Well, Trump is angrying a lot of people. As per SOP, because it turns out that he is once again invoking what is actually his constitutional right as president of the United States to federalize law enforcement within D.C.

Now, he says he is doing this in order to combat a growing crime spree. There's actually been a lot of high-profile assaults taking place in D.C. as of late.

However, D.C. as of late.

However, D.C. is hit back with, no, no, violent crime overall is down over 20 percent, and there's absolutely no need to do this. But what is really shocked a lot of people was that Trump hinted

at the idea that the processes that he is using and that he is constitutionally authorized to use

in D.C. right now may be extended

to other cities which are dealing with crime. And this has got a lot of people speculating

on whether or not Trump is vastly exceeding the authority he has as president of the United States.

Well, in the meantime, many other people are cheering this on is this sort of thing that they voted for.

We're going to discuss all of that and more from the multiple perspectives. We're going to take a look at the data and we're going to come to our own conclusions about whether or not this is a constitutional action and an appropriate one given the situation on the ground. All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument. I'm your host, Nick Fradis, back in the studio and back with me the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the Bees. Hello, everyone. We were gone to see our son Luke graduate from infantry training and is now going through Ranger assessment. So pray for Luke, pray for Luke. And then, of course, we have our resident historian, our political prognosticator, the Oracle of Virginia, and first time homeowner just closed the deal today. Christian Hines, how you doing, man? You ruined it. The next episode was supposed to be the one where we reveal that I bought the house, not this one. Oh, sorry. Well, we'll re-reveal it. Forget everything I just said. And never mind, Christian doesn't have a home. In fact, I'm not even sure he's a citizen. I'm homeless currently. Is that better? Yeah. Actually, we're taking applications for his future wife now. That's right. Now that he's got a place to put her. Not the basement. She gets to be in the master bedroom. All right. I'll tell you where I did not buy a house though. Where? Washington, D.C. No, no.

Why would you?

One, it's unaffordable.

And two, if it is affordable, it's probably crime-ridden.

I've actually had people ask me like, Nick, you spent a lot of time in D.C. How bad has it gotten? I like to say, well, it's gotten so bad that I, Nick Freitas, a guy that believes that we should barely have a federal government actually believes that

the federal government taking over a city will make it safer and better.

Like that's, that's where it's gotten.

But look, there are some interesting statistics that have recently been put out with respect

to what crime has been doing in DC as of late.

And so we're going to go in and get to analyzing that.

But before that, I want to make sure that we all understand

that one of the ways that we research for all this

is we use our good friends at Ground News.

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