How Democrats Destroyed the Justice System

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None of it. We are going to play an extended segment of her press conference. I'm going to interrupt to offer my thoughts on what she says. This five-minute segment of this press conference that just wrapped up about 10, 15 minutes ago is truly remarkable. One of the age-old tools that all prosecutors have to investigate any crime, including cost overruns, is a grand jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us. By inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence, he has neutered the grand jury's ability to investigate crime. As a result, Jerome Powell today. is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve. Any guesses as to which federal judge, you can get every single judge in the federal judiciary, every single one. But I'll bet you only need one guess. It is, in fact, the chief district judge for the District of Columbia, James Bosberg, if that name sounds familiar, it should. He has basically done his level best to thwart every single thing that the Trump administration has attempted to do. He has been overruled a whole bunch of times by higher courts. He has been issuing injunctions solely to try to slow down the Trump implementation of policy. In other words, he has seen... his role as being not just an activist but someone who is empowered to try to stop the Trump administration. Now, what he has done now, what Piro is saying, is actually throw himself in between a lawfully issued subpoena. Again, whatever you think about the propriety of potentially prosecuting the sitting head of the Federal Reserve just before his term as Federal Reserve chairman ends, which it is scheduled to end in May, whether or not you think that was politically motivated, whether or not you think that that was appropriate. appropriate. What is beyond doubt is that the subpoena power of a federal prosecutor, the subpoena power of a grand jury, the power to impanel a grand jury to then weigh evidence against whoever it is that is under investigation, that is not something that a judge can typically with as scant evidence as Bosberg was relying on in his ruling get in between. Back to Janine Piro. This is wrong. And it is without legal authority.

In June of 2025, Jerome Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee, making, quote, questionable statements that did not comport with publicly available documents. And that was regarding the atrocious cost overrun of more than $1 billion. I didn't say million. I said billion. in renovations to his headquarters. This from the man who says that he is the steward of our public funds. In November, the United States Attorney's Office began an inquiry. Prosecutors from my office gathered information for months before we served to grand jury subpoenas. On December 19th, we sent an email to the Federal Reserve to have a conversation, a meeting, or even a phone call to discuss our concerns. There was no response. On December 29th, we sent an email to have a conversation, a meeting, or even a phone call to discuss our concerns. Again, we were ignored. We, in fact, asked to meet the first week in January. We were ignored. It was at that point, that two grand jury subpoenas were issued to the Federal Reserve, not even to Jerome Powell. Again, no response, no compliance, but instead, a woe is me video by Mr. Jerome Powell falsely claiming that he was being threatened with criminal indictment. In claiming victim status, Jerome Powell, proceeds to call his political friends in DC and around the world to gin up support for himself, all the while refusing to produce simple documents. Now, You might remember that video. Jerome Powell was sure to issue it as soon as the markets were going to open. As soon as the futures markets were opening on a Sunday night. He did this intentionally to try to tank the stock market on Monday morning. I'm telling you, the video was released within probably 10 minutes of futures marketing, futures markets opening on a Sunday evening. It was remarkable the timing that he had there. What he was saying was, well, the Trump administration, they're trying to harass me. me they're trying to get me to lower interest rates

There's no possibility whatsoever that this was a legitimate investigation. And here is where Boseberg steps in because Boseberg also believes because he is so biased, impossibly biased against the Trump administration, that his ruling just sort of assumed that this was what Jerome Powell said it was, that this was a witch hunt, that this was an effort to bully him, that this was an effort by the Trump administration to get some political outcome. the lowering of interest rates, never even taking into account the possibility. And in fact, the evidence is actually very strong that Jerome Powell did lie before Congress about those cost overruns. This is a legitimate function of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Washington, D.C. It can investigate whether people make false statements to Congress, whether people make false statements to law enforcement officers, whether people are perjuring themselves. before bodies where they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but this is a legitimate investigation, in other words. Because Jerome Powell simply said, well, I'm too good of a person to possibly ever have done anything wrong. And clearly the bad guy here is the Trump administration. And Trump specifically, this is an illegitimate investigation. Now, of course, this is going to be something that somebody says when they're under investigation. It is a line of defense. It doesn't negate. the severity of the potential crime. And it certainly doesn't provide any authorization for a judge to say, well, this is merely pretextual, that there is no underlying crime here. Clearly there was. Back to Piro. Now, enter local district court judge James Bosberg, whose written decision on its face makes clear his antipathy toward President Trump. in this administration. He quashes both subpoenas, thereby prohibiting us from reviewing any records and precluding us from submitting records to the grand jury. That grand jury, of course, comprised of ordinary people. Ladies and gentlemen, no one is above the law. I seem to recall Democrats saying that an awful lot when President Trump was charged four different times in four different cases, two state and two federal. No one is above the law, right? Even former presidents have to answer for their potential crimes. Apparently current heads of the Federal Reserve, though, do not. But for the first time, the judge is ruling that a grand jury subpoena on its face legal in all regards can be ignored because a judge thinks the subject is beyond reproach and that is key here a federal judge does absolutely have the power to quash federal subpoenas however

What is going on here is Bozberg, on balance, is saying Jerome Powell is inherently trustworthy and inherently of good character, and the Trump administration is inherently of bad character. Ergo, they are only issuing this subpoena to get a political outcome that they want, the lowering of interest rates. That's a hell of a logical leap for a judge to make, instead of weighing the actual evidence against... Jerome Powell, did he in fact lie to Congress? Were there cost overruns? Yes. Did Jerome Powell say one thing about cost overruns when he was testifying about them? And did contemporaneous reporting about those cost overruns counter exactly what Jerome Powell said? Yes, is that ample evidence? Is that probable cause to allow for subpoenas to determine whether or not Jerome Powell was lying, whether or not Jerome Powell committed federal perjury? This is a decision that is untethered to the law. It creates chaos where any defendant who wishes to evade an investigation, guilty or not, can allege I'm a victim. I'm being targeted, and therefore you cannot investigate me. And if you find the right judge, you'll buy it. This is the antithesis of American justice. Exonerating anyone without any records, without an investigation, or question is not how our criminal justice system works. This judge has put himself at the entrance door to the grand jury slamming that door shut. irrespective of the legal process and thus preventing the grand jury from doing the work that it does the long-term harm here to not just the grand jury process but to federal prosecutions to the rule of law generally is not to be understated This is a very, very dangerous slope to go down. Boseberg, without actually examining the evidence that was going to be presented or the nature of the investigation into Jerome Powell simply made what essentially amounts to a summary judgment saying, okay, Jerome Powell, good guy, Trump, bad guy, Trump clearly put pressure on Janine Piro. Piro clearly put pressure on this grand jury. We're going to quash this subpoena because Jerome Powell couldn't possibly have been a bad guy. guy this must be a case of persecution coming up here on the dan o'donnell show i am going to show you what political persecution in the form of prosecution

actually looks like. Sylvia Ortiz-Viles, a Democrat state representative, today pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct that, A, does not seem to fit the criminal complaint against her. In other words, it does not look like the behavior she is accused of engaging in as outlined in the criminal complaint rises to the level or meets the statutory definition of what we would consider disorderly conduct in this state. And two, it is very possible the Wisconsin Constitution flatly bars this prosecution. She was charged and she was convicted anywhere. At least today she pleaded no contest. She is going to be convicted. She is going to face a $300 fine. Suffice it to say, this was not the most serious prosecution in the world, but it was very clearly politically motivated. I'm going to draw a sharp distinction and dive into what I believe to be the worst political persecution in this state in quite some time. Stay tuned. Dan O'Donnell Show coming right back.

Not sure how busy the bars are going to be this St. Patrick's Day weekend. Yes, I know St. Patrick's Day is actually Tuesday, but a lot of people were planning on going out and celebrating. Tonight is going to be just fine. Tomorrow night. Snow is going to start, freezing rain, ice, sleet. We're going to see all of it. Be weather aware, as they say. Stay off the roads if you don't need to be out on Sunday. We've been through this a million times before. It's not going to be anything out of the ordinary, even though everybody's Apple Weather app. said we were going to get about six feet of snow on Wednesday. This, folks, is why I am such a big proponent of local news, even though I am critical of the insane liberal bias of our local news here in Wisconsin. It is very necessary. Local news, local weather, local meteorologists who are actually using models instead of just the algos that Apple employs through their partnership with the weather channel that can't possibly be accurate. five days out and i will remind you again since we have no way of predicting the weather and say with any certainty how cold it is going to be or to predict how much snow we're going to get five days away from a storm how exactly are we accurately going to predict what the global temperature is going to be five decades from now something to think about when you are questioning meteorology and the snow totals this weekend. Sylvia Ortiz-Viles, Democrat State Representative, who represents a portion of Milwaukee's South Side, pleaded no contest today to a charge of disorderly conduct. Now, what did she do? Is she screaming and hollering? Did she get a little bit too drunk at last year's St. Patrick's Day festivities? No. She told a couple of her fellow Democratic reps that she was going to go to the media with embarrassing information about them. That's disorderly conduct. According to the criminal complaint against her, this dispute arises from a long-time feud that Ortiz-Viles has had with fellow Democrat Priscilla Prado. Now, we reported on this extensively here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. I believe at one point we called it the great Democrat catfight of 2025. Ortiz Veles was very upset that she was not included on, of all things. a bill dedicating a portion of september in october to hispanic heritage month and prado and she got into an email back and forth which of course my sources made me aware of so we read back and forth emails from the two of them then there were social media posts it was a good old-fashioned cat fight right

