PM Show Hr 2 | Heritage Foundation's Zack Smith on Soros Taking Over the Legal System

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Any conservative news channel on the radio, on television, you read any blog, you read any magazine, you will hear politicians, you will hear this said again and again and again, the Soros district attorneys, the Soros prosecutors. We know that crime is up across the country, almost exclusively in major cities. And we know that there are these sort of... predator, prowler, evil people who in past years... would have committed their crime, and then they would have been arrested eventually, and then they would have been sent away. First time for a couple of years, they'd get out, they'd do it again, the next time for 10 years, get out and do it again, the next time they'd be in for, and they're getting older as this is going on, and as punks get older, they tend to be less aggressive and less violent. Well, what happens if that, what if that happens if that cycle that we just described? What if instead that guy may or may not be arrested, but when he is, he's released? Now, instead of being a year, three, five, ten years in prison, he's committing crimes and he's committing a lot of them and they're violent. And each victim, God help you if you're a victim one of these people because you're not a statistic anymore, it becomes you lock every door obsessively. You go to counseling. You worry over your family members. The phone rings and you jump. You worry something. It changes your whole, it steals your innocence. So we know that George Soros, and now his son's taking over the operation, we know that I can't stand the man, and it is bad for America, but one must marvel at how effectively he has carried out his agenda by simply recognizing a little quirk, a little loophole. Go in and get the district attorney. Own the district attorney in the major city, and you can make criminals out of innocent people. And you can make innocent people out of criminals. You can really create a tumultuous situation, and that has happened. Now, you've heard this line from me, from Tucker Carlson, from a lot of other people. We have a guest who's going to help us dig deeper in actually case in point, chapter and verse. His name is Zach Smith. He's a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. And he is the author of the book, Rogue Prosecutors. how radical Soros lawyers are destroying America's communities. It is available now. Zach, let me start with the question of all the things you could write about. Why did you choose this? Well, first of all, thank you for having me on the show today. I really appreciate, appreciate the opportunity to be here and talk about this. 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 fair more 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, re-imagined and re-engineer a 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 distant attorneys in their own communities. Zach, I want to do that. But I wanted to vote 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 was spent on the last presidential election. Look at how much you spend on the Senate and 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-figure campaign contribution, that's a tsunami of money. Also, we...

that in indirect spending, you know, different infrastructure that's been put in place, think tanks, support groups, that George Soros' 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, he 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 cold tested language saying they wanted to fare 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. 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 mean, I've almost went to the law school 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 destroying 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 a foul 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 she's going, 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 in 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, How did he, 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 recognized how much power the district attorney has, and there are 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 and 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 pact, and essentially, through a very back-end way, enact their preferred policies, policies that frankly, they likely knew they could never get pushed. through each state legislature. And so they did a test run in Mississippi and Louisiana, where they primaried, 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've asked 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 outline 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, stepped 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 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 air pistol gestures at her. Or they're released from prison. Before she's home from choosing 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...

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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 had come. 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 our Texas towns with green hair, the bones in their noses. I just flat out wouldn't have bleak? Signs and wonders. But I think once you quit hearing sir and ma'am, rest is the send the father. Oh, it's a tad. It's the dismal tide. It is not the one thing. I'm not the one thing. Signs and wonders. Sir, ma'am. Rested a father. Signs and wonders. It's the visual point. 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, thriving 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 head. So how are you stealing a car? Very unfortunate. Sad. Sad. Sad. The teams 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 Letarian 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. Letarian 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. Letarian 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 smoked with cigarettes. He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I yanked the thing. And off they went. Two seven-year-olds alone on the road. Latarian drove several miles through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens. We got the one call that I 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 fun 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 her stuff for my friend. It all ended on investment lane and consumer drive. That's where a Latarian 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? There's a little bit no video game 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'd carjacked a car with his friends. Once again, WPBF 25 News. Latarian 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 Latarian Milton in 2015. He had just completed middle school and was looking forward to the next step. I get to school and high school to be able to go on the football team. Some good 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 and a female early Sunday morning and drove them to a window 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 wife. in 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, funny to do bad things to drive into a car. Did you know what you could

perhaps kill somebody yes but i wanted to do her stuff for my friend if i thought they wouldn't take me to jail i'd whip his behind right now back in court the judge ordered milton to remain at a juvenile facility and to his next court date letarian would be sentenced to 15 years in prison for that crime the streets have replaced fathers in the home i 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 delves into this, the issues around the legal system. Do you think we've made any headway? 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, 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 on, 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. But where was his father? Yeah. You know, like I did talk about my three closest friends. And they did, you know, 15 to 25, one did 28 and this and that. I was the 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 Bari Weiss Show. Thanks, Michael. The issue of DEI keeps coming up. Diversity, equity, and inclusion. And it is an issue fraught with hurt feelings and a lack of honesty. And the lack of honesty is for a simple reason. because of the hurt feelings. See, the truth is painful to some people. If you were, let's say you're a fan of the NFL, for about a 20-year span there, the most dominant team by far was the New England Patriots. But the fans of all the other teams wanted their team to win. So they would argue, my team's better than your team, but no, actually your team doesn't win the Super Bowl and the Patriots do. It's just that simple. But if it hurts your feelings, we'll say that your team, which came in last place, is the best team, and the Patriots really aren't. And we can make excuses. We can do the film. We can do the inflated, but we can make every excuse known to mankind. And we can say your team is better. In fact, we can make your team the Super Bowl champion. We can just call them the champion even though they don't win. And then everybody will be happy, right?

