Mid-Day Update: August 28, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
John Fawcett breaks down today's top stories, including President Trump's teasing plans to federalize Chicago amidst rising crime rates, the aftermath of a tragic mass shooting in Minneapolis, and the political fallout from California Governor Gavin Newsom's recent press conference. Also delve into the legal troubles of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who has admitted to document manufacturing in her mortgage fraud case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawc with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday, August 28th. |
| 0:05.3 | President Trump may have his eye on a new city that may need to be federalized. President Trump |
| 0:10.9 | this afternoon teasing plans to takeover Chicago, Illinois, amid his ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C. |
| 0:17.9 | President Trump and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker have been going back and forth over crime in |
| 0:21.9 | Chicago as President Trump is now threatening to send in the National Guard. Pritzker has accused Donald |
| 0:27.6 | Trump of attempting to, quote, occupy a U.S. city, punish its dissidents and score political points, |
| 0:33.8 | calling the potential deployment unconstitutional and un-American and a dangerous power grab. |
| 0:40.1 | President Trump says that's not the case. |
| 0:41.8 | He says residents are desperate for the need to stop crime, something the Democrats aren't |
| 0:46.4 | capable of doing. |
| 0:48.0 | Quote, Governor Pritzker has six murders in Chicago this weekend. |
| 0:51.5 | 20 people were shot. |
| 0:53.3 | Stay tuned, says President Trump. Per CBS, |
| 0:56.9 | six people were killed and 27 injured over the shootings over the weekend. The victims aged |
| 1:02.3 | from 5 to 48 years old. President Trump making America great again, making America safe again. |
| 1:10.1 | In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at that Catholic Church in Minneapolis, |
| 1:14.6 | where two young children were gunned down and 17 other wounded during that mass shooting, |
| 1:19.5 | CNN anchor Jake Tapper has sparked outrage by focusing on, quote, |
| 1:24.0 | the correct pronouns for the deranged transgender shooter. |
| 1:29.7 | The depraved male shooter born Robert Paul Westman, but legally changed his name to Robin M. |
| 1:35.7 | Westman in 2020 began identifying as a female. |
| 1:39.6 | Of course, on Wednesday, this sick, sick man opened fire outside the church window, targeting helpless children and parishioners inside. |
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