Well, it escalated significantly. In November, when apparently Ortiz Veles was texting people saying, if she brings a knife, I'm going to bring, if she's going to bring a gun to a knife fight, you know, the old saying, I'm going to bring an AR-15. Assembly Minority Leader Greta Newbauer actually went to the Capitol Police. Now, this is clearly a figure of speech. This is clearly, do I believe a sitting member of the state legislature is going to shoot up the place with an AR-15 because she's upset over a Hispanic Heritage Month bill. No, nobody actually believes that. It was, okay, heated rhetoric. Maybe it went a little too far. Maybe if you're an insane liberal and you're terrified by the mere mention of an AR-15, you might get freaked out. Greta Newbauer actually went to the Capitol Police and had Sylvia Ortiz's credentials blocked. She was not able to access the Capitol. She was not able to get into the State Capitol. Now, coincidentally, Ortiz Veles was also as a member of the Milwaukee County Board testifying against the apparent Democrat chosen one for Governor David Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive, on Crowley's alleged misbehavior and his alleged illegal seizure of emergency power during COVID. This happened right before Ortiz Veles was scheduled to testify on that. It looked an awful lot like political payback. It was so ridiculous that as soon as Assembly Speaker Robin Voss's office learned that Ortiz Veles' credentials had been revoked and she was barred from the Capitol, they went to the Capitol police and said, look, there is no threat here. Obviously, you need to allow this woman back into the state capital. Right after the assembly's session ended last month, Ortiz Veles faced criminal charges. Interestingly, though, not over the supposed threat to bring an AR-15 to a gunfight. in a debate over a particular piece of legislation, but rather what she had said way back in August and September to Greta Newbauer, Priscilla Prado, and Kalyn Haywood Jr., fellow Democrat representatives who are listed as witness one, witness two, and witness three. Well, I have been able to do a little digging and figure out that they are Haywood, Newbauer, and Priscilla Prado. Ortiz Veles was upset over this Hispanic Heritage Month exclusion. She also has been sort of a thorn in the side of Democrat leadership. In fact, she hasn't caucused with Democrats in quite some time. She is a very independent thinker, and she's voted with Republicans on a number of bills.

She apparently was saying, okay, Priscilla, if you go public with all of this information about me, I am going to talk about whatever, private information. It was not outlined in the criminal complaint. It was something personal, apparently. I am going to go public with you. Haywood and Newbauer were witnesses to this, and again, they go to the Capitol Police. This time, instead of just barring Ortiz-Viles from the Capitol, they file criminal charges. Here's the problem. According to the Wisconsin Constitution, members of the Wisconsin legislature cannot be arrested during the session or for 15 days after a legislative session ends. It is an open question as to whether the state legislature, the state assembly, is actually still in session. The legislature is going to be in session until Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day. The last day of the legislative year is when the state senate meets on the floor and they are going to potentially take up controversial bills such as online sports betting, NIL, that sort of thing. But the state assembly is still working at the state capital. They don't have any floor sessions left, but you could make the case that the legislative session, the assembly session, is still ongoing. That would mean... It is a legal impossibility to arrest or criminally charge someone like Sylvia Ortiz Velas. Still, I maintain even if the assembly session ended after the final floor session, which was, I believe, February 21st, 22nd, somewhere in there. These charges came within 15 days after. It is very possible. It is a legal impossibility, a constitutional impossibility, that this woman was charged to begin with. But then... we get to what she was actually charged with disorderly conduct now when you think of disorderly conduct what do you think of somebody who is loud and maybe a drunken mess maybe there's a fight in a bar maybe somebody is just being harassing being being being just being disorderly in public Here is the statutory requirement for a conviction of disorderly conduct. Whoever, in a public or private place, engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Is Sylvia Ortiz-Viles, a politician?

Telling another politician, Priscilla Prado, I'm going to go to the press to say something about you. Is that violent? No. Abusive? No. Indecent? No. Profane? No. Boisterous? No. Unreasonably loud? No. Otherwise disorderly. No. This is what politicians do. This is, as the saying goes, the Game of Thrones. When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. Or if you're Greta Neubauer, you get people who challenge your authority criminally charged. There is no way in which the statutory burden, in which the burden of proof for a charge of disorderly conduct was met. There is no probable cause here. None of what Sylvia Ortiz-Viles is alleged to have done. Is violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly, and therefore could not be disorderly conduct? So why did she plead no contest? We've got a statement from her that we will read. She put out a press release shortly after she pleaded no contest. That and more next.

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What do they say? March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. I don't buy that. March this year went in like, I don't think a lamb. What would be like a mean farm animal? Like a bull? Maybe not a bull. Maybe like a distempered pig. And then it goes, then you've got like a rabid wolverine at some point in the middle like we're experiencing now. We're apparently going to get a blizzard on the aides of March in two days. And then it goes out like a slightly less distempered pig. March is easily the worst weather month of the entire year here in Wisconsin. Best month for weather? Well, I say July, but I love summer. I love the heat. July is also my birthday. You've got the 4th of July. This year, America's 250th birthday. It's going to be, oh, I just, I can't wait for this summer, even though I'm going to be spending most of it in a knee brace. Yeah, for those who don't know, I did tear my ACL and my meniscus playing basketball with my son. I've had a bad knee for a long time, and it finally just gave out. It finally just said, no moss, old man, to the wheelchair for you. And in... I just scheduled the surgery for mid-May. I've been doing quite a bit of rehab work. I had to get a lot of testing, MRIs, that sort of stuff. Last week, yeah, it was, what, last Saturday, the 28th, February 28th, Toramiasia. The only person who had a worse February 28th than me was the Ayatollah Homonee. All right, back to our big story today. Sylvia Ortiz of Veles pleads no contest. That is not... A guilty plea, it means she is not contesting the charges against her. It sounds like a distinction without a difference, but the lawyer in me knows that is not true. She did not plead guilty. She is not contesting the charges to set up what? Ladies and gentlemen, an inevitable appeal. She is going to appeal the charge. I believe she's got very strong grounds too. And I believe she's got a very strong grounds for malicious prosecution for... possible intentional deprivation of civil rights. She has got any number of potential claims against the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, the Capitol Police. But first and foremost, I think she's going to try to get this knocked out, the charge itself. She's going to try to get busted out on appeal. She wants to. If she pleads guilty, then, okay, well, whatever.

A no contest please says, okay, I'm just going to let the process go. She's going to pay a $300 fine, which should tell you that the Milwaukee DA's office didn't think that this was all that severe of a charge. Class B misdemeanor is punishable by up to nine months in jail. if it was a true disorderly case. What a disorderly conduct charge typically is, is if like, let's say there's a bar fight and it's impossible to say who started it, so there's no possible charge of a possibility of an assault charge or anything like that. Everybody involved will just get a disorderly conduct charge. And depending on the severity at sentencing, you could end up with jail time if you've got a long criminal record. Obviously, a state representative does not have an extensive. criminal record and there's really no indication that she actually did anything that would rise to the level of disorderly conduct now why is it democrats are so hot to trot to target one of their own because she has been a thorn in their sign let's go back to february 20th one of the last days of the legislative session State Representative Shea Sortwell, a Republican, blew the whistle on what apparently has been a common practice for Democrat leadership. They don't want bills passing with any Democrat support. They don't want Republicans to be able to say, I passed this bipartisan bill. So if they get wind that a Democrat is going to vote for a Republican bill, they actually prevent them from going to the floor to vote on it. Sortwell. actually caught Representative Joe Sheehan fleeing from the floor on February 20th instead of voting for the Republican's DPI accountability bills. As the quorum call was going on this morning, I was walking to the assembly chamber, and I saw the representative from the 26th walking the opposite direction. The representative from Sheboygan walking the opposite direction and just laughingly, thinking he was going back to his office to get something. I said, hey, you're going the wrong way. He laughs and he keeps walking. And then we get to the floor. And they ask for a leave for the representative from the 26th. I thought to myself, well, what the heck is going on? And then I thought about a little bit more, I forgot that these bills were on the calendar for today. And we see that maybe this is more of the same from the other side of the aisle. They don't want dissent from their side. They want to make sure, because you know what, the Rep. Reserve for the 26 voted for some of these bills for accountability, for DPI. And just like they always do, they kick people out of the building if they won't fall in line. That is insanely, insanely unethical. And that kicked off a huge blowback by Democrats saying, no, no, no, no, we didn't do this. No, no, no. Democrat leadership would never do this. Now, how you might be asking, does this relate to Sylvia Ortiz-Viles? Because remember, she was criminally charged a couple of days after this blow up by Sortwell.

Well, Ortiz Vallez actually proved that Democrat leadership... Greta Newbauer really did kick members off the floor if they dared to vote for Republican bills. Representative Nate Gustafson, a Republican, asked her flat out on the floor. Hey, Representative Ortiz-Viles, have you ever been barred from the assembly floor because you were going to vote for a Republican bill? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Real quick, I'd like to ask the gentle lady from the 8th if she'd yield to a question. Would the representative from the 8th yield to a question? Is that yes or no? I will, Mr. Speaker. Representative from the 8th will yield to a question. The question is, has the gentle lady from the 8th ever been told to get off the floor and not vote for her district? Representative from the 8th?

