Join Mike Gallagher as he tackles the unsettling narratives that unfolded over the weekend, from the lighthearted yet contentious story of a baseball game confrontation to the chilling murder of Irina Zarutska on a Charlotte train. With sharp analysis and passionate discourse, Mike sheds light on the media’s handling of these incidents, the societal underpinnings that may contribute to such violence, and the long-standing impact of political inaction on crime and safety. An episode filled with critical insights and stirring commentary.
He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network. Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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It’s so weird when there are two stories over the weekend that get all kinds of attention. And, of course, it’s the weekend, so I can’t work. I’ve got to figure out a way. Should I start working on the weekends? Should we start doing some kind of a… online show or a podcast or some digital show. Because, you know, it’s not really… The way everything is structured, you can’t just show up on the weekends. But between the Karen Ballsnatcher story out of Philadelphia, you probably saw that story, Philadelphia Phillies baseball game, a woman got indignant because a dad… retrieved a home run ball for his son. She marches over and orders him to return the ball. If you’re watching right now on Salem News Channel, you see the video. He drops the ball into the boy’s glove. He gives him a hug. She comes up. He’s like, what are you? What are you doing? She’s like, I want that ball. I want that ball. So he finally, just to get her out of his face and out of the little boy’s face, Returns the ball to her, gives the ball to her. It didn’t return and she didn’t have it in the first place. And this turned into a whole weekend long argument about her and should she be doxed and should she be fired and him and why didn’t he tell her to go pound salt and what a terrible lesson for his son and on and on and on. The whole thing was all weekend long. So that’s story number one that I would have loved to have tackled as it was unfolding in real time. Story number two is a horrific story of the stabbing death of a 23-year-old woman named Irina Zarutska. Irina Zarutska made the mistake, the fatal error of sitting in front of 35-year-old DeCarlos Brown on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. This happened August 22nd. Here’s the way it was covered by WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now remember, again, this is in Charlotte. This is not in Chicago. This didn’t happen in New York City. This happened in a part of the country that I know quite well. I spend a lot of time in the Carolinas. I’ll be there again later this week. for a nice event we’re going to have Saturday evening over at Hudson Farm, Joey and Peg’s place in the upstate of South Carolina. The 4th Congressional Republican Club put together a little gathering. I can’t wait. It’s going to be kind of a good old-fashioned, it’s called Freedom Farm Fest, and tickets are available at 989WORD.com. or just text the keyword farm to the MyPillow text line at 800-655-MIKE, and we’ll send it back to you. I hope to meet you in person this Saturday evening at Joey’s place. Hey, it’s worth the price of admission just to see the farm, a place where I have spent many, many, many happy, happy moments. I’ve got lots of great memories. at Hudson Farm in beautiful Greer, South Carolina. So if you want to come out and join us Saturday night, break bread with us and talk about the world and talk about politics and the Trump era and so much more, come out and join us. Again, 989WORD.com for tickets. So I know the Carolinas well. It’s where I met and married my Denise. It’s where we raised our kids. Speaking of the kids… I’ve decided to take the plunge. We’re going to do a good old-fashioned hap-hap-happy Christmas. We’re all going to do it together. I think, well, almost all of us. It’s a whole thing. There’s drama in our family, just like any other family. So I’m going to have to play peacekeeper. But you know what I want for Christmas this year? I woke up in the middle of the night a couple weeks ago. I want snow! I want horse-drawn carriage rides. I want ice skating, skiing, hot chocolate. We’re going to have the happiest, merriest Christmas in the history of Christmases. It’s going to be perfect. Or else. Heads will roll if it isn’t perfect. So I’ll keep you posted. I don’t even know where to begin. The last time we tried this, the pandemic broke out. We were going to go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and I had an Airbnb ready at Jackson Hole. And then the pandemic hit, and it all went to you know what. So I don’t know where, I don’t know what, but we’ll figure it out. Some people are telling me Washington State. People say there’s some town in Washington, the greatest Christmas city in the world. I don’t know. If you’ve got any ideas, email me your suggestions, mike at mikeonline.com. That’s our email address, and I’ll keep an eye out for it, mike at mikeonline.com. All right, back to this horrific story. Here’s a career criminal, violent offenses, breaking and entering, grand larceny, diagnosed schizophrenic. Here’s cut number five. This is the package from WBTV in Charlotte. If you’re watching, even if you’re listening, warning, this is difficult, difficult to see and hear.
