Team 47 - Trump’s Crime Crackdown
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this explosive episode of the Team 47 Podcast, Clay and Buck dive deep into President Donald Trump’s aggressive crime reduction strategy in Washington, D.C., highlighting a historic 12-day murder-free streak and an 87% drop in carjackings following the deployment of the National Guard. The hosts explore Trump’s broader plan to replicate this federal intervention in high-crime cities like Chicago and Baltimore, contrasting his law-and-order approach with what they describe as Democratic inaction and ideological resistance. The episode features sharp criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s refusal to endorse increased policing, a powerful personal testimony from a crime victim in D.C., and a comparative analysis of El Salvador’s dramatic crime turnaround under President Nayib Bukele.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | The Team 47 podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers, making the American farm strong again. |
| 0:13.1 | Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. |
| 0:18.1 | Trump in the Oval Office, the president of South Korea, scheduled to visit with him. |
| 0:23.3 | And this is what Trump said just a few moments ago about the crime situation in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:30.9 | This is cut three. |
| 0:32.4 | Everybody before me is happy what I'm doing. |
| 0:34.5 | Most of you won't say that because you're radical left. |
| 0:38.5 | The newspapers are so dishonest. The press is totally dishonest, but that's all right. We've gotten used to it. |
| 0:42.9 | And we won't have a landslide. So they obviously lost their power. I mean, it's impossible to |
| 0:46.7 | imagine that when you get 97% negative stories, purposely negative stories, even though you've |
| 0:53.1 | done 97% positive things, |
| 0:56.2 | that you could win an election in a landslide, winning all seven, think of it, |
| 1:02.4 | all seven swing states winning by the popular vote, by millions of votes. |
| 1:07.9 | We had it fantastic. |
| 1:09.4 | The best this year districts out of 3,000 districts. I guess we won |
| 1:14.9 | 3,500. We won 2,750, and they won 500. And that's, to me, the best of all. |
| 1:25.4 | Okay, Buck. It's becoming, I think, increasingly difficult to argue that the surge of support for National |
| 1:32.6 | Guard and D.C. police and everything else isn't having an impact. |
| 1:37.2 | I don't think it's totally arbitrary that we've gone 11 or 12 days without a murder in the |
| 1:42.2 | summer, something they can't find a record of in D.C. |
| 1:45.6 | Going back decades, obviously crime tends to skyrocket in the summer. |
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