David Rutherford Show: ICE vs Activists: Why Are Democrats Protecting Criminals?
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
📍What’s happening in Minneapolis isn’t random. In this episode of The David Rutherford Show, former Navy SEAL David “Rut” Rutherford breaks down the ICE surge operations, the activist networks mobilizing against them, and why the public is being manipulated into thinking federal law enforcement is “fascism.”
Rut explains the scale of illegal immigration since 2012, how sanctuary politics has intensified conflict, and why the activist machine is pushing confrontation in the streets. He also walks through federal law covering interference with federal officers, the claims of coordinated “counterinsurgency” tactics, and the question no one wants to answer: why protect criminal illegal immigrants from deportation?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Trump and ICE versus revolutionaries and activists today on the David Rutherford show. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to the show, everybody. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm your host, David Rutherford, former Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and world championship performance coach. |
| 0:29.3 | And today I want to talk about what's going on in Minneapolis. |
| 0:34.9 | Now, obviously, everything that I'm seen on social media, whether it's X or |
| 0:43.8 | Instagram or YouTube, this is the end of the world, right? We are, we are moments away from Civil War. We are moments away from Civil War. |
| 0:56.7 | We're moments away from active gun battles taking place in the Twin Cities. |
| 1:02.8 | We're moments away from the collapse of the American Republic. |
| 1:10.3 | And all I have to say is fucking slow your role, all right? |
| 1:15.2 | Everybody take a breath. |
| 1:17.9 | The reality of the situation is there is an active federal, full-blown operation taking place not only in Minnesota, but all across the country. |
| 1:35.1 | And it's not whimsical. |
| 1:37.8 | It's not fascism. |
| 1:39.6 | It's not Naziism. |
| 1:41.1 | It's not any of that. |
| 1:43.3 | It is a coordinated effort as a result of the election of |
| 1:48.4 | 2024 where the primary thing that Trump campaigned on was closing the border and deporting. |
| 1:57.8 | I mean, I'll talk about numbers here in a second, but the millions of illegal immigrants that have flooded into the country in the last 20-plus years, all right? |
| 2:09.3 | And the other side of that is there is a coordinated activist slash revolutionary effort to condemn, disrupt, and in many cases, hurt physically and the actual impact against the activities conducted by ICE federal agents to hurt them, |
| 2:39.8 | to docks them, threats against their families, threats against them, |
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