In this new episode of the Straight Talk Podcast, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke addresses his intermittent absence due to enjoying the short summer in Wisconsin. He covers several major topics, including the ongoing debate about Joe Biden's potential exit from the presidential race and its implications for the Democratic Party. Clarke argues that media focus on Biden detracts from important issues like the border, the economy, and crime, which are crucial to conservatives and Donald Trump's campaign. He also covers several legal and political updates, including the lenient legal treatment for a former Biden administration official charged with theft and the controversial handling of student protests at the University of Florida. Clarke critically analyzes a recent declaration by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who labeled U.S. gun violence as a public health crisis. Sheriff Clarke dissects violent crime statistics, arguing that the problem is particularly acute within the black underclass and calling for stronger law enforcement rather than additional gun control measures. Throughout the episode, Sheriff Clarke emphasizes the need for political accountability and the enforcement of existing laws.
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In this new episode of the Straight Talk Podcast, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke addresses his intermittent absence due to enjoying the short summer in Wisconsin. He covers several major topics, including the ongoing debate about Joe Biden's potential exit from the presidential race and its implications for the Democratic Party. Clarke argues that media focus on Biden detracts from important issues like the border, the economy, and crime, which are crucial to conservatives and Donald Trump's campaign. He also covers several legal and political updates, including the lenient legal treatment for a former Biden administration official charged with theft and the controversial handling of student protests at the University of Florida. Clarke critically analyzes a recent declaration by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who labeled U.S. gun violence as a public health crisis. Sheriff Clarke dissects violent crime statistics, arguing that the problem is particularly acute within the black underclass and calling for stronger law enforcement rather than additional gun control measures. Throughout the episode, Sheriff Clarke emphasizes the need for political accountability and the enforcement of existing laws.
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, to another edition of the Straight Talk Podcast. I am your host, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. You may be wondering, maybe not, but if you are, where I've been off and on, intermittent with new podcasts, it's because it's summer in Wisconsin. Summer is short in the state of Wisconsin. Winters are long. We have beautiful summers, and I want to take advantage of that, being outdoors. And enjoying life, so from time to time you'll get a"best of" instead of a new one, but every once in a while I'll pop back in during the summer months and I'll give you some fresh material. Anyway, in the news, the saga of Joe Biden continues. I don't know what Joe Biden's going to do. I don't think anybody does. The media's playing this game today of guess what Joe Biden's going to do. Is he in? Is he out? Every time you turn around some new Democrat is coming out or some media site and saying Joe's gotta leave the race. I Joe is digging his heels in. He's very adamant about this, that he's not going anywhere. I mean, what else is he going to say? You know, even if he were to leave next week, it wouldn't matter that he's been saying all along that I'm not going anywhere. He owns the delegates. It would be, and I talked about that in a previous podcast, you know, a mess, a total mess for the Democrats to undo this. It'd be like trying to untangle a fishing line, if you will, to get Joe out of there if he doesn't do it voluntarily. The delegates that he won during the Democrat primary, state to state, are his. And he can only release them, he can't give them away. I don't know how you make him, other than to threaten him behind the scenes and say, Hey Joe, if you don't back delegates loose before our convention. Because once he gets to the convention he's nominated, then they're stuck. But if you don't, Joe, we're going to have Merrick Garland appoint a special prosecutor to investigate you and your son for influence peddling. You make some kind of threat like that, and then you negotiate a way out for him. But I, you know, we're still a ways from that. But here's the thing, too. While we're talking about Joe Biden, while everybody's talking about Joe Biden, guess what we're not talking about? We're not talking about things that are important to the American people, like the border, like the economy, inflation. Like crime, we're spending all our time talking about whether Joe Biden is going to be the Democrat nominee for president of the United States come November. So we're less than four months away and the clock is ticking We're not talking about things that we have to convince. I'm talking about conservatives I'm talking about Donald Trump. The time left to convince the independent voters that they got to make a change here And then Donald Trump should be the president of the United States again You So the longer we spend time away from this, I think, uh, it benefits the Democrats, not Joe Biden, but it benefits the Democrats because the focus is taken off of stuff where they're getting hammered in the polling about, like I said, the border, immigration, crime, inflation, the economy, things like that. So we lost another two weeks