AM Show Hr 2 | Rogue Prosecutors & the Rise of Urban Chaos

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But the reason we chose to write about this, my co-author and I, we're both former prosecutors. And we started talking to friends, a former colleagues, and they said, hey, there are prosecutors coming into office around the country and they're not prosecuting. They're refusing to prosecute certain crimes. They're not seeking bail, even for repeat violent offenders. And even when someone is convicted of a crime, they're seeking very lenient sentences for that convicted criminal. And we started hearing this story more and more in cities around the country. And so we started looking into it. We started writing about some of these prosecutors. And pretty soon it became apparent. There's a threat, weaving all these prosecutors together. This was a national movement that was very well financed. It was backed by George Soros and other left-leaning billionaires. And it was a systematic attempt to fundamentally, and this is their words, reimagine and re-engineer our criminal justice system. And the consequences of this effort have been absolutely devastating in the communities where it's being tried. It's been absolutely devastating for victims. And it's been absolutely devastating for the rule of law across the country. And so this is a very important topic. Frankly, I think it's something not a lot of people realize is happening right now. And so we wanted to write about it, to highlight it, and to most importantly give folks a pathway forward. if they're confronted with one of the rogue, radical district attorneys in their own communities. Zach, I want to do that, but I want to devote sufficient time as much as we possibly can. Let's start, and I want to devote the time to do this thoroughly. Let's start with how this happened. To what extent can we say that these are Soros prosecutors? I'm going to make some straw man arguments. I'm going to be the devil's advocate, in this case, truly the devil's advocate. Let's start with, well, George Soros isn't the only one supporting these prosecutors, and they are winning the support of their voters. How do you respond to his outsized influence? Well, I'll make a couple of points in response to that. First of all, yeah, George Soros isn't the only person doing it, but he was certainly one of the driving forces behind this movement. He's certainly been one of the biggest financial contributors to this movement. In our book, we have an entire chapter where we go through the funding of this movement, how it works, what we know, what we can't definitively know because a lot of the money flows through that channels. It's hidden from public views. But what we think we know, based on where some of the money is going, some of the money is being spent. And it's estimated that in direct campaign contributions, George Soros has given almost $40 million in direct campaign contributions to support these rogue district attorneys around the country. Now, that is a lot of money. But in politics, you may be thinking, well, that's not that much money. You know, look at how much we spent on the last presidential election. Look at how much you spend on the Senate, gubernatorial races. But the important thing to realize here is that in district attorney races, these are traditionally low dollar, low profile affairs. They're often uncontested. Many times, even in large cities, a six-figure campaign contribution is unheard of. And so when you inundate these cities with a seven-favor of campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also, we suspect.

in indirect spending, you know, different infrastructure that's been put in place, think tanks, support groups that George Soros is spending to support this radical movement and criminal justice, you know, quote, reform in general, may be approaching a billion. If it's a billion, it would be, dollars. And then quickly to your second point, you said these individuals received the support of the voters. They were elected to office. That's true. But what happened in many of these jurisdictions, when these folks were first running for office, they used poll tested language saying they wanted the fair criminal justice system. They wanted a criminal justice system that didn't unnecessarily incarcerate anyone. They made pretty uncontroversial statements that you or I or any reasonable person would agree with. But what happened when these individuals got into all this in many cases, it quickly became apparent what they met by those phrases and what you or I or the average person would have understood those phrases to mean are two different things to hire. Right. And the amount of money, as you said, it may not sound like that much money, but it is shocking. How these district attorney races, unlike, say, congressional seats, one congressman can't do much. If you're not the Speaker of the House, you're just one congressman. A district attorney has an incredible amount of power. We will discuss this issue in greater detail. I'm going to devote a lot of time on this evening's program just so that you're aware because this is an issue that is not getting enough attention and is absolutely destroying America's cities. Heck, you see what's happening with Donald Trump and that prosecution alone. More coming up. The book is Rogue Prosecutors, How Radical Soros Lawyers are destroying America's community. I've almost went the law to myself. The Michael Bari Weiss Show. Zach Smith is our guest of the Heritage Foundation. The book is Rogue Prosecutors, How Radical Soros Lawyer Are Destoring America's Communities. Folks, I want you to understand to put this into perspective. When you talk about presidential elections and how much money is raised, you take that to the state level for gubernatorial elections and how much money is raised. And the one that gets me is how much money people will spend on a congressional election, how much money will be raised. And you think to yourself, of all those millions of dollars, we could have taken 10% of that and focused it on a district attorney's race in the major cities and won some races. Most people don't know who the district attorney is in their county. And I'm particularly speaking of the major counties that the major cities are a part of, Harris County for Houston, Cook County for Chicago. You see this with Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, L.A., Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland. You know, Multnomah County used to be kind of a reasonable county, and Portland was a little wacky, weird, harmless. Well, that's changed. And now you don't want to run afoul of the district attorney in those sorts of places. So for very little money, you talk about bang for the buck. For very little money, relatively speaking, Soros can have an incredible amount of influence in decriminalizing certain crimes.