Represent from the 8th? The answer is yes, Mr. Speaker. Oh! Three days later, she faces criminal charges. You get it yet? This was political payback from Greta Newbauer and what appears to be her allies in the Capitol Police and an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee. Nothing more. the charge was not supported by the alleged misconduct of sylvia ortees vales did not rise to the level of disorderly conduct in fact it was standard political hardball And it happened just after Ortiz-Viles publicly humiliated Newbauer by confirming on the floor of the state assembly. And yes, we on this show turned this into a statewide issue by posting about it on social media and talking about it extensively on the air that afternoon. So she was embarrassed statewide. She responds. by bringing politically motivated charges. Despicable conduct by Democrats.

St. Patrick's Day bumper music in the Dan O'Donnell show until the big day, which is Tuesday. What do they say? March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. I don't buy that. March this year went in like, I don't think a lamb. What would be like a mean farm animal? Like a bull? Maybe not a bull. Maybe like a distempered pig. And then it goes, then you've got like a rabid wolverine at some point in the middle like we're experiencing now. We're apparently going to get a blizzard on the aides of March in two days. And then it goes out like a slightly less distempered pig. March is easily the worst weather month of the entire year here in Wisconsin. Best month for weather? Well, I say July, but I love summer. I love the heat. July is also my birthday. You've got the 4th of July. This year, America's 250th birthday. It's going to be, oh, I just, I can't wait for this summer, even though I'm going to be spending most of it in a knee brace. Yeah, for those who don't know, I did tear my ACL in my meniscus playing basketball with my son. I've had a bad knee for a long time, and it finally just gave out. It finally just said, no moss, old man, to the wheelchair for you. And in... I just scheduled the surgery for mid-May. I've been doing quite a bit of rehab work. I had to get a lot of testing, MRIs, that sort of stuff. Last week, yeah, it was, what, last Saturday, the 28th, February 28th, Toramiasia. The only person who had a worse February 28th than me was the Ayatollah Homonee. All right, back to our big story today. Sylvia Ortiz of Veles pleads no contest. That is not... A guilty plea, it means she is not contesting the charges against her. It sounds like a distinction without a difference, but the lawyer in me knows that is not true. She did not plead guilty. She is not contesting the charges to set up what? Ladies and gentlemen, an inevitable appeal. She is going to appeal the charge. I believe she's got very strong grounds too. And I believe she's got a very strong grounds for malicious prosecution for... possible intentional deprivation of civil rights. She has got any number of potential claims against the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, the Capitol Police. But first and foremost, I think she's going to try to get this knocked out, the charge itself. She's going to try to get busted out on appeal. She wants to. If she pleads guilty, then, okay, well, whatever.

A no contest please says, okay, I'm just going to let the process go. She's going to pay a $300 fine, which should tell you that the Milwaukee DA's office didn't think that this was all that severe of a charge. Class B misdemeanor is punishable by up to nine months in jail. if it was a true disorderly case. What a disorderly conduct charge typically is, is if like, let's say there's a bar fight and it's impossible to say who started it, so there's no possible charge of a possibility of an assault charge or anything like that, everybody involved will just get a disorderly conduct charge. And depending on the severity at sentencing, you could end up with jail time if you've got a long criminal record. Obviously, a state representative does not have an extensive criminal record. And there's really no indication that she actually did anything that would rise to the level of disorderly conduct. Now, why is it? Democrats are so hot to trot to target one of their own because she has been a thorn in their side. Let's go back to February 20th, one of the last days of the legislative session. State Representative Shea Sortwell, a Republican, blew the whistle on what apparently has been a common practice for Democrat leadership. They don't want bills passing with any Democrat support. They don't want Republicans to be able to say, I passed this bipartisan bill. So if they get wind that a Democrat is going to vote for a Republican bill, they actually prevent them from going to the floor to vote on it. Sortwell. actually caught Representative Joe Sheehan fleeing from the floor on February 20th instead of voting for the Republican's DPI accountability bill. As the quorum call was going on this morning, I was walking to the assembly chamber, and I saw the representative from the 26th walking the opposite direction. The representative from Sheboygan walking the opposite direction and just laughingly, thinking he was going back to his office to get something. I said, hey, you're going the wrong way. He laughs and he keeps walking. And then we get to the floor. And they asked for a leave for the representative from the 26. And I thought to myself, well, what the heck is going on? And then I thought about a little bit more, I forgot that these bills were on the calendar for today. And we see that maybe this is more of the same from the other side of the aisle. They don't want dissent from their side. They want to make sure, because you know what, the representative for the 26 voted for some of these bills for accountability, for DPI.

And just like they always do, they kick people out of the building if they won't fall in line. That is insanely, insanely unethical. And that kicked off a huge blowback by Democrats saying, no, no, no, we didn't do this. No, no, no. Democrat leadership would never do this. Now, how you might be asking, does this relate to Sylvia Ortiz? Because remember, she was criminally charged a couple of days after this blow up by Sortwell. Well, Ortiz Volez actually proved that Democrat leadership... Greta Newbauer really did kick members off the floor if they dared to vote for Republican bills. Representative Nate Gustafson, a Republican, asked her flat out on the floor. Hey, Representative Ortiz-Viles, have you ever been barred from the assembly floor because you were going to vote for a Republican bill? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Real quick, I'd like to ask the gentle lady from the 8th if she'd yield to a question. Would the representative from the 8th yield to a question? Is that yes or no? I will, Mr. Speaker. Representative from the 8th will yield to a question. The question is, has the gentle lady from the 8th ever been told to get off the floor and not vote for her district? Representative from the 8th?

Represent from the 8th? The answer is yes, Mr. Speaker. Oh! Three days later, she faces criminal charges. You get it yet? This was political payback from Greta Newbauer and what appears to be her allies in the Capitol Police and an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee. Nothing more. the charge was not supported by the alleged misconduct of sylvia ortees vales did not rise to the level of disorderly conduct in fact it was standard political hardball And it happened just after Ortiz-Viles publicly humiliated Newbauer by confirming on the floor of the state assembly. And yes, we on this show turned this into a statewide issue by posting about it on social media and talking about it extensively on the air that afternoon. So she was embarrassed statewide. She responds. by bringing politically motivated charges. Despicable conduct by Democrats.

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It's just gone final Big Ten tournament action. The Wisconsin Badgers have defeated Illinois, 91 to 88 in overtime. The Illini tried a last second three, banked off the back iron, and the Badgers come from behind, pull off an incredible second half, come back to make it to the Big Ten tournament semifinals. I think I said a couple of days ago that I thought the Badgers were possibly a bubble team. No, they are absolutely in a very good Big Ten conference. They are probably, what would you say? Producer Doug Russell, our resident sports guy, producing this show today. What would you say? A six seed, seven seed somewhere in there? At worst a six, you think they're a five? I'd rather have them be a six than a five. Everybody knows about those five, twelve matchups in the NCAA tournament. Selection Sunday is this Sunday. So that means next week we all have to pretend like we know something about college basketball. And all I know is that my mark at Golden Eagles were terrible this year, but hopefully they're going to be better next year. All right, we're going to have to pause for time here. Both producer Doug and I were watching the end of the Badgers game. So neither of us got ready for the daily Trump date. We're going to let Doug get those sound bites in. We had both President Trump and JD Vance. out on the road today. If you would like to join the Dan O'Donnell Show, 414799, 1130, or 1-800-8389-4-76, email, DOD at iHeartMedia.com at Dan O'Donnell Show on X, on Facebook, on Instagram. We are streaming live everywhere on our YouTube channel. Also, please do subscribe to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast on IHeartRadio or wherever you listen. to podcast. Yeah, normally I would be upset that you weren't ready for the next segment, Doug, but we were both talking about old radio stories. We were talking about Gordon Hinkley randomly. God rest his soul or old Gordy. We're telling old Gordon Hinkley stories and watching the Wisconsin basketball game. Just in case you wonder how we spend our commercial breaks. Gordy, God rest his soul. How long has he been gone? Probably about a decade. About a decade. Boy, what a wonderful guy. Everybody, nobody believes me. When I say my first, like Gordon Hinkley, radio legend, I was doing news when he was doing Ask Your Neighbor and he was doing some of the Saturday programming on WTMJ. And nobody believes me. I said, the man had like the dirtiest old man jokes. Like everybody, everybody in radio, even like the most revered figures, they're guys, right? They do, you know, this is why, this is why, having grown up, having literally grown up in radio and television newsrooms, I started in this business when I was 19. I knew exactly what Trump was talking about when he was talking about the Access Hollywood tape and said it's locker room talk. This is just how dudes talk. Yes, I can tell you, in press boxes, in newsrooms.