doing that. So I'm going to stay focused on some of those things, but here's where I want to start just some little tidbits here and just some, some quick comments. You may recall there was this Biden cross dressing, uh, aide, if you will, who was caught at an airport stealing luggage, stealing women's luggage, taking the clothing out, stealing the clothing, and he was charged with a felony, several felonies, serious felonies. But as, you know, this thing goes for Democrats in the criminal justice system, especially, especially highly policed ones, a guy named Sam Brinton, He gets a sweetheart deal. He's pleading to a, a lesser charge, so he won't be a felon, a convicted felon. He won't do any hard time in a federal prison. I'll read a couple things of this story on this case. The Free Beacon is reporting that Brinton had his privileged wrist slapped and won't spend a night in the hoosegow prison. The feds were kind enough to drop Brinton's felony grand larceny charge. That could have set them to prison for 20 years, down to petite larceny, a misdemeanor. His sweetheart pie, or sweetie pie I should say, sentence includes the following punishments. Brinton has been required to sign up for an adult diversion program, he must undergo treatment for mental health, that should have happened a long time ago. He is ordered to complete 50 hours, complete 50 hours of community service helping elderly people, I don't know what the hell, I don't want this guy around elderly people. This creep. This freak. And he must write a letter of apology to the people whose luggage he stole. Check this out. This is the third time Brinton was convicted of stealing luggage belonging to real women. Why is he in the Biden administration? So it says here, Brinton, who was allegedly smart enough to handle nuclear waste, that's the agency he works within, the Biden administration, was also somehow foolish enough to post pictures of himself wearing his Fashions on social media. So he apologized to the victims and You know, it's just I I don't know. This guy's a freak. He's been busted for this before. And he keeps skating. And you wonder why he keeps doing it again? Because they won't teach him a lesson. Okay, on to Capitol Hill. You know, there's this situation with Merrick Garland being held in contempt for not turning over the audio of the Biden interview with uh, Special Prosecutor Herr. You know, the one where Herr made the finding at the end that he wasn't going to charge Joe Biden. Because he doesn't have the mental capacity. He's an elderly old man who's forgetful and he can't bring that before a jury or he shouldn't. So then the Congress, exercising their authority by the way, Republican House, let's put it that way, more specific. They want those audio tapes released. They already have the transcripts, I know, but the audio tapes Will probably be more damning than just reading it off, uh, the transcripts off a piece of paper. Okay, and it's obviously done, they want to embarrass this guy, Joe Biden, nothing wrong with that. Garland has an obligation to comply with a subpoena. The audio recordings have been subpoenaed by Congress. Congress has oversight authority, under the Constitution, and they want them. Garland says, no, it's executive privilege, Biden said it's executive privilege, and I'm not turning it over. So now there's this thing, and this is, uh, a representative from Florida, Paula Luna. She introduced a resolution to old Attorney General Merrick Garland in Inherent Contempt of Congress. Now, reading from this story here, Inherent Contempt, a long tradition in American and British systems, was first utilized by Congress in 1795 and remained a traditional tool for most of the nation's history. It is long established that Congress's power to enforce a subpoena is integral to the legislative process. Without this power, Congress would be left at the mercy of the other branches to carry out its constitutional duties. So she introduces this resolution and forces a floor vote on it. Now keep in mind the GOP controls the House. Well, a hearing was held the other day, on this inherent contempt. And if it would have passed, it would allow the sergeant at arms to arrest Merrick Garland and bring him to the house, out on the floor, and have this hearing. And if he's, uh, if they get enough votes, they could jail him. Garland. And what it does is it gets around this, this foolishness, this theory that goes on in Washington, D. C. Garland's not the first attorney general to be held in contempt. Eric Holder was held in contempt. Bill Barr was held in contempt. On the other side, the shoe was on the other foot. Other officials have been held in contempt. And then what happens after that in the ordinary process is the cases refer to the Attorney General's Office for Prosecution. Well, if the Attorney General happens to be Merrick Garland and they refer, the House refers this over to the Attorney General's Office, what do you think is going to happen? Of course, they did it with Eric Holder. They just declined to prosecute. The Democrats did it with Holder. The Republicans did it with Bill Barr. And now the, the, the Republicans did it with Merrick Garland, and Merrick Garland's United States Department of Justice just said go fly a kite. So, you know, they go through this theater, and you know, what do they do this for? Nothing's ever gonna come of it. Well, then there's this maneuver, which I think is cool, and it's constitutional, by the way. It says it has a long tradition in the history of this country and the Constitution. So that Congress can get their subpoenas adhered to. Well, they held a vote the other day, and it didn't pass. To hold Merrick Garland An inherent contempt to Congress. The Republicans shut it down. Yes, the grand old