in saying, well, if you're a young black man who is engaged in jugging, that's a big thing in Houston right now, and you follow a little old lady from the bank where she makes a withdrawal because her grandkids are coming to see her and she wants to give them some money for their birthday. And that guy puts a pistol on her face, whips her, takes the money. and the cops arrest him. They got him dead to rights. They got him on video. They've got her witness account. There's no doubt. You know, there's four witnesses. The whole deal. And you've got, as we've seen in Houston, you've got now judges because beyond just the prosecutor, you've got the judges now. All of a sudden, we've seen a crime spike in Houston and Harris County, the likes of which we've never seen. And it's not that there are more criminals. It's that our process is no longer dealing with them. That's why this issue is so important because it's a national trend, and it's not accidental. Rogue prosecutors, how radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. Zach, I think I cut you off while you were making your point. I want to make sure you leave nothing unsaid. We're going to have plenty of time to get into this. But when you look at the Soros strategy and how targeted this is, do we understand how he decided this would be the thing he would focus on? Yeah, we have an entire chapter in the book. And the way we structured the book, we basically have the first chapter talks about the background, the ideological underpinnings of the movement. It has its roots in a Marxist movement from the 60s to prison abolition movement. There's actually a movement where people think no one should go to prison for any reason. Well, that obviously didn't play well with the general public. Most people recognized it for the radical policy that it was. But what that original Marxist prison abolition movement pushed, much of that's been accomplished today through the rogue prosecutor movement. But what happened back in 2014, 2015, essentially some folks who worked for George Soros or had been affiliated with George Soros, they recognize how much power the district attorney has under 2,300 local elected VAs around the country, and they essentially realized. It doesn't matter how many officers you have on the street. It doesn't matter if the officers are making arrests. If the prosecutor won't prosecute the criminals, but the police do doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter what kind of laws you have on the book. If you have mandatory minimums, lengthy sentences for violent crimes, none of that matters either if the prosecutor won't prosecute because the judge will never see the case. It'll be dismissed before it ever goes to trial. And so in a very ingenious, very diabolical way, These individuals recognize how much power the DA has. They recognize that not many people pay attention to the local DA races, and they recognize that for relatively little money, they could go in, boost their preferred candidates to the top of the electoral pack, and essentially, through a very back-end way, enact their preferred policy. Policies that frankly, they likely knew they could never get pushed through each state's legislature.

