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The Philip DeFranco Show

Trump’s DC Takeover is Crazier Than Everyone Realizes & The WNBA Scandal Exposes A BIGGER Problem

The Philip DeFranco Show

philip defranco

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4.81000 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Trump's DC takeovers being justified by lies is worse than even critics expected and might soon spread to a city near you,

0:06.2

why RFK Jr. is now being blamed for the deadly CDC shooting in Atlanta,

0:09.4

the WNBA Dildo problems exposing the problem with new betting markets,

0:13.0

and how you may already be getting manipulated by Chinese AI.

0:15.6

We're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, starting

0:21.2

with this.

0:22.4

Donald Trump is liberating America.

0:24.4

Again.

0:25.4

This is Liberation Day in DC and we're gonna take our capital back.

0:30.2

We're taking it back.

0:31.2

First, Liberation Day was with the tariffs and now Donald Trump is promising to make our

0:35.3

capital great again by making what he called crimes, savagery, filth, and scum disappear.

0:40.0

With Trump holding what he called the press conference on crime and beautification today, and

0:44.2

we'll start with crime.

0:45.1

Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving

0:50.0

mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we're not going to let it happen

0:56.8

anymore. We're not going to take it. Today we're formally declaring a public safety emergency.

1:02.3

This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency. Under the authorities vested in me as the

1:08.3

president of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740

1:12.1

of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is? And placing the DC metropolitan

1:19.1

police department under direct federal control. Rancy at Trump announcing that Attorney General

1:24.8

Pambondi, who still hasn't released the Epstein files, assuming command of the Metro Police. And the defense department, they'll activate some 800 National Guard personnel who will deploy to the streets of D.C., which notably is something that Trump has more authority to do, since, unlike the state of California, the District of Columbia doesn't control its own National Guard. Also, on top of that, Trump reportedly plans to temporarily reassign some 120 FBI agents to nighttime patrol duties in DC. And as for both the National Guard and FBI in general, it's currently unclear exactly what they'll be doing. Right in that, in part because over the weekend, you had sources telling reporters that they probably won't have arrest authorities. Instead, it would be this show of force and they'd support local police doing stuff like driving around the city and running license plates for stolen vehicles and warrants.

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