. below]
"Trumpism has normalized abuses of state power by treating efforts to hold Trump accountable as outrageous. Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s most trusted advisers, asked: “Is every House committee controlled by Republicans using its subpoena power in every way it needs to right now? Is every Republican D.A. starting every investigation they need to right now?” Some are doing so. For example, Jim Jordan has targeted misinformation researchers with subpoenas, which in turn makes universities think twice about whether they want the political headaches and legal costs of such research. “The people that benefit from the spread of disinformation have effectively silenced many of the people that would try to call them out,” said Kate Starbird, one of the researchers targeted.
DeleteWe have not seen what a full press of government resources could do to threaten dissenters into silence. Trump expressed a willingness to invoke the Insurrection Act, use the IRS to investigate his enemies, and remove any independence from the Department of Justice and their prosecution decisions. Former intelligence officials believe it is highly plausible that Trump will turn intelligence agencies on his political enemies.
Lesson 4: Trump and Others Have Created a Culture of Permission for Terror
Trump has pledged to pardon January 6 rioters convicted of crimes. Half of the judges overseeing January 6 trials have reported increased threats and harassment, and the mother of a police officer assaulted by rioters was swatted after the officer labeled Trump as an authoritarian. In recent weeks, Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a man who talked about killing anti-racist protestors, and then did exactly that.
Such actions create a permission structure that those who seek to impose terror will be protected from the consequences. For example:
One Jan. 6 defendant who already served time in prison for his role in the Capitol attack also weighed in on X, posting a photo of [District Attorney] Bragg and a photo of a noose. “January 20, 2025 traitors Get The Rope,” he wrote, referring to the date of the next presidential inauguration...."
Lesson 6: Authoritarian Regimes Depend Upon Threats to Enrich Themselves and Maintain Power
In a political system where money is a legal and unlimited way to curry favor, campaign donations could effectively become protection money. For example, Trump told oil executives that it would be in their interests to donate $1 billion to him at a fundraiser. Such extortions might be legal, but they blur the line between fundraising, on the one hand, and a combination of corruption and threat on the other.
Tom Edsall quotes Samuel Issacharoff, a professor of constitutional law at N.Y.U.:
Trump governs in a swirl of corruption and intimidation. Everyone knows this and understands that in such regimes, proximity to power is key to government largess. In oligarchic regimes we see this in the sheer population concentrations in the capital city. Here, aspirants flock to Mar-a-Lago.
Stable democracies rely on institutions. Fragile democracies have poorly formed institutions. Unfortunately, the new populist wave sees the unwinding of institutions in favor of personalist rule. One cannot afford to be distant from the heart of power when perks are doled out on a one-by-one basis by cronies of the top commander of the country. [cont. below]
Lesson 7: Under Terror, The Quality Of Government Will Decline
DeletePublic sector work is a bundle of pluses and minuses. In its current format, it is attractive to people who favor stable work, and have high public service motivation. But in the context of politicization and terror, many of those people will leave. And who will replace them? In general people with less qualifications and dedication (since you are drawing from a narrower candidate pool), and in some cases, those people who believe in the conspiracy theories that has given rise to threats.
The quality of public services will decline. If you want to see a microcosm of this in action, look at Republican election officials who are being forced from their jobs for following the law and telling the truth.
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Lesson 8: Most of Us Will Not Resist Terror
The fearful hypocrite becomes a more prominent character in political life under terror. Members of the Republican Party, right wing media, and business interests who once denounced Trump now embrace him or remain silent. Some privately express concerns they will not attach their names to when talking to reporters.
It is easy to be disgusted by such hypocrisy. But this is not just opportunism. It is partly fear. These officials generally can’t afford to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Mitt Romney spent on security. They are aware of Trump’s comfort with using public power to engage in retribution.
They are also a preview of how most of us, including those who hold no affection for Trump, will behave when we have to consider if they want to be publicly attacked for saying the wrong thing, if we worry about our addresses being put online in a society where guns are more plentiful than people, if we don’t want our family to be singled out for our actions.
Living in fear is traumatic. Under terror, most of us wilt. That is why it is so effective.
Faced with such harassment many will choose to withdraw, or more carefully manage their statements and actions. They will prioritize physical and psychological safety over doing what they believe to be the right thing. Such a decision may be understandable from an individual perspective, but it is a disaster from a collective point of view, since it implies that public officials will be too scared to tell the public the truth..."
Republicans spent years demonizing Muslims, but it turns out the biggest terrorist threat we have is from White Christian right wing extremists.
DeleteAnd they are not playing around.
Increasingly, they see the biblical Jesus as a woke wuss - helping the poor, the underclass, and the working class inherit the earth; their real "Jesus" is Trump, a gluttonous and greedy pig that only thinks of himself and uses others for his personal benefit.
The "religion" of Evangelicals is bigotry.
DeleteLesson 4: Trump and Others Have Created a Culture of Permission for Terror
DeleteThere are at least several mass shootings that can be directly connected to Trump's reckless incendiary rhetoric.
Man who killed 23 at El Paso Walmart pleads guilty to hate crimes
Jury Recommends Sentence of Death for Pennsylvania Man Convicted for Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
2022 Buffalo shooting:
Gendron is reported to have written a manifesto describing himself as an ethno-nationalist and a supporter of white supremacy who is motivated to commit acts of political violence. He voiced support for the far-right "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory in the context of a "white genocide". The attack has been described as an act of domestic terrorism,
Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate aftermath of physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.