And so they did a test run in Mississippi and Louisiana, where they primaryed, essentially some death penalty, DAs, and they had success. And so then they moved out and they went national. And their first big city prosecutor they backed was Tim Fox in Chicago, the Cook County District Attorney. And so the other thing we do in our book, we highlight eight different rogue prosecutors in eight different cities around the country. We outlined how they came to be part of the movement. who backed them, the policies they've enacted once they got into office. And most tragically, we focus on true crime stories that would not have happened but for these rogue prosecutors policies. And I have to tell you, it's heartbreaking when you see the same results playing out in city after city after city and knowing that these crimes would not have happened if these prosecutors would have just done their jobs and if they would have... sought justice and sought to hold criminals accountable for their actions. It's a real harsh reality that many people don't want to accept to understand that there is a prevailing belief because they don't say it in these words directly. that a person who commits murder, particularly a person of color, should simply be released back out on the streets because he is a victim of a system. And it's not until someone is a victim of a crime or has a family member who is. And we had a series of crime victims' families in the last year during our election cycle. step forward. And we had the son of a woman who she was run over, and then they backed back up over her to steal her purse as she exited a McDonald's. And we have teenagers who are murdered by a gang member, and then the gang members drive by the mom's home and make, you know, air pistol gestures at her. Or they're released from prison before she's home from children. A casket or planning the funeral, the bad guys are released to go back to their home three doors over from where the bad guy killed their daughter. It is a level of... A depth of depravity that is hard, I think, for most people to understand. That these things aren't happening accidentally. That this is a strategy, a very ill-intentioned strategy, and it's working out exactly the way they planned it because they don't share our belief that the victim is sacrosanct and criminals should be punished. I will die for this country. I will die for this flag. The Michael Bari Weiss Show. It's a big honor to be... Living in the United States. A year or two ago, I was watching No Country for Old Men. And Tommy Lee Jay Jones' character, if you recall, is the sheriff who never really unholstress his gun. He never has to draw. And the Mexican cartels have brought a level of violence to the streets that he can't even understand. The firepower far exceeds anything he's got. And he just can't understand how the world has gone to hell.

It just can't understand it. So he goes to his mentor, and he's talking to his mentor, and his mentor is trying to explain how crazy the world has become, and he refers to signs and wonders. And when I heard that, I thought, you know, that's how I feel about some of the crazy news stories of how on earth can this actually happen? How do you reach such... a point of depravity. I really have to wonder. Well, our latest installment of Signs and Wonders comes to you from Chicago, Illinois. It's all the damn money in the drugs. It's just down beyond everything. What's it mean? What's it leading to? You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago. I'd see children walk in the streets of Arcticis towns with green hair, bones in their noses. I'd just flat out wouldn't have bleak? Signs and wonders. But I think once you quit hearing sir and ma'am, rest is soon to follow. Oh, it's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It is not the one thing. Not the one thing. Not the one thing. Signs and wonders. Sir and ma'am. Rest the son and father. Signs and wonders. Not the one thing. It's the dismal tide. So credit for this story comes from Fox 32 in Chicago, and it's ugly. We began with a tragic story in the southwest suburbs after teens take a stolen Kia for a deadly joy ride. Robbins police say three 13-year-old boys were inside of a stolen Kia with the driver's side window busted out, driving on Kedzie Avenue at about 2.30 this afternoon. Police started to follow the Kia when it collided with another car killing a 71-year-old man who was driving. Neighbors tell us the man lived in a nearby apartment complex. It's terrible. Terrible. I don't even think they've taken driver's ed. So how are you stealing a car? Very unfortunate. Sad. Sad. The teens were all arrested at the scene. The amazing thing is that that woman is most bothered that they haven't taken driver's ed. That's the least of their worries. Before you say, well, they're just children doing childish things. Let me remind you of Latarian Milton. Letarian was seven years old when he stole his grandma's car. When asked why he did it, he said that he wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends. He wanted to do hood rat stuff with his friends. That went viral in 2009, but you've already forgotten it. He was seven years old. You have a seven-year-old boy stealing a car and saying funny stuff on the news. Let's go back to that original report. This is a seven-year-old kid, a first grader. Credit WPF News in West Palm Beach. Latarian Milton is not your typical seven-year-old. Few as age have ever driven an SUV up and down several busy streets.