party, the D. C. Republicans, who you can't count on, they're not reliable, you can't count on them for anything. Showed their true colors once again. Another story. This one I think is cool. The University of Florida suspends students arrested in on campus pro Palestine protests. In secretive hearings, the University of Florida set aside recommendations to lightly punish some of the college students arrested after pro Palestinian protests on campus and kicked them all out of school for four, three to four years. The decision by the new dean of students, Chris Summerlin, overruled what were effectively sentencing recommendations by the juries, known as hearing bodies, were testimony and watched police video of the protests and arrests during the disciplinary cases. The students were among nine people who University Police and Florida State Troopers arrested during a demonstration on the plaza on the University of Florida campus. They were among the first college arrests in Florida and all remain banned from University property. This is cool. Including one student, Nicole Gliwa, 23, of Gainesville, a master's student who is expected to graduate May 2nd and a deferred suspension for Parker Stanley Ovis of Naples, Florida. The university withheld Gliwa's diploma and suspended both Gliwa and Ovis for three years. The suspensions mean that each would need to reapply for admission to the University of Florida. The only worse punishment would have been to expel them. Which would have prevented them from ever returning. I think they should have been expelled, but that's me. You know me, I'm a hard ass when it comes to this nonsense. This is what should have gone on at Columbia. You know, those charges were dropped by the state's attorney, district attorney. It's what it should have been done in all instances of these colleges, public universities, by the way. Campuses, the private universities could do it if they want to. To send a message. To send a message, but these tent cities, when they told them to clear it out, and then they started negotiating with the students, negotiating with them as to when and how and if they were going to pick up their tents and get the hell out of there. They sent the wrong message. This sends the right message, but guess where this is? Florida. Guess who's the governor of Florida? This is University of Florida. Gators, their nickname. It's a public university. Government paid for. Ron DeSantis runs a different kind of state. This sends a clear message, I bet there will be no more, I mean they're out of school for summer now, I bet there will be no more protests like this at the University of Florida because now they know where the line is. You will be at a minimum suspended for three to four years, and at a maximum you'll be expelled which means you can never get back into the University of Florida. That's how you end this nonsense. That's The same thing with the criminal behavior and the criminal justice system. They will not send a clear and convincing message. They're not going to tolerate this lawlessness. They slap them on the wrist. Deferred prosecution. Release all the charges. That doesn't send a message. That makes it worth it for these idiots. And for criminals. If you have heard these criminals, then I'm not suggesting that for a misdemeanor crime that a person should go to prison for two or three years. But I'm talking about if you get arrested and charged with a felony, we're not watering this crap down, we're done with that. No more plea bargains in exchange for leniency. No more watered down sentences in exchange for plea bargains. No more. Till we get crime under control. It worked before. It worked during the 90s. With the crackdown of felonious and violent behavior, it led to historic record lows in criming violence all across the United States. Because we finally got serious about it. And why these universities want to continue to play footsie and patty cake with these anti semites is beyond me. Now, the meat of the program. Save the best for last. Recently, the United States Surgeon General declares U. S. gun violence an urgent public health crisis. Gun violence in the United States, a story from CNN, is a public health crisis that demands urgent action. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared at a major news advisory that pushes for more research and stronger laws designed to reduce harm. It is the first time a publication from the country's leading voice for public health is focused. on firearm violence and its profound consequences on survivors, communities, and mental health. Quote from the good doing doctor here. Over the past decade or two, this problem has been worsening. We now have reached the point where gun violence is the leading cause of death among kids and teens. Keep that comment in mind. Leading cause of death among kids and teens, but he's not specific about which kids and teens. He says here in this quote, That is something we should never take as the new normal. There's nothing normal about it. Guns have become a deeply polarizing issue, Murthy said, with the advisory is meant to take it out of the realm of politics and put it into the realm of public health where it belongs. This guy is so full of crap his eyes are brown. He put it squarely, or kept it squarely in the back of, in the political realm. The advisory lays out key preventive steps and regulatory measures that Murthy said can turn the tide of gun violence, just as it did for tobacco related disease or motor vehicle crashes. You guys gotta be kidding. He has got to be kidding. But unfortunately, he's not. So, I did some research, because I've been talking about this, how to reduce gun violence, for the past, I don't know, 30, 40 years? As a lawman? And you don't crack down on