The Crooks in DC
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Trump invokes the Home Rule Act of 1973 to clean up the nation’s crime-ridden capital, temporarily wresting control of the DC Metropolitan Police from local authorities. He's fed up with the crooks in DC, though what to do with the ones in Congress is anybody's guess. Meanwhile in Canada, medically assisted suicide has spiraled out of control just as its critics said it would, becoming a major driver of demographic change and underscoring a culture of despair. This week, the guys are joined by Andrew Beck to discuss troubles in DC and the Great White North, as well as the uncovering of now-Senator Adam Schiff’s authorization for a baseless 2017 Russiagate intel leak aimed at dragging Trump’s reputation. Plus: media recommendations!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the roundtable, the editors and publishers' podcast, here at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host this week, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute, publisher of the Claremont Review Books and the American Mind. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm joined by a motley crew. |
| 0:40.6 | Mike Sabo, managing editor of the American Mind, Spencer Clavon, Colossus bestriding American Mind and CRB, but assistant editor of Claremont Review Books, |
| 0:46.6 | and our sometimes guest now, Andrew Beck, Vice President Communications of the Claremont Institute, |
| 0:52.0 | where he's on loan part of his time from his firm |
| 0:55.3 | that he founded Beck and Stone. Well, we of course have to start today with the federal |
| 1:01.2 | takeover of D.C. for policing. There's a new sheriff in D.C. and his name is Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:08.5 | Trump has declared a state of emergency. In Washington, D.C., |
| 1:12.1 | AXios reports that he's been thinking about this problem and kind of obsessed with it for a while. |
| 1:17.4 | He's thought that D.C. is kind of a dump with its violent crime and street gangs and rowdy |
| 1:22.6 | Utes rampaging about at all hours of the day. But the recent beating of the young Doge staffer, the now |
| 1:30.5 | infamous big balls from his online handle from years ago, which we discussed last week, was the |
| 1:36.4 | last straw for Trump. He asked his team to drop a plan and get control of this. And so we have |
| 1:42.4 | Pam Bondi basically being in charge of the MPD, |
| 1:45.7 | the Metro Police Department in D.C., which she and the president are allowed to undertake |
| 1:51.2 | and authorize under the Home Rule Act of 1973. The National Guard has been mobilized. |
| 1:57.6 | Mayor Bowser griped a little bit in D.C., but she's actually, it turns out, had a decent |
| 2:02.8 | working relationship with Trump. At his initiation, it sounds like he told her at one meeting, |
| 2:08.0 | according to insiders, a while back, that she should come to him if she needs anything. |
| 2:13.0 | They might not agree, Trump said, but she can always come to him. And I guess relations have |
| 2:17.4 | been somewhat at least cordial since then. So she's gripped a Trump said, but she can always come to him. And I guess relations have been somewhat, |
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