Even Gordon Hinkley, who at the time was probably about 87 years old, was telling me dirty jokes, which I love because I'm some 22-year-old nobody, and yet he's cracking his dirty jokes like, you know, I'm the most important guy in the world, did love Gordy quite a bit. All right, time now for the Daily Trump Day. We're going to win so much. You may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration. It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning. We have to win more. We're going to win more. Producer Doug's in my ear telling me what of Gordy's favorite old dirty jokes. You've got to stop that. I'm going to start laughing before I do the Trump day. Speaking of Access Hollywood, did you see that? Access Hollywood just got canceled. We may get into that NBC Universal is stopping all first run syndicated daytime programming. The Steve Wilco's show is also being axed. This is yet another sort of admission in the YouTube era, in the era of social media, that it is very, very difficult for broadcast television to find audiences during off hours. I mean, think about when's the last time you watched a broadcast television show that wasn't a sporting event? When's the last time you watched, you know, one of the cold case file shows or what was it going? Are they still doing CSI? I don't know. I watch so little television. I have no idea. All right. Daily Trump Day, your daily look at what's going on in Donald Trump's Washington, the president sat down for an interview with, of all people, Jake Paul, the boxer and former YouTube viral video star. is a huge Trump supporter. And Trump said at a recent event with Paul that he is a very big fan of his and would endorse Paul if he ran for any office. Well, Jake Paul does a podcast and interviewed the president today. The president talked about why the strikes on Iran were necessary. This country, I mean, we did this excursion. We had to do it. Wipe out evil. Sometimes you have evil. And for 47 years, they've been killing people, you know, in the most violent way. The roadside bombs all over the place. That was 95% of them are from Iran. Salamani. That was the one which came out. We did a lot of things to beat two bombers. And all of this whole thing that we're doing now is people have waited for 47 years for it to happen. So we have to do it right. But our military has been unbelievable. All six airmen on board an aircraft that went down over the in Iraq, I should say, due to what's believed to be mechanical failure, are confirmed to be dead today. And Vice President JD Vance, who is on location in North Carolina today, touting the president's economic agenda, offered prayers for them and for all those service members serving in the war against Iran. There are a lot of people from the state of North Carolina who are in harm's way right now. And so I want all of us, when we go home, we leave this event, I want all of us to say a prayer.

Not just for the North Carolinians, but for the people of all of our 50 states who put on the uniform and are willing to sacrifice for the safety and security and freedom of the United States of America. I want every single person, I want you to tell every single person who is serving overseas in harm's way that this crowd in North Carolina has their back. Thank you all. Now, the stated purpose of the vice president's visit was to tout President Trump's economic accomplishments and try to boost support ahead of the midterms. JD Vance did that, of course. In just a very brief time, we've seen new... Home purchases rise to their highest level in five years since the last time Donald Trump was president. We've seen the cost of rents drop for six months in a row. We've seen the average tax refund that's going to come to the people of North Carolina about $3,700 per family, and we see interest rates that are the lowest they've been since the last time that Donald J. Trump was president. My friends, the president is impatient. He's the most impatient person I have ever met, in fact. He constantly is pressing on the gas. He wants us to do more, but I stand here proud to say that after the first year of President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans' leadership, we are rebuilding the American dream and we are taking back this country for the people of this state. Now, back to the president's interview with Jake Paul. Since it was Jake Paul, he asked President Trump if he had ever been in a fight. Have you ever been in a fight? I heard a rumor about you, like, helping Kobe one time at a game. Is that a true story? Was it a true story? Well, it wasn't a fight. I was breaking up a fight. Okay, okay. Which sometimes is more dangerous than being in a fight, right? But I like Kobe. Kobe was having a... A hard time with somebody and it worked out fine, but yeah, I broke it up. Probably not a smart thing to do. Historically, it's never good to break up fights. Yeah. Wait, what? President Trump and Kobe Bryant were in a fight? This is news to me. Of course, I had to look this up. And apparently, this is at the NBA All-Star weekend in 1998. The players, including Kobe Bryant, who at the time was very, very young, were staying at Trump's hotels, the Grand Hyatt. Now, this is from sports writer Jeff Perlman. A verbal exchange escalated in an elevator between Bryant and veteran player Jason Williams, who is playing with the New Jersey Nets. Williams reportedly took offense to Kobe's casual response to a greeting, failing to show proper respect as an old school vet. He lunged at him and started punching. Trump also happened to be in the elevator along with Charles Oakley. He stepped in to separate them, grabbing Williams and telling Kobe to get out quickly to de-escalate the situation before it got worse. What?

Donald Trump, Jason Williams, he was like 6'11 and known as like an NBA enforcer. He was like a big tough dude. Charles Oakley of the New York Knicks, also big tough dude. And it's Trump? Who is leaping? He's putting his hands on Jason Williams. I don't know if he thought, okay, well, you know, Trump at the time would have been a relatively older guy. He would have been, what, in his 50s? I would say back then if he thought there's no way that this guy is going to, or maybe he thought as maybe he thought as the owner of the hotel, he wouldn't get popped. I don't know. I think we broke some remarkable news on the Jake Paul podcast because apparently this was a long rumored thing. Pearlman apparently put it in his book on Kobe Bryant, which is like sort of the definitive retelling. And it appears that Donald Trump just confirmed this longstanding. Rumor. An exclusive story here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Governor Evers is apparently refusing to hold signing ceremonies for Republican-authored bills. He's accused of playing politics with his bill signings in, of course, this all-important gubernatorial and legislative election year. The governor has refused to hold signing ceremonies for two significant bills that happen to be authored by Republicans, and he didn't even inform either of those Republican authors that he was signing their bills, even though they were in the Capitol at the time. Earlier today... State Representative Barb Dietrich, who is a Republican from Oconomowoc, said the governor's office never informed her that he had signed her bill allowing law enforcement officers to test drivers for multiple controlled substances. The measure passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. Ebers neither held a signing ceremony to highlight its passage nor to inform anyone that he was signing it. Now, obviously... The governor is under no obligation to hold a big signing ceremony to invite people who will be impacted by the bill. But this would seem like a pretty big one. It was a good bill that Representative Dietrich got in because now law enforcement officers aren't just going to be able to test for alcohol, but also marijuana, other controlled substances. And this is a significant step forward. This is a bill that would obviously be praised by law enforcement officers, obviously. be praised you could get people who lost loved ones to drunk or impaired driving. You could get together and you could sign this bill. But what's clear is that Evers didn't want to give Dietrich or Republicans who are the driving forces behind this bill any credit. The far bigger one.

was last week. Representative Amanda Ned Westy, who's a Republican from Pleasant Prairie, authored a very significant bill. It, for the first time in Wisconsin history, makes child grooming a crime. Or if you are grooming an underage person for the purposes of sex, if you're trying to gain a relationship with the child to... eventually start a sexual relationship. I think everybody knows what grooming is. This actually passed the state senate unanimously. And there was only minor opposition. There were six Democrats out of 99 total state representatives in the assembly who voted against this. One of them happened to be Francesca Hong, the leading candidate for governor right now for the Democrats. For some reason, Francesca Hong is very, very pro-child grooming. Right? I mean, isn't this what Democrats do if you vote against the bill? You must be pro the thing that that bill is trying to stop. So I guess we can refer to her as pro-child grooming state representative and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong. Now, what she said and what another pro-groomer Ryan Clancy said about the bill is rather ridiculously, it would criminalize teachers giving hugs to students. Once again, the tweet, the problem with modern discourse is that liberals pretend not to know things, thus making discourse impossible. It is proven true over and over and over again. Clearly, we are not criminalizing hugging a student. We are criminalizing the sort of behavior that we outlined a couple of days ago in the massive teacher sex scandal at Oconto Falls High School, where there was grooming behavior clearly going on by a tech education teacher and an assistant volleyball coach who is now criminally charged with sexual abuse of children. And there was apparently a longstanding quarter century pattern of cover up. Now, this is a significant piece of legislation, the anti-child grooming bill. You would think that this would be one that Governor Evers would want to hold a signing ceremony on to say, yes, we are cracking down on crimes against children. He did not. Ned Westy, too, had no idea that the bill was even signed until afterwards. She put out a hastily written press release saying, oh, hey, my bill was signed into law. She was never actually told about it. Now, meanwhile. Ivers is signing, he's planning major signing ceremonies for two Democrat authored bills, one on breast cancer, another on postpartum care. You might remember that one. There was the big controversy where Republicans supposedly caved because they realized how terrible their posture was. Well, of course, Evers is going to hold a big signing ceremony for that one, also the breast cancer bill because they were authored by Democrats. Ivers does not want to give Republicans any credit whatsoever because he is deathly afraid.

that Republicans will be able to hold onto their state legislative majorities, even though he's not running for re-election. His handlers, the people who are actually running the governor's mansion in this state, are terrified that Republicans might actually defy the odds, and they might actually hold on to the state legislature and horror of horrors. Tom Tiffany might actually win the governor's race. And with proposed bills like the one I'm going to report... on next it's entirely possible another dan o'donnell show exclusive republicans are excuse me democrats are introducing a bill that would create a brand new entity authorized to levy even more property taxes on you you're not going to want to miss this dan o'donnell exclusive coming up next Democrats are trying desperately to avoid blame for the massive increase in property taxes that were brought about by Governor Evers' 400-year veto. From 2024 to 2025, we saw the single biggest jump in average property tax increases in 30 years. 30 years, three decades, and it just happened to be the first year that Governor Evers' 400-year property tax veto was in place. Rather obviously, people started to get the idea that, hey, maybe it was Governor Evers and Democrats that are responsible for this massive hike in property taxes. Democrats said, no, no, no, no, no. Their allies said, no, no, no, it's, you see, this confluence of factors that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact. that the governor used the most unconstitutional veto I've ever seen to allow school districts to just automatically add $325 per pupil per year. to their property tax levies for the next 400 years. That could not possibly have had anything to do with the dramatic spike in property taxes. Well, the Dan O'Donnell Show has learned exclusively that Democrats are now pushing a new bill that would allow municipalities to form an emergency service district that would be empowered to levy. Say it with me. property taxes as well as impose special charges and issue debt. This according to a circulation memo we obtained today. The proposal is known as LRB 2019 slash 1. It comes from representatives Clinton Anderson and Lori Palmary along with state Senator Mark Spritzer. All of them are Democrats. Under the bill. Participating municipalities could create a separate district as a special purpose government unit that they could transfer assets into. They can also transfer some of their taxing authority and responsibilities into. This is basically aimed at communities that lose their independent fire departments, their independent police departments, when you have the merging.