It all started at his mother's townhouse. Latarian says he took the car keys and hopped into his grandmother's Dodge Durango. When I came through the back door, I looked on the counter my keys were going. I took my girlfriend because I got mad at my mom, and then I suddenly had my friend come in and he smokes with cigarettes. He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I yanked it. I yanked the thing. And off they went. Two seven-year-olds alone on the road. Letarian drove several miles through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens. We got the one call that he told you about of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short to be able to see what the steering wheel. Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two parked cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two moving cars near Walmart. I want to do it because it's fun. It's funny to do bad things to drive into a car. So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, but I wanted to do hill ride stuff for my friend. It all ended on investment lane and consumer drive. That's where Litarian hit the curve and side swip the sign. The SUV took most of the beating, snapping off one of his axles and wheels. A grandmother's rage. I want to whip his behind. That's what I want to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now. You don't think he should be punished for all of this? This is a little bit, no video. gang for a whole weekend. And one unusual story for police. Are you sorry? You understand that now your grandma's going to have to pay to have those cars fixed because you hit those cars. Can my mom help her? I don't know. Can your mom help her? Well, you moved on, as we all did. But Latarian didn't. Two weeks after that, he attacked his grandmother because she wouldn't buy him chicken wings. Nine years later, he found himself in trouble again. Want to guess what he did this time? He carjacked a car with his friends. Once again, WPBF 25 News. Latari and Milton spent about 10 minutes in court this morning. He learned that he will not be able to go home anytime soon. He will have to wait to hear from the judge the next court date. We last spoke with Latari and Milton in 2015. He had just completed middle school and was looking forward to the next step. I get to school in high school because we had gone to football team. pass and get success there. This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday to face charges stemming from an armed robbery and carjacking. Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy say a lift driver picked up four young males in a female early Sunday morning and drove them to a windor away in West Palm Beach. That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigators say the suspects told the driver to take them to another location. When the driver refused, authorities say one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the back of the head. The driver says he got out of the car and was robbed of his wallet and jacket. He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators, the driver gave detectives a phone number which led to the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. We first met Milton in 2007 when he was seven years old. He had just stolen his grandmother's SUV and went on a joyride through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens. I want to do it because it's fun. It's funny to do bad things. It drives into a car. So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, but I wanted to do her stuff with my friend. If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd whip piss behind right now. Back in court, the judge ordered Milton to remain at a juvenile facility into his next court date. Letarian would be sentenced to 15 years in prison for that crime. The streets have replaced fathers in the home. You know, I've played this clip before, but maybe it's never been more appropriate than now.

It was Denzel Washington when he was asked about the importance of the father in the home. You know, incarceration rates in America has been a problem, especially as opposed to minorities. And Roman deles into this, the issues around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway in the legal? I think it's more important to make headway in our own house. By the time the system comes into play, the damage is done. They're not locking up seven-year-olds. Yeah. You know, I was in Chicago a couple of three, four weeks ago. And we saw these little kids on bikes with masks on the side of the head, like five or six of them. And the driver said, yeah, they're little yumbies. I said, who? He said, Little Yommies. Look up. Google Little Yummy. Little Yummy was an 11-year-old murderer. Wow. And you look at this picture, you'll see the headshot him, and he's like this. And he got murdered at 11 by a 14-year-old. Wow. Who's doing life now in a 16-year-old. That makes no sense. You blame the system? Where was his father? It starts in the house. It starts in the home. And yeah, well, my father got locked up. Where was his father? Yeah. You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends, and they did, you know, 15 to 25, 1 did 28, this and that. I was only one of the three that had a father in my life, even though my parents were together, but I still had a father who was a gentle man and a good example. And they didn't. We can blame the system if we want, but they didn't lock any of us up at seven. Yeah. We were all doing enough to get locked up at 13. My parents sent me in another direction. They didn't have anybody to help them, and they kept doing what they was doing. And the system got them. So I don't, the system is rigged, but all the more reason not to help. You take care of yourself. Thank you, buddy. The Michael Perry Show. Thanks, Michael. Boy, this just gets better and better and better. Pinch myself. President Trump, as the head of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center, just announcing that George Strait will be honored at the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center. Highest civilian honor you can receive. And I think about I wasn't there. I've seen photos. I think about George Strait being chosen. by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo to cover a missed date. Do you remember who missed the date? Who? Very good. To cover for a missed date. And how that really launched it. Obviously, I think that was the biggest effect on a person's career. What MTV did for ZZ Top. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo did for George Strait. And I think about this little bitty fellow, a little skinny, fair-faced, fresh-faced, kill-boy, in his boots and his jeans, creased down the middle, and he's reaching out there and shaking people's hands, and he's so happy to be here. And that's George Strait. And now he's going to be honored. Have you ever been to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center?

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