ReplyDelete"According to the CPRC, one factor contributing to the ostensible dip in violent crime is that almost 40% of local law enforcement agencies are no longer transmitting their information to the national Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database. In “2021, 37% of police departments stopped reporting crime data to the FBI (including large departments for Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York),”"
"Another factor that undermines the official narrative of less crime is the degree of non-reporting or underreporting of crime by victims. "
"The CPRC summary of NCVS data states that in 2022 (the most recent survey available), only “42% of violent crimes, such as robberies or aggravated assaults, and 32% of property crimes, such as burglary or arson, were reported [to police]… the [NCVS] shows that total violent crime—reported and nonreported—rose from 16.5 incidents to 23.5 per 1,000 people. Nonreported violent crime in 2022 exceeded the five-year average between 2015 to 2019 by more than 17%.”"
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20240506/the-state-of-crime-a-steep-decline-or-another-bidenesque-wild-story
Yet people still want to fund the police. Go figure.
DeleteLos Angeles may not be reporting its crime stats to the FBI, but it is still reporting them to the public:
Deletehttps://mayor.lacity.gov/news/lapd-releases-end-year-crime-statistics-city-los-angeles-2023
It shows that crime is down by large amounts, as Drum claims:
"Homicides
In 2023, there were 327 homicides, which was a 17% reduction in homicides as compared to 2022. All geographic Bureaus within the LAPD saw a reduction in homicides.
Operations - South Bureau experienced the largest decrease at 23% fewer homicides in 2023 as compared to 2022.
The homicide clearance rate City-wide average was at 76% with Operations - West Bureau leading the Department at a 95% clearance rate. Operations - South Bureau had an 81% clearance rate followed by Operations - Valley Bureau at 80% and Operations- Central Bureau at a 64% clearance rate.
Violent Crimes
Citywide Violent Crimes showed a 3.2% decrease in 2023 compared to 2022; however, Citywide Part 1 Crimes showed a 1.9% increase from 2022. Citywide, there was a decrease of 10% (-127) in victims shot in 2023 compared to 2022.
Operations - Central Bureau had the largest decrease of 14% (-65) in victims shot in 2023 compared to 2022.
A catalyst to this decrease in shooting victims was in part to 8,154 firearms seized by the LAPD. The LAPD identified 1,232 of those seized as “ghost guns.” This is 474 fewer than the 1,706 ghost guns identified in 2022, a decrease of 28%."
DeleteSo, why did 37% of police departments stop reporting crime data to the FBI in 2021? Inquiring minds want to know.
And what's the value of FBI crime stats if 37% of police departments do not report crime data to the FBI? Seems like the Fox News Channel is a much more credible source.
Ask them. How should I know? And why would Fox News have stats if the FBI doesn't? Contact your local city and see what their stats show. Contact all of the major blue cities and look at their stats. They have them available for the public. You don't have to rely on Fox or the FBI. Do a little homework, if you are so damned sure crime is up.
Delete"And why would Fox News have stats if the FBI doesn't?"
DeleteBecause they are a media company. They do a little homework. So that I don't have to.
And, hopefully, they do their homework without relying on authorities. Especially on single-party Democrat apparatus in single-party Democrat cities.
Unfortunately, Fox spreads disinformation and thus cannot be trusted. That's why you need to do your own homework in order to figure out who CAN be trusted and then watch them, instead of passing along the crap you hear on Fox.
DeleteLook how easy it was to disconfirm what you said about large cities and crime!
"So, why did 37% of police departments stop reporting crime data to the FBI in 2021? "
DeleteMore importantly, why do we give them qualified immunity?
Funny, I didn't notice any "disconfirming". As for Fox, if a Soros bot tells me it can't be trusted, that's the best endorsement.
DeleteSo, we'll have to agree to disagree on this, I'm afraid.
And yet you can't get good info from Fox.
Delete"Crime analyst Jeff Asher cautions that while the FBI data for 2024 shows a "massive decline in crime across the board," it is "extremely preliminary with agencies having months to report new incidents and correct problems." Still, the initial data shows such a steep decline that "crime almost certainly declined nationally in the first three months of 2024 compared to the first three months of 2023," likely by "a healthy amount."
DeleteThe FBI data is consistent with data from cities which shows murder in 2024 is down 18.3% compared to the same period last year. Many large cities are experiencing even sharper declines, including Baltimore (-41%), Philadelphia (-41%), San Francisco (-36%), Phoenix (-29%), Detroit (-25%), and Washington, DC (-24%)."
Oddly, large cities ARE included in this FBI data! The idea that the FBI is fudging numbers comes directly from Trump.
https://popular.info/p/the-most-important-crime-statistics?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=brgvh&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
This is why the right wing is attacking the FBI:
Delete"House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed recently to punish the FBI, as did Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Judiciary Committee chair, because they are furious over Trump's conviction by a New York City jury in a case that did not involve the FBI at all. For many months following the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, where he had concealed national security documents that he refused to surrender, a growing chorus of Republican legislators has sought punitive action against the bureau, which suffered substantial cuts in the most recent federal budget.
"DEFUND THE FBI," tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a theme that she has repeated countless times. "We must save America. We must destroy the FBI," echoed Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who may worry that the bureau maintains a bulging file on his Nazi-adjacent activities and open advocacy of violence. Greene and Gosar were simply following orders of their maximum leader Trump, who urged Congress to "DEFUND THE FBI AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT" after he was indicted for stealing classified documents and attempting a coup to overturn the 2020 election."
https://www.alternet.org/gop-fbi/
Probably should not cite the corrupt NRA as a source.
DeleteSamuel Alito's punishment for being a piece of shit is his wife.
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