of law enforcement or fire departments into various communities. It becomes more of like a regional thing. This is what this is aimed at. Under this bill, an elected board of district residents would oversee operations. Now, the bill's authors say that since this is an optional structure, it'll promote efficiency, it'll sustain high quality service. But what this actually does is open the door to yet another layer of government bureaucracy that burdens taxpayers further. If you remember how the... 400-year veto worked. In 2023, Governor Evers used his partial veto authority from the school funding portion of the state budget. And he allowed, the Republican legislature said, okay, we're going to allow for two years only under this budget school districts to impose $325 per pupil. per year in increases to the property levy, the property tax levy, so that we can get more money and we don't have to go to referendum for it. It was a compromise with Governor Evers. Evers used the partial veto authority to strike down the 23 and dash in 2023-2020. No, 2023-24 and 2024-24-25. He basically struck down dashes and numbers to turn that into the year 24-25. Average tax bills jumped 5% in one year. Biggest increase in 30 years. Biggest portion of that increase, no real surprise, the property tax levy from schools. So Democrats are saying, well, we aren't in favor of increased property taxes. At the same time, they're circulating for co-sponsorship, a bill that would create a brand new taxing authority. So not only would you be taxed by your local school board, not only could you be potentially taxed by your municipality, your city government, you can also now be taxed by this regional authority board.

which has more elected positions, presumably more bureaucratic bloat, and no real purpose other than to, it seems, soak taxpayers. Why Democrats are and have been so bad on taxes, so bad on rates, and if elected in November will only cost you more money. Coming up next when the Dan O'Donnell show returns, it's classical conservatism and contemporary style. Ready, set, summer with the Honda Summer event. With available features like all-terrain tires and off-road tuned suspension, the rugged Honda pilot, bridgeline, CRV, and passport. Have all you need to get summer ready with the most fuel-efficient full-line automaker in America. Visit your local Honda dealer today. See Dealer for financing details. Based on EPA estimate of 24 large full-line automaker fleet-wide fuel economy, EPA Automotive Trends Report 2025.

What is going on with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? I'm serious. Big story today, JSOnline.com, about how former lieutenant governor and Senate candidate, Mandela Barnes, his plans to freeze utility rates is very likely not possible under Wisconsin law. Democrats never get this sort of treatment. I'm telling you, folks, they are all terrified that Mandela is going to win this nomination. Frankly, I think they should be more scared of Francesca Hong. Mandela is, the Democrats are well aware of Mandela's shortcomings. They know he lost in an election that... For the most part, he wasn't supposed to lose against Ron Johnson. Ron Johnson in 2022 was the number one target of national Democrats. They wanted him gone. They hate Ron Johnson. And the field was cleared for Mandela Barnes. Democrats literally rigged their Senate primary by forcing Sarah Godluski and Alex Lazarie to drop out. While votes were being cast, mail-in ballots had been mailed out, and both of those two dropped out of the race. Now, why would they do that unless they were told to drop out? Godluski, of course, got paid off. She gave up her seat as state treasurer in order to run for Senate. Well, Doug LaFalette won re-election for the 578th consecutive time that November. He immediately retired, and Governor Evers, in what was very clearly a preordained deal, just named Sarah Godluski to serve as Secretary of State. So she got to continue to have a statewide order. elected office so she could run for higher office in twenty twenty six she clearly wants to run for senate but she's going to settle for lieutenant governor because she thought that she was never going to go anywhere in that crowded field Mandela Barnes Instantly, upon getting into this race in November, was met with a whole lot of skepticism. First, the New York Times published an article quoting both named Democrats and unnamed sources within the Democrat Party saying exactly what we've been saying here on this show, that Mandela is an unusually weak candidate because, frankly, he's not especially bright. He's not especially politically savvy. And he's got a whole lot of baggage in both his professional and personal life. Immediately after that, a black-owned newspaper in Milwaukee called the Milwaukee Courier came out with an editorial piece that said, hey, Mandela, you are not going to get the support automatically of Milwaukee's black community that you did last time because, again, he's already lost statewide. If I were the Democrats, I would be concerned about Francesca Hong.

She's just as stupid and has just as bad policies as Mandela, just as messy of a personal life with a bitter divorce that may actually involve Mandela more than many people think. She also is a vulgar, just from all accounts, nasty human being. And she would be thoroughly rejected by voters. In fact, Tom Tiffany has got to be licking his chops at the fact that the two leading candidates right now are Mandela Barnes and Francesca Hong. Personally, I believe at least on paper, the strongest candidate would probably be Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. But again, he's proven himself to be so remarkably incompetent as evidenced by the fact that he allowed the county's health insurance plan to lapse. You know how like when you have, usually it's what, October, November, your company will send out the notice, okay, time to sign up for the health insurance plan again. How many times have you just kind of forgotten to do that? How many times did your family just not have health insurance because you didn't fill out the required paperwork? I'm taking a while, guess, probably never. Well, David Crowley did, and it affected not just his family, but the entire county. Every single county employee and a whole bunch of county retirees who are still on the health care plan apparently didn't have coverage or at least had some sort of lapsing coverage. for the better part of three weeks. Now, he claims there was never any lapse, but for whatever reason, he just decided that the Milwaukee County Board didn't need to know about this when absolutely it did. So he's still dealing with the ramifications of that. And as a result, I think, he has just gone nowhere in the polls. The latest Marquette University Law School poll shows him as an afterthought. Democrats' best chance to get a sort of non-crazy candidate is probably going to be Sarah Rodriguez, the current lieutenant governor, who is rather obviously hated by her own administration. It's actually kind of remarkable how much the Tony Evers people despise Sarah Rodriguez. I think I'm going to get into that at some point. I've got some insight into why it is those two sides hate each other and why it is that they despise Sarah Rodriguez so much. But the point is that Mandela came out with a typical... Lib response. Hey, we're going to freeze all of the utility rates. We're not going to allow those evil utility companies like Wii energies to jack up rates. And normally the media would just sort of act as stenographers and they would dutifully report. Yes, yes, Mandela is saying this and wouldn't it be great if all of the rates were frozen? And here we're going to talk to a couple of widows and some disabled people and minorities who say, oh, yes, this would benefit us greatly. Essentially, it would be just doing PR for whatever Democrat

proposal was put out there. Not so. They actually talked to UW Madison professors who said, no, in practice, you can't actually freeze rates. Now, everybody with a brain knows that you absolutely can't freeze rates. And as we said on this show, it was hilarious coming from Mandela, who was part of the Evers administration, who approved $2.2 billion worth of rate increases by the utility companies. Now compare that with Governor Scott Walker, when his nominees gain control of the Public Service Commission, the PSC, which is the board that authorizes those rate hikes. Essentially, we energies and Alliance and the big energy companies, they can't just jack rates up. Because they are government-sanctioned monopolies, they have to go to the PSC and ask whether or not they're allowed to raise rates. Well, Governor Evers appointees to the PSC... would only approve 25% of the requested rate hikes for a total of 300 million over Walker's term. Evers' appointees have greenlit 71% of rate increases for a total of $2.2 billion.

So people are noticing, hey, my utility bill is way higher. I am paying way more to heat my house. Obviously, the heaters are going to be working overtime this weekend with all of the snow that's coming. Electricity bills, those are going up and people notice. The mere fact that Mandela is seeing this as an issue that he can make hay on. tells me that he is seeing that people are ticked off about utility rates. Now, too bad it's Mandela's party that's responsible for the rate increases. But the single biggest thing I think that people are p-oed about in Wisconsin right now is the property tax rates. Utility bills, property taxes, the fact that in a very short amount of time, we are paying way more for the exact same house that we used to own that we've always owned and the exact same. amount of square footage that you need to light and heat it. There is significant political advantage here for Republicans. Democrats have done nothing but jack property tax rates. In fact, under Governor Walker, do you remember that there were revenue limit controls that Walker and the Republican legislature placed on local government? They actually took out the state portion of the property tax levy. Every single year, that's been estimated to save taxpayers $85 million per year, every single year. And as a result of this, under the Walker era, under the Walker administration from 2011 to 2019, overall property tax levies, they increased very, very slightly. Property taxes were not a big issue. The K-12 portion of property tax bills rose 7.8% in the past year after Governor Evers 400-year veto. That's the biggest increase since 1992. we have seen the single biggest total property tax levy increase in 30 years any way you slice it governor evers and his democrat allies who are pushing this 400 year property tax levy this this veto They're responsible. They're responsible for the massive increases in utility bills. They're responsible for the massive increases in property taxes. And if Republicans are smart, they will use this as the electoral issue this November. This is the Dan O'Donnell Show. We name the Unsung Hero of the Day. Next.