And that's what you do if your primary goal is to avoid hurting people's feelings. So what people learn when they want to get their way as children do is they learn what behaviors will allow them to get their way. You see a child manipulate a parent. And every parent, you know, you've been there. A kid. Who has a boo-boo. Mama kisses the boo-boo. We put a band-aid on it. And for a little while there, he doesn't have to do his homework. Mama's fussing her. She's using that sweet mama tone. Oh, it's so nice. He can eat what he wants. He's not required to do anything. Maybe we can even have some ice cream. Oh, it's good. So if you're a kid, You go, oh, hypochondria pays. This is how we train animals. It's very simple. Animals can't understand words. They do understand tone. I think some humans think they understand words. They don't. And obviously they can't speak back to us. But say dogs, for instance, are very smart. And they're very smart at recognizing patterns. And dog trainers will tell you this. And that's why the consistency of the pattern is key. Dog, when I say a word or a sound, and you go down flat and I give you a milk bone, and you love a milk bone, then when I go, you go down, you get the bone, the next time I go, you're going down, but you'll get the bone. Now, is not really a word. But if instead of, I did sit, then he might, oh, he gets the word sit. No, he gets the tone and he gets the reaction. And so dogs learn to react in this manner. Well, guess what? Some of you, in fact, most of you are being played for the dog by people who want you to react a certain way when they want it. When they scream racism, you apologize, you hand over your money, you hand over your position, you change your rules, you do everything because it pays. And you learn to sit when they say sit. And that's the problem. And so we have become a nation of people whose primary concern is not upsetting the people who are always upset. The problem with this is, There is no end to this behavior. And as we're coming to learn, there are real consequences. There are companies who no longer manufacture good products. There are people in positions where you need to be good at a skill. And you lack that skill, but you're a girl, but you're black, but you're this, but you're that. And then you're failing. at performing the task, because you had no business being there, creates real problems. Now, the response to that is, oh, you just don't like women. Oh, you just don't like blacks. That is an insulting thing to say. And it's also a stupid thing to say. And I'm not going to respond to it because it reflects more about you than it does me.

If that's what you think of me, then I'm not going to change your opinion by disagreeing with you, but also understand you have revealed you're stupid. Now, if you're stupid and also black or stupid and also a woman, I'll just add that to your character profile. You're tall or you're short, you're fat or you're skinny. You're stupid. Okay? And I will never change my opinion of you because you have shown me you are stupid. And I'm not hiring you because you're stupid. I don't care how much that upsets you. You're not forcing me into that. And when people start behaving this way, you don't have to have DEI in the NBA. You don't have to have DEI in the NFL because coaches only want the best player on the field. And fans demand that you win. What an amazing world to live in. Where winning or losing would actually matter. You've seen this with Boeing, where they've put people into positions that they can't handle them, and you've got engine callings falling apart in mid-flight, wheels falling off at takeoff, cockpit window glass cracking, engine failure. You've got real, real problems. And the airlines, not just the manufacturers. are having their share of problems. A female pilot showed up to work in street clothes, and she tells the passengers that she's going through a divorce. Now, this says to me, this person is emotionally unstable. And I'll bet you that would have been revealed all along the process of her becoming a pilot. I don't have to tell you how important the job of being a pilot is because, Fewer than two dozen, fewer than 20, terrorists managed to hijack a few planes, and it was the worst terror attack on American soil. This is kind of a big job. Inside Edition revealed the story. Here she is. She's not in her uniform, but here she is having a moment. before a flight. Listen to this. Okay, if you don't feel safe, get off the airplane. This is your captain speaking, but never like this. I'll stop, and we'll fly the airplane. Don't worry, I'm going to let my co-pilot fly it. He's a man. Okay? It's a total meltdown. The pilot boarded in her street clothes and addressed the passengers over the intercom. Passengers Pam O'Neill couldn't believe what was happening. She said, let's take a vote. How many of you would like to take off now with me dressed as I am, or would you prefer that I take 10 minutes to get changed into my cute little uniform? Then she started talking about her divorce and political candidates. And the minute she mentioned that, a gentleman stood up and just yelled. whoa, enough, you're scaring me. Another passenger, Randy Reese, got up to leave and gave a running commentary on social media. Pilot also insulted a couple on board. Did I offend you? Okay, so did I purposely offend you? I did. The answer's yes. Flight of tennis, please diss on doors. After 20 passengers insisted on getting off the United Airlines flight, the pilot quietly left the aircraft. Okay, if you don't feel safe, get off the airplane.

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