gun ownership, and you don't make it harder for gun owners in general to curb gun violence, so let's take a look at violent crime rates by race. Remember he said this is the number one cause of death for teens and, and, what was the other classification? Young people? No. Black teens and black young people. It's the leading cause. It is not the leading cause of white teens. It is not the leading cause of Asian teens. It is the leading cause of death for black teens. Here's some proof. Violent crime by rates. In 2022, the murder rate among blacks is 653 percent higher than the murder rate for whites. The murder rates for Hispanics is 65 percent higher than those of whites. Those numbers are not much of an outlier. From 1990 through 2022, the black murder rate averaged 569 percent higher than whites and the number for Hispanics was 50 percent higher. Here's some more data. Data shows that 93 percent of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks. So we get a black on black crime issue. Blacks commit violent crime at 10 to 7 to 10 times the rates that whites do. I'm just presenting the data, ladies and gentlemen. This is not. A gun ownership issue is not a second amendment issue. What this is, is a black underclass cultural issue. Why do, and mainly underclass blacks, not all blacks, so I want to make that clear. Underclass blacks, that's a subset of the black population. They use firearms to threaten people. They use firearms to take property on robberies, street robberies. They use firearms to settle disputes and larger numbers. And not even close than whites do. So why would what Murthy here is talking about and what all these anti gunners and anti second amendment people are talking about? This is a ruse for more gun control. They talk about, oh, we got to tighten up, uh, you know, private gun sales and we have to do background checks on all sales and the loophole that trade shows. And so it's all nonsense. I mean, if you look at guns ownership in the United States, more white people own guns than black people. Why isn't the violence? In the white community and the white rural areas like it is in the cities, the urban centers where blacks are congregated, you see what I mean? So they use this to say, Oh, we got to have more gun law. No, we don't have to have more gun laws. What we need to have is a national discussion on why we have so many underclass blacks resorting to violence for things like settling disputes, drive by shootings, street robberies. And mainly young people. Black on black crime is the societal problem. There's another story here if I can find it. It says gun violence is a societal problem. No, it's not. It is a black underclass cultural problem. It's cultural to use a firearm to settle disputes, to take property by force, and to threaten and intimidate your neighbors and friends. It's cultural in that subset of the black community. But see, nobody, nobody wants to say, when I say nobody, the people who know better, they're too afraid. I'm talking about gun owners and conservatives. They're too afraid to say this. They let this, the, the, the left and these anti-guns get away with making this a general problem within the, you know, the United States Society. No, it is not. You can go to any rural area and any state in this country and you won't find these levels of firearm violence. Why is that so hard to say? The data, I'm, I'm pulling the data, I'm bringing the, the data exists! When they come up with this, and when they propose this crap of, of banning assault rifles and, you know, banning the AR 15 and, and, no one brings this up. Not even the NRA, because they're afraid. And these other gun rights groups, they're afraid to say what I'm saying. They need to. No, get that out of here. You want to fix this? Go, go down and start arresting all of these clowns and these underclass black areas that are committing these crimes and lock them up. Go after their guns. They're the ones using them in a prohibited fashion. Overwhelmingly! But yet we need to talk about loopholes and trade shows and more background checks? First of all, it ain't in these black underclass neighborhoods and areas of these urban centers. They aren't going to do any background checks to get these firearms. Most gun owners in the United States have never used their firearm to take somebody's property. Or to settle a dispute. I'm not saying it never happens. It rarely happens. The numbers are right here, I just read them to you. It says here over the last three years, FBI arrest data, 38. 5 percent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black. Blacks only represent 13 percent of the population. As a whole, underclass is even smaller. Black underclass? So here's some more data. So Heather MacDonald in the book The War on Cops. In Chicago, Illinois, blacks committed 76 percent of all homicide. Despite composing 35 percent of the city's population, blacks also accounted for 78 percent of all juvenile arrests. Whites, who composed 28 percent of the city's population in Chicago, committed 4 percent of the homicides. More data from Heather McDonald. Blacks are 10 percent of the population in LA, but commit 42 percent of the robberies and 30%, 34% of its felonies. Whites make up 29% of the city's population and commit 5% of the robberies and 13% of its felonies. In New York, blacks committed 75% of all shootings, 70% of all robberies, and and 66% of all violent crime, despite only composing 23% of the population, said McDonald. The Bureau of Justice Statistics points out, blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders, and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties of the country, despite Comprising roughly 15 percent of the population. There were almost 6, 000 blacks killed by other blacks