Coming up next hour here on the Dan O'Donnell show, some potentially very, very good news about the Save America Act coming from Senator Mike Lee, who is a huge supporter of it. Also, a county clerk in Illinois appears to be saying the quiet part out loud about why the Save America Act is so necessary. Because illegal aliens absolutely are voting in DuPage County, Illinois. We'll get to that. Plus, UW Madison's faculty and teacher, student teacher unions are holding... ICE is a bunch of Nazis training sessions. First of all, they're about a year late on this. This was all the rage. Last spring, you might remember, we broke this story here on the Dan O'Donnell Show about Governor Ivers putting out a memo that became a big national story because it was clearly telling state employees to interfere in ICE investigations or law enforcement investigations. It was sort of lost in the shuffle because... literally a week later, maybe not even a week later. I think we broke the Evers story on Thursday. And then the following Monday, we broke the much bigger story that Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County judge, had actually helped an illegal alien, violent criminal defendants sneak out of her courtroom through the jury room because ICE was there looking to bring him in. But now, UW Madison's faculty and graduate student teacher's assistant unions are doing trainings of their own. And we will get into that exclusive story. Plus our Fun Friday segment, how bizarre, strangest stories of the past seven days. We will also chat. With a man who I believe is the most effective local Republican Party chairman in the state, Terry Dietrich of the Waukesha County Republican Party, we will chat about his Wiss Red initiative that we're actually partnering with this year here on the Dan O'Donnell Show to create the ultimate conservative voter guide. It is a list of as many conservative candidates. running in the upcoming spring election that we could find. We are going to unveil this one week from Monday, Monday, March 23rd. We are going to put online the ultimate conservative voter guide for the spring election as part of a broader web initiative that we will be telling you more about next week here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

Today's unsung heroes of the day are unfortunately no longer with us. They are the six crew members aboard a KC-135 refueling aircraft who were killed today in a crash over Western Iraq. The military has confirmed was not due to hostile fire. It is believed that there was some sort of mechanical malfunction or potentially inclement weather or a combination of both that led to that crash. The death toll for Americans serving in the war in Iran has now hit 13, and we do pray for the souls of all of them. We thank everyone serving in uniform during this conflict. for their service. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show. We'll be right back after the news. Final hour of a busy broadcast week as we all prepare to hunker down ahead of a major winter storm that could drop as much as two feet of snow on northern Wisconsin. It's sounding like here in southern Wisconsin it's probably going to come down mostly as rain, freezing rain and snow that has a tendency to drop down the snow totals, but it's no less dangerous because we are going to see a lot of ice that could lead to power outages. That could lead to a whole lot of bad stuff. So as always, stay weather aware. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is offering an update on the terror attack against the synagogue yesterday in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Let's go very briefly to that press conference. Again, it's not a time to make a plan at the door. That's why you have to train in advance, communicate in advance, and then execute. when something like this begins to happen. Security did a great job. Staff did a great job. First responders did a great job. And it doesn't come without training. There's been questions about, well, it's kind of coincidental that there was training at the temple. fairly recently and is it connected or was there something suspected the answer is no we're training all the time as agencies with our partners with our houses of worship with our schools and that was one of those such trainings there was no credible intelligence or belief that it was about to get hit but it's ongoing training throughout the community and they did a great job executing that training Also, I'd like to thank the community at large, who has really poured out their support and affection for everyone involved. The Jewish community, first and foremost, has been, I think, uplifted and hugged from our community, and that's appreciated and is encouraged. If you know someone in the Jewish community, tell them you're with them. You stand against anti-Semitism. It's not tolerable on any level, anywhere, period.

And also I'd like to thank, in addition to all of our partners, the Shenandoah Country Club and the Chaldean Community, which served a lot of things, incident command post and reunification center. They jumped right in and did everything they could. and did that day, and they continue to do so to this day. And then finally, everyone here at this facility where we moved on day two has been amazing to make the facility and capability and staff available. It's those kinds of things. When you see the worst in humanity, you see the best. And we've seen the best in humanity respond to that here in this community. That is Michael Bouchard. He is the Oakland County Sheriff giving an update on the terror attack from West Bloomfield, Michigan yesterday, where a suspect identified to be a naturalized citizen from Lemadon. drove a car into a synagogue. His plan was to get out and just open fire. Fortunately, there was a school that is attached to that synagogue. It was not in session right now. We're getting an update now for the West Bloomfield Police Chief. I don't think there's a whole lot more to update other than the identity of the suspect. We can now surmise that Islamist terrorism was the motive here. And this was actually the fifth terror attack or attempted terror attack in the United States in just the first couple of days of March after Operation Epic Fury began in Iran. We saw at Gracie Mansion outside of the Gracie Mansion, the New York City mayor's home, there was an anti-Islamist protest by a white nationalist group led by Jake Lang. And there were a couple of children of naturalized citizens who threw improvised explosive devices into the crowd there. And but for the quick thinking of a pair of truly heroic New York City police officers, those could have exploded and those could have caused tremendous damage and loss of life. Of course, this all kicked off with just hours after the Iran attack. You saw a naturalized citizen from Africa, an Islamist sympathizer, wearing a sweatshirt reading, Property of Allah, open fire at a bar in Austin, Texas, killing multiple people.

before he turned the gun on himself. We saw two separate terror attacks yesterday. One, a naturalized citizen who was a former member of the National Guard attacked an ROTC classroom, killing a decorated American veteran who was teaching a class. And he shouted Alahou Akbar. This guy was previously convicted of providing material support to ISIS a decade ago. He gets out of prison, goes right back to terrorism. Here's where the story just takes quite a turn. The Razi cadets who were in the classroom beat and stabbed the terrorist to death. According to a press release and press conference yesterday in which the FBI special agent in charge in Norfolk, Virginia, where ODU's campus is, she was trying desperately not to say, yeah, the cadets viciously beat this guy to death in self-defense. Obviously, this was a self-defense case. He opened fire and killed their teacher, and they just... punched him and beat him and stabbed him until he was, I believe the special agent put it, no longer alive. She said, I don't know how to put this. He is no longer alive. Folks, we have a very real issue. with people who get into this country, not just illegally, but also as refugees, also as part of Operation Allies Welcome, which brought 100,000 Afghans into this country, many of whom were not, in fact, properly vetted. following the disastrous pullout of Afghanistan at the very beginning of the very disastrous Biden administration. We were bringing in people from Syria. We were bringing in people from Yemen. We are bringing in people from terror hotspots that, frankly, hold terrorist sympathies, and we are seeing people who have become naturalized citizens that just in the last couple of weeks are committing unspeakable acts of evil. denaturalization and deportation needs to be a very serious weapon used in the war on terror because folks we are going to see i believe homegrown terror attacks and attacks on synagogues attacks on jewish community programs and schools and that sort of thing with increasing frequency because of the unfettered rage against the toppling of the Ayatollah. All right, let's switch gears very quickly. Dan O'Donnell Show exclusive, UW Madison's Faculty Union, the UFAS, as well as its Teachers Aid Union, the TAA, are holding a pair of events in support of, quote, resisting ice terror.

According to flyers that have gone up across the UW Madison campus, they are holding events March 16th, that's Monday, in the engineering lab at 10 a.m. and then again on March 27th at the Soils Building on Observatory Drive. Of course, we have raised fist graphics on these flyers. And it says, know your rights. Wondering what to do if ICE shows up in the building, want to learn how to talk about your rights with coworkers, interested in working with others so that none of us stand alone. We got you. Come learn about your rights when dealing with immigration agents. We'll go over basics. Talk about how to develop a plan for your workplace and discuss how your union can support resisting ICE terror. Now this. of course, raises a very interesting question. How many illegal aliens does the University of Wisconsin-Madison employ? Because this is specifically for university employees, right? This is specifically for, if it's being put on by the faculty union and the teacher's aid union, it would be presumably for faculty members and teachers' aides. How many illegals are in UW Madison? This is the exact same question I asked last year when Governor Evers put out a ridiculous memo saying that if an ICE agent shows up to a state office building, you are to essentially lock them in a conference room while you shuttle all of the illegal alien employees out the back door. You think I'm kidding? That was essentially the gist of the memo. It became a national controversy because it very much was encouraging state employees to obstruct active legitimate law enforcement investigations. Now, of course, as always, the UW Faculty Association and Teachers Aid Association are saying, well, this is just, this is just, you know, we're informing people of their rights. What we know in these training sessions, this is not. what goes on they're not just saying okay here is what your rights are here is what you can and can't do they are being instructed to actively impede these investigations and again if u w madison is not actively employing illegal aliens which again it is against federal law and i believe against state law as well to employ illegal aliens then why is this necessary to begin with? It is the same thing that sort of underpins Democrat resistance to the Save America Act. Over the last couple of days, we have been documenting Democrat leaders, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer, bizarrely saying that ICE agents will start showing up at the polls if the Save America Act passes. Now, Illegal aliens are absolutely barred from voting. So why would ICE agents be there unless, of course, illegal aliens are actually voting? Well, Gene Casmeric, who is the county clerk in DuPage County, Illinois, put out a video...

