The Daily Blast: Trump ICE Raids Take Scarier Turn as Pritzker Issues Bombshell Warning

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who shares striking new details about President Trump’s ongoing occupation of Chicago. What’s happening there has really gone off the rails: ICE launching hypermilitarized raids of apartment buildings. Children getting pulled out into the streets and potentially traumatized. A priest shot in the head by a pepper ball. This has led Pritzker to take a lead role in denouncing Trump’s abuses of power—and in warning that our slide into authoritarianism could end in catastrophe. In our interview, Pritzker tells us what he’d like to see from Democrats, discusses how Illinois law enforcement is protecting local residents from ICE, and debunks Stephen Miller’s lies about what’s happening on the ground. Pritzker also discusses his inability to even get Trump officials on the phone amid this worsening crisis—making this all look dramatically more dangerous—and warns that Trump’s mental state is worsening fast. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.8	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:48.1	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. President Trump's invasion of Chicago has really gone off the rails.
1:01.0	The imagery is jarring.
1:02.8	Hyper-militarized raids of apartment buildings,
1:05.6	children getting pulled out into the streets and potentially traumatized,
1:09.7	a priest getting shot by a smoke pellet.
1:12.9	And Stephen Miller is boasting about it all over right-wing media, relishing every minute of
1:18.2	these horrors. He and Trump plainly want to incite violence to justify further authoritarian
1:24.3	crackdowns. In response to all this, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has taken a lead role in denouncing
1:31.1	Trump's abuses of power and warning that our ongoing slide into authoritarianism could end in
1:36.5	true catastrophe. We think Democrats as a party could be doing a lot more of what Pritzker's doing.
1:43.0	So today we're fortunate to be talking to
1:45.1	Governor Pritzker about all this and where it's all going. Governor, thank you so much for joining
1:49.8	us today. Great to be with you, Greg. So, Governor, can you just bring us up to date on what's going on
1:55.6	in Chicago with the National Guard and ICE right now at this moment? Sure. Well, I think I'm making news if I tell you this,
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