in 2015. By contrast, only 258 blacks were killed by police gunfire that year. So you look at this, you see it, you hear it. And this Surgeon General, we got a societal problem here with gun violence. What you have, Mr. Surgeon General is a black underclass crime problem. Gun violence problem. Not generally. It don't blame society for this. Blame the black underclass for all of this violence. I just read you the numbers. But you won't hear anybody at Capitol Hill with an R after their name talk like this. Bring Heather MacDonald up for a hearing and have her lay it out. She's a researcher, friend of mine. She'll tell you. It's just not hard to find. I did this work, you know, a couple of keystrokes. Then you have the city of Chicago. This past July 4th. Weekend. Started the 4th, ended on like the 8th. 7th or 8th. 119 people in the city of Chicago shot. Leaving 19 dead. Where's the outrage? I thought black lives mattered. 119 black people can get shot in one city, leaving 19 dead. And what do you get from the mayor, that Brandon Johnson, that useless idiot? No, we got a gun pro, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta do something about guns. No, you need to do something about black on black crime. Say it, Mr. Black Mayor. Tell the truth. This is a cultural problem within the black community. It is not a cultural problem overall. Don't blame the other gun owners that live in the state of Illinois and make it harder for them to purchase and possess firearms. Don't make them have to lock their guns up. Their guns aren't shooting, killing people. And you know, it's just, it's just, it really chaps my rear end. Pardon the expression. Knowing all this, that every time this gun control issue comes up, can you imagine if in one instance, a lone gunman shot. 119 people in a mass murder and leaving 19 dead, can you imagine how outraged people would be? I mean, it'd be national news, yet 119 black people can be shot in Chicago leaving 19 dead and only in the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune is this going to get a mention. You know why? Because black lives do not matter. I've said that over and over and over again. So, Mr. Surgeon General, do you want to do something? Make a phone call over to the United States Department of Justice and Merrick Garland and tell him, Hey, look, we've looked at the data. Time to crack down again in these urban centers, where the crime is happening and going after the people perpetrating it, not the lawful gun owners. Let's do what we did in the 90s, when we cracked down on violence in the urban centers, not nationwide, not in rural areas, and we identified these perpetrators, we locked them up for the longest period of time, Allowable by law in federal prisons. Let's take the weight off the state prison system. These prisons are expensive to run. I don't want, personally as a taxpayer, I don't want too much of my money going toward locking these people up in a state prison. Send them to federal prison. I want them locked up. I'm not gonna say, well, it costs too much money. We gotta have, you know, other means. No, we don't. Lock those bastards up. We did this. And we just need to do it again. We did it. But I'm tired, I'm past being tired, that every time this gun violence issue comes up, the left goes on their mission to punish law abiding gun owners. I didn't do anything, I'm a lawful gun owner. I own guns. I own a lot of guns, including semi automatic rifles, including one AR 15, an actual AR 15, the brand. I've never killed anybody. I've never used any of my firearms to settle a dispute. I've never used it to threaten, intimidate, and harass my neighbors and friends. Never. And the majority of gun owners never have. And I just wish, because this gun control issue is never going to go away on the left. It's the gift that keeps on giving. But I just wish the next time they bring this up that we need more gun control, we need more gun laws, that somebody on Capitol Hill, well you know what, I'll do it. For the media out there, including the conservative media, Newsmax, Fox News, and all these other online media sites, I'll do it. I'll make the case as to why we don't need to go after gun owners. This is a ruse just to undercut the Second Amendment. If we want to crack down on gun crime, go after underclass blacks. See, I can get away with saying that, because I'm black. If a white guy were to say it, I'd get it. A white woman were to say it, you know what, I'll erase it. You know, they'd come down like a ton of bricks on them. You know, they'd try with me, but it doesn't work. The racism thing doesn't work. So use me as a surrogate. Pass it on to your, your, your, the people you know in the media. Hey, you need to interview Sheriff Clarke on uh, this gun control issue came up again and again in the Congress. And as soon as the Surgeon General came out with this naming it a national health crisis, public health crisis. Yeah, it is. It's a public health crisis for black, underclass people. They're the ones dying. They're the ones shooting each other. And I didn't see this get too much coverage when the Surgeon General came out with this. I didn't see it get too much coverage. Not even you know from Fox News and I didn't see it. You can't let this stuff pass Come down to this guy this guy, you know, this was for him. Can I use a baseball analogy by this Murthy the Surgeon General it was a swing and a miss. He misdiagnosed the problem in calling In a public health crisis, and when you misdiagnose a problem, you will apply the wrong remedies. You know what remedies they're trying to apply? Gun control. Not stiffer sentences, not longer sentences. Gun control for law abiding gun owners. It misses the mark. This guy needs to be told that. Thanks for joining me.