that all but confirms that she knows illegal aliens are voting. It is one of these ridiculous, hey, we're going to protect you against ICE videos. But it actually sets up, she sets up an alternative polling place. She says, okay, if ICE is at your polling place and you are worried about ICE because, of course, you're an illegal alien who should not be voting. Don't worry. You can go vote at any other polling place in DuPage County. Should ICE be spotted at the polls? My office will alert rapid responders on the streets. Instantly contact election judges at polling places and use social media to get the word out to the people of DuPage County. DuPage County voters can vote anywhere in the county. So if an ICE presence is reported at any polling place, you can go to dupach County.gov slash vote anywhere for a list of all 248 polling places in the county for an interactive map to find an alternative polling place near you. Okay, so again, why would we need this warning? Because we are told illegal immigrants do not vote. We are told that voting fraud is such a minor thing. We don't even need the Save America Act. We don't even need photo ID. We don't need proof of citizenship. We don't need any of it because this never happens. This is the crime that absolutely never happens. And especially illegal aliens, they are so terrified of the consequences for illegal voting. None of them would ever try. Okay. So then why is the... clerk of DuPage County saying, okay, hey, all you illegal aliens who are showing up at a polling place, if an ICE agent is there, don't worry, you just get out of there and will still allow you to vote at any other polling place in DuPage County. You talk about saying the quiet part out loud when you are actually going so far as to put out a video warning people that ICE agents might show up at the polls. And if they do show up at the polls, if you're an illegal alien voter, you can just vote elsewhere. So what is the status of the Save America Act? Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that it was going to go up for a vote before the full Senate next. week. Now, I said, okay, great, that doesn't matter because it's going to get filibustered. And unless there is filibuster reform, unless there is a vote to go back to what's known as the talking filibuster, where there actually is a filibuster instead of someone just saying, hey, I'm going to filibuster and then the bill essentially dies until there's a cloture vote with 60 votes, something that's never going to happen on the Save America Act. It's essentially a moot point because there's just no way that this bill is ever going to pass. So what exactly is John Thune doing? Is he just putting this forward in order to say he put it forward and then watch it die? A lot of conservatives thought so. Well, Mike Lee, who is one of the biggest supporters of the Save America Act.

He put out a video today saying he's been in negotiations with John Thune's office. He had a number of other senators who are supportive of the Save America Act. And he said there's been significant progress and that he is confident there is a way that this bill will not just come up, but will actually be voted on. Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed. Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We've turned kind of a corner. Over the last few days, there's been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will be and will not be using. In the end, we've been working closely with John Thune and his staff, and they've been great to work with. What we're coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster. But look, let's not get mired down in nomenclature. What matters far more than what we call it is what we do with it. We're going to bring it to the floor. We're going to debate it for an extended period of time before. filing cloture. And in my view, at least, I don't want to speak for anyone else. This bill needs to remain on the Senate floor before we file cloture on the bill for as long as it takes to get it done. Now, the fact that John Thune in his office have been willing to work with us on this, and they appear open to a variation of that is a good thing. So let's keep up the momentum. Let's encourage them to continue to do this. Let's put the bill on the floor. Let's make those who want a filibuster speak and keep it on there as long as possible. All right. That is Senator Mike Lee of Utah. I'll believe that when I see it. Frankly, I... I don't think there's any real appetite to get this thing past. I have also been hearing that you have got Lisa Murkowski against the Save America Act. I believe Mitch McConnell is against it. Susan Collins is against it. John Fetterman, a Democrat who has been increasingly siding with Republicans over the past year. He has come out against it. There is a very narrow tightrope that you would need to walk even to get 51. votes or 50 votes with vice president JD Vance casting the deciding one in order to get this thing passed and then of course let's say it gets past let's say miracle of miracles they do get this hybrid talking filibuster cloture reform whatever passed what do you think is going to immediately happen Democrats are going to sue over it, and of course it's going to go before the D.C. Circuit and Chief Judge James Bospurg, who we opened the show talking about with respect to his completely inappropriate shutting down of a legitimate U.S. Attorney's Office investigation. He would simply issue an injunction against it so that the Save America Act would not be in place for the upcoming 2026 November midterm election. And in fact, you could get a court of appeals to say, look, it's just not enough time to get people to have their birth certificate to be able to prove citizenship. Let's not kid ourselves, folks. This would face significant challenges. Now, I remain...

Like Lee, guardedly optimistic that we are going to see this sort of meaningful electoral reform. But let's not kid ourselves that even if it does pass the Senate, even if President Trump does sign it into law. Then the courts get at it and what we have understood about what the courts are doing in the age of Donald Trump. And that is to just obstruct as much as possible, not to issue rulings that are supported by the Constitution or federal law. In fact, it's the exact opposite. What's going on is these rulings, the judges know, I am convinced Boseberg with all the ridiculous rulings that he has issued over the past several months. They know they're going to get struck down on appeal and certainly struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court if it goes that far. The issue and the aim. is to just get a temporary injunction so that Trump is slowed down. So he can't do whatever it is he wants. If you get an injunction against the Save America Act and we get to a critical point in this election cycle, say we get close enough to the primaries in given states, a number of states have already had their primaries. If you get to that point, well, then the courts can say, all right, we're too close. There is no way that people are able to prove who they are. Meanwhile... Back here in the real world, everyone knows it's remarkably easy to be able to prove citizenship and to be able to prove who you are. But the point is that they would want to delay it. And again, I'm getting way ahead of myself. I have some serious doubts that it's ever going to pass the Senate. I don't think there is going to be meaningful filibuster reform. I think we're going to be stuck with this 60 vote threshold, at least until the very second that Democrats retake control of the presidency. the House and the Senate, they'll get rid of the filibuster instantly to get passed with 51 votes, whatever they want to get passed. When we come back, how bizarre strangest stories of the past seven days? Our fun weekly segment coming up next.

conservative thought not just talk it is the dan o'd donnell show welcome back to it coming up in i'd say about 10 minutes 15 minutes or so we are going to be talking with walkershaw county republican party chairman uh terry dietrich He is the founder of the WISRED initiative. It is a voter guide as well as a comprehensive assistance for spring candidates in Waukesha County, one of the most important Republican counties in the entire state. We are actually partnering with WISRED here at the Dan O'Donnell Show this year. We are putting together the ultimate conservative voter guide, not just Waukesha County, but all 72 counties. Every single county, we are going to have a list of... conservative candidates. It is the biggest conservative voter guide in the history of Wisconsin. I can say that with absolute confidence. We are putting the final touches on it. We are going to debut it a week from Monday, March 23rd, the day before in-person absentee voting starts. We are going to be running once again the state's largest early vote drive, and we are going to be doing better know a candidate where candidates, local conservative candidates, call in all day long. We're doing this in conjunction with Ben Yaut and Jason Gotts on WISN, so it is going to be an entire day devoted to local elections. Right now, we devote some time to the silliest stories of the past week. It is our weekly segment. Cala Zhaalbizan. On his podcast this week, NBA retired superstar Lamar Odom, a former teammate and friend of the late Kobe Bryant, said Kobe visited him in a dream and apparently said the afterlife, that ain't all that great. And he looked back at me, he said, hello. Afterlife is not what people make it up to be. And then I woke up.

Shortly after that, and I just made me think, like, what is he trying to say? Like, you know, could be he missed everybody, you know. Um... It can mean a multitude of things. A multitude. A multitude. A multitude of things. It could mean. Look, I am not, I am not going to make fun of this. I am not going to say, I'm not going to bring up the fact that Lamar Odom is an admitted former heavy drug user. People have these sort of encounters all the time. But what do you mean? He's not, the afterlife is not what it... When it's cracked up to it. What did Jesus beat him in a game of horse? What is Kobe talking about here? Al-Bazaar!

Believe it or not, that is not the weirdest basketball story this week. Major scandal at California State University, Cal State Bakersfield, a former men's basketball assistant coach by the name of Kevin Mays, who's a former player on the team, was allegedly moonlighting as a pimp operating across four states, California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. In August, head coach Rod Barnes received an anonymous tip email alleging Mays was trafficking women for prostitution, prompting an internal investigation that led to his arrest following a police sting operation. He now faces 11 criminal charges. He has been held without bail since his arrest. The case has triggered multiple dismissals and resignations within the athletic department, including Barnes, stepping down after a 14-year tenure. The investigation revealed Mays was initially hired as a player development coordinator in 2019 by Barnes, later promoted a temporary assistant coach in June at around $3,000 to month. a month raising questions about background checks and who knew what about his alleged side hustle. How bizarre.

