Murder Rate Plummets-Trump Literally Saving Lives plus Disastrous Jack Smith Testimony
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
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Summary
1. Crime Statistics Under the Trump Administration (as claimed in the text)
- Murder rates dropped ~20% nationwide from 2024 to 2025.
- Cities cited with major decreases:
- Chicago: –30%
- New York City: –20%
- Birmingham: –49%
- Albuquerque: –32%
- Baltimore: –31%
- Atlanta: –26%
- Oakland: –33%
- Washington, D.C.: –31% (after National Guard deployment)
- Other crimes that have decreased in 2025:
- Motor vehicle theft: –25%
- Robbery: –18%
- Aggravated assaults: –8%
- FBI Director’s reported statistics included:
- Violent crime arrests up 100%
- Gang disruptions up 210%
- Major increases in fentanyl seizures, child victim rescues, predator arrests, and espionage arrests.
2. Drug Overdose Deaths
- A 21% drop in overdose deaths from 2024 to 2025:
- 2024: ~91,694 deaths
- 2025: ~72,836 deaths
- Approx. 19,000 fewer overdose deaths attributed to:
- 99% reduction in illegal border crossings
- Increased drug‑trafficker interdiction
- Border and cartel enforcement operations
3. Media Coverage Criticism
- Mainstream media downplays or avoids covering these crime and overdose statistics because they’re positive for Trump.
- They argue media outlets attempt to disconnect improvements from administration policies.
4. Accusations Against Democrats
- Democrats misreported or reclassified crime statistics to make numbers appear better before elections.
- Democratic-led cities or governments artificially adjusted categories of crime.
5. Jack Smith & Abuse-of-Power Allegations
- Conducting politically motivated prosecutions of Donald Trump.
- Subpoenaing toll/phone records of:
- Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy
- Nine U.S. Senators
- Additional House members
- Allegedly violating the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause.
- Allegedly obtaining non-disclosure orders to hide his subpoenas from targets and the public.
- Testifying poorly under questioning by Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Brandon Gill.
- Accused of:
- Using unreliable witnesses (e.g., Cassidy Hutchinson)
- Making false statements to obtain judicial approvals
- Targeting political opponents in ways compared to abuses greater than Watergate.
6. January 6 Committee & Cassidy Hutchinson
- Hutchinson is an unreliable witness whose testimony was:
- Second- or third-hand
- Contradicted by Secret Service witnesses
- Still heavily relied on (185 times in the Jan. 6 report)
- She fabricated stories, including one involving Senator Ted Cruz
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:06.0 | Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. |
| 0:09.7 | And it's so nice to have you with, especially if you are listening on the radio around the country. |
| 0:13.6 | We've got a lot to discuss that happened this last week, including some incredible crime stats, |
| 0:19.1 | that the media is not connecting back to the policies of the Trump |
| 0:23.6 | administration. Well, we have a big show today. We start with with the numbers that were just |
| 0:29.4 | released that show murder rates in the United States dropped more than 20 percent. That is on top of |
| 0:35.8 | data that just came out that show drug overdose deaths dropped more than 20 percent. That is on top of data that just came out that show drug overdose deaths dropped more |
| 0:40.5 | than 20 percent, both of these this year compared to last year. We're going to break down those |
| 0:45.2 | numbers. We're going to talk about why that's happening and how literally tens of thousands of |
| 0:50.3 | Americans are alive today because President Trump was reelected and Republicans have control of both |
| 0:56.5 | houses of Congress. We're also going to talk about Jack Smith's disastrous testimony before the House of |
| 1:02.1 | Representatives. He got up and brazenly tried to defend his abuse of power and it did not go well. |
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