Lest you think that performance-enhancing drugs or silicone injections are only plaguing professional sports or human beauty pageants, a camel beauty pageant, camel beauty pageant in Oman plunged into chaos. Twenty of its competitors, camels, like actual camels, were disqualified after their owners enhanced their humps. Using injectable fillers, silicone wax, and Botox. Veterinary inspectors at the 26 Camel Beauty Show Festival in Al-Musana Oman discovered that the camels had undergone several cosmetic procedures to enlarge the size of their humps. Using a mix of injectables similar to dermal fillers used on humans, according to both vice and Forbes, the disqualified camels had received a mix of injectables, including hyluronic acid injections, for pouty lips. The camels needed pouty lips. Dermal fillers around their nose, Botox to soften their faces, and silicone wax. to inflate their humps. Now, the camels in this pageant are judged on four key features, their coat, neck, head, and humps. The winning animals usually have the shiniest hair, a long and muscular neck, long eyelashes, and plump lips, and, of course, plump and defined humps. festival organizers say they are working to halt quote all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels adding that they would impose strict penalties on manipulators going forward

Here's a story about the absolute state of the education system in America. A high school graduate who got a 3.7 GPA, but could barely read, is now suing her former school district in Washington State. McKenna Simonson. graduated from Linwood High School in the Edmund School District with high honors, but her family claims she finished her senior year reading at just a first grade level and often didn't understand which she was reading. The lawsuit alleges educational malpractice and benevolent discrimination, saying the district gave her a meaningless diploma despite knowing her severe reading struggles. Instead, the family says they're facing steep cost $40,000 a year for vocational training elsewhere that they say they should have gotten at the Edmondsville School District. The district has not yet publicly responded to the suit. Ladies and gentlemen, this, your weekly look back at the strangest stories of the past seven days on a segment we call here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

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Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell Show. Believe it or not, in a little more than a week, in person, early voting opens up for the state Supreme Court election and a whole bunch of municipal and county election. Spring election day is Tuesday, April 7th. Now, what we always talk about here on the Dan O'Donnell Show is that a whole lot of conservatives don't know who it is that they should be voting for. They don't know who the conservative candidates are. Obviously, I think everybody knows to vote for. Maria Lazar for state Supreme Court judge. But beyond that, who are the conservatives on the ballot? It has been an issue that has been plaguing us forever. Joining me now is a man who saw that same problem and decided to do something about it. Waukesha County Republican Party chairman Terry Dietrich. He is the founder of the WIS RED initiative. Terry, happy Friday to you. Happy Friday, Dan. Great to be out with you. Well, this year, Terry, we are actually partnering with the WISRED initiative as we are putting together here at the Dan O'Donnell Show what we're calling the ultimate conservative voter guide where we're taking your recommendations for Waukesha County, combining them with pretty much every other county in the entire state. That is going to debut online one week from tomorrow as part of a broader web initiative that we are launching here on the Dan O'Donnells show. But Whistred actually goes well beyond, Terry, just a voter guide. You are actually vetting candidates. You are actually working with these local candidates to get them ready to run. Explain for our audience again how Wissred works. Exactly. Yeah, basically in August, actually, through the summer, we're out looking at all the individual races, whether they're incumbents, whether they're open seats, et cetera, countywide, which is typically between 140 and 160 races. This year we've even got the county board up, so it's another 25. And so we're looking for those counties or those candidates all that time, and we actually start selecting and vetting. individuals. They come to us through a whole series of channels, but we start actually vetting those candidates, a whole series of questions and backgrounds and those types of things that takes place from early September all the way through the end of December. Obviously, the filing deadline for the candidates is the first week in January. So it's hundreds and hundreds of hours, but we vet these candidates and we ultimately decide with a vetting board of seven individuals, very dedicated, all from Waukesha County. We spend time with each one of these candidates and we decide on whether we are going to support them. We don't say endorse because sometimes we have... two or three conservatives running for the same seat. And if we determine that they're good conservatives, we support them all and let the people, like it's supposed to be, let the people decide. But ultimately we decide who we're supporting. And from that point forward, it's all full-scale go in January after they've filed. We put together our voter guide, of course, that just came out about a week ago. We do that for the primary and then obviously for the general. And then we have a whole series of outreach programs to the voters in...

Waukesha County, typically conservative voters, but even some of those low propensity voters you were talking about that we've got to drive out. We're knocking, we're dropping, we're canvassing, we're texting, etc. We've got a whole array of outreach programs, including meeting the candidates themselves and basically go all the way full scale through April 7th or actually three days before. and try to push that voter turnout up. I think if you remember way back, Dan, it seems like a long time ago in 2000 when we first started this for the 21 spring race. This is now our sixth year of WIS Red. We've won, I believe it's about 160, 620 out of 720 or so races, about an 89% win rate. But every year, each one of these school boards and municipal boards has turnover of one to three candidates, and we've got to be prepared. This year, exciting for sure. Major, major races. This year, interestingly, for mayoral races in Brookfield, Steve Ponta, who are supporting. Scott Allen, we're supporting over in Wauk, City of Waukesha, for Riley's seats that's vacated. And then we've got Elmbrook School Board race, Waukishaw School Board races. It's a myriad of really, really close races. Matt Rozick running for Mayor out in O'Connemwalk. countywide we've got a lot of races we've got a lot of volunteers working we are full full scale right now but ultimately we want to drive that voter turnout up if we do that we feel we're in good shape to to take the majority well we've pretty much got all the majorities of all the school boards and municipal boards but a couple of really tight races especially elmbrook and those mayors races Yeah, it does seem like Elmbrook School Board is always a contentious battle, but obviously a great weapon for conservatives running for those seats is the Wiss Red initiative, is that Wiss Red support and is the voter guide. I have long believed that one of the biggest things that conservative organizations, the Republican Party, can do, is just put together a voter guide. And I have been a huge fan, as you know, Terry, of what it is that you guys have been doing since 2020 ahead of the 20. 2021 spring election. And we're trying our best. I said we are putting together the ultimate conservative voter guide. Obviously, Waukesha County has by far the most names on it, thanks to the hard work that you do. And it is my goal to try to get this WISRED initiative. duplicated in every other county in Wisconsin. I know that's been your goal as well. You've faced some opposition intra-party. Where do we stand right now? Are other counties picking this up? Is this something that you think can be replicated? Is the state party behind you? What are the, what's the status of the efforts to get this more of a statewide thing? Sure. I mean, I've been contacted by so many chairs around the state who said, boy, we need this in our county. There is a state party called the Farm Team. It's their, it's their version. I think it was a takeoff of ours, and I think it's been fairly successful in some locations, and I think, you know, ultimately it's got to be a statewide program. Whist Red has some unique features to it, that's for sure.

I'd say in most of these counties that are picking up the farm team or other local elections programs, they're in the pretty early stages of doing that. I think our real advantage is we've been able to scale. Right. So back before 2000, before Wiss Red, candidates would go out by themselves, really, effectively the state party and even county parties were not interested in these. nonpartisan races. But when these candidates would go out, they'd go out by themselves and they'd really be kind of one-man bands. And it just made it very, very confusing to the voter. It made it very difficult for those individual candidates to try and get the momentum in a very short sprint that we have. You know, this is only basically mid-January through April 7th. And we'd take a look at the post-primary. We're really only talking about a month. The idea that we were able to bundle all of these candidates, whether they were municipal or a school board, in a particular municipality or a particular area, and sell them as the team under WIS Red and brand the logo of WIS Red. So the average voter who's not really up to speed, not paying too much attention. We've had so many calls from people who just simply said, Dan, they said, Terry, finally, you told us who to vote for. We don't have the time and we don't know all of these candidates of nuances of the issues. So you make it simple for us. And by scaling and bundling as a package and letting them understand the team approach, that has been what has catapulted with Red. And I'd love to be able to see us do that. And, you know, most of the major red counties. If we do that, like Ron Johnson says, trickle up instead of spending all the money at the top and all the rest of that. If we do that, this state can be read every time. I'm convinced that that's been our Achilles heels, the fact that we don't register enough voters, number one. And we don't get voters out at the local level. At the local level, voters tend to pay attention, and then they become habitual voters. They don't take elections off. And, you know, I don't like to give kudos to the other side, but that's what they've been very effective at doing for many years is making sure that their voters vote every single election cycle, which we don't. And if you have a candidate who comes off the ballot, say President Trump, that there isn't a falloff from that because people still believe that it's necessary at their local level on up to be able to get out there and vote. And so looking at the entire whist-red array of... of touching those voters five, six, seven times in a 45 day period is so much more effective. in getting those voters to become habitual, which is what we need on the Republican side here in Wisconsin. Absolutely. Just look for the Whistred voter guide at the Wauwau County GOP page. Terry Dietrich is the chairman of the Wauwakashaw County Republican Party. Terry, as you know, I am a huge, huge, huge supporter of Wiss Red and your efforts to take this more to a statewide level because you're right. Senator Johnson is right. We need to have trickle up.

politics the democrats have figured this out they have been contesting every single election statewide they are not taking any one of their voters for granted they have basically maxed out their voter registration i am convinced of that that every liberal in this state is already registered to vote they are already voting democrat we've got hundreds of thousands of potential conservative voters who aren't. All right, Terry, I know it's a busy evening for you, so we're going to let you go. Really do appreciate you stopping by. Let's touch base again very soon, okay? absolutely thanks dan everybody come on get out and vote all conservatives in this county this is a red county let's go out and win absolutely it is you're listening to the dan o'donnell show when we come back words of advice from president trump to wrap up this edition this busy broadcast week here on the dan o'donnell show and much much more stay tuned we're coming right back

Folks did want to get to words of wisdom from President Trump in his interview with Jake Paul of all people today. Looks like we are not going to have enough time. I just want to say hope everybody stays warm, stays safe, the snow, the ice, the sleet, all of it, heading our way, hunker down, spend time with some loved ones this weekend and come back, rested, and hopefully ready to face another week. We are back here on the Dan O'Donnell Show 306 Monday. Have a great weekend. Stay safe, Wisconsin.