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It’s 9.46 p.m. You’ll notice right away, this looks like any other ride aboard the light rail. People are doing what they do these days, keeping to themselves, scrolling on their phones as they ride along. The man accused in the killing, DeCarlos Brown, is in the red hoodies on the right side of your screen. He appears to be maybe a little emotional, perhaps a little agitated, but nothing disruptive. There’s nothing that gets anyone’s attention. About 30 seconds later, Irina Zaretska boards. She’s wearing a hat and a T-shirt from a pizzeria, and she sits in the row in front of Brown. She has earbuds in and is looking at her phone. She, too, is just minding her own business. They ride along for around four minutes with nothing unusual happening. Then around 9.50 p.m., Brown reaches into a pocket. We’ve zoomed in on it here. He pulls out a pocket knife. No one notices a thing. Seconds later, he would stand up, and from behind, unprovoked, as we stopped the video, he would stab the young woman several times. She had no chance to defend herself. The attack was over in seconds, and when it was over, Brown walked through the train attempting to get off. Few passengers, if any, at first realized what had happened until they noticed drops of blood on the floor. 90 seconds after the attack, a bystander rushes down to begin lending aid to Zaretska. She would die from her injuries. 30 seconds later, 9.52 p.m., six minutes into the video, Brown leaves the light rail.
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Now, according to the New York Post, liberal media and politicians, Democrat politicians, are being accused of staying silent about the savage murder of this young Ukrainian refugee. And it seems to be true. The Charlotte mayor, a Democrat named, I guess it’s Vi Lyles, Vi Lyles actually thanked media outlets that didn’t publicize the video. She wrote in a post on X, I want to thank our media partners and community members who’ve chosen not to repost or share the footage out of respect for Arena’s family. Representative Brad Knott, a Republican from North Carolina, wrote in response, the mayor’s refusal to condemn senseless, horrific, and preventable violence is as telling as it is despicable. Violent criminals, regardless of who they are or what they look like, need to be in jail. She also went on and on about how we have to have compassion for the homeless. Because this guy was allegedly homeless. So the mayor was reportedly calling for compassion for the monster of For the demon who pulled out a pocket knife and slaughtered this poor young woman on a train. Compassion. Do you know there was a GoFundMe campaign for the guy? Now, in the era of Luigi Mangione, I guess that wouldn’t shock you. It was finally pulled down. But nonetheless, somebody thought that would be a good idea. So look, let’s dive in together. 800-655-MIKE. I want to start with you. These are two big, big stories. And, you know, we’ll cover it all for you here. I want to put your voice front and center here on a Monday episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. Why do you suppose the media, the mainstream media, has looked the other way? Is it simply because the suspect is black and the victim is wife? Do you suppose it has to do with the crime narrative? That’s the way Axios characterizes it. Axios this morning, in kind of a shocking article, didn’t really acknowledge the way the mainstream media is ignoring the story. But they said, well, this ignites, this fuels MAGA’s crime message. Does this have anything to do with MAGA? This has to do with… Good versus evil and evil winning. 800-655-MIKE. Call or text. I hope you join us. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life, and I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off, like me. I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It’s called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas’ program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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The rise of communism, which is quite literally what it is with Bundami, is really scary. What that will do to New York City, when all the people who have the ability to flee will continue to come down here, move out of New York, it’s just going to create a dystopian nightmare in the city. And I really hope that doesn’t happen because I have a very dear place in my heart still for that once great city.
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In the Relief Factor studios on Salem News Channel and Salem Radio Network, here’s Mike.
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I saw an article over the weekend from Charlie Gasparino, who is, of course, a New Yorker and appreciates what New York has to offer. And he basically is throwing in the towel on Mamdani in New York saying, look, let it happen. Burn it all to the ground. Let’s just start over. let the world discover that socialism and communism isn’t going to work, that he needs to win. At this point, it doesn’t look like Curtis Lewa is going anywhere. The founder of the Guardian Angels, and he would be a real Batman for New York City. Curtis would be incredible. He’s the only Republican, of course. It appears President Trump likes Cuomo as far as the best chance to defeat Zoran Mamdani. When I was there last week, I saw a lot of young people with Zoran t-shirts on. He’s got a lot of them really excited. Hey, free stuff. Going to freeze the rent. Going to ride the bus for free. Subway fares? Come on. That’s child’s play. That’s bad stuff. You think there’s a crime problem now in a city like New York? You’ve got to defund the mayor, defund the police mayor, who will completely obliterate New York City. There will be a mass exodus. I talked to a number of NYPD officers when I was there. They’re all out. They said, look, he gets in, we’re out. One guy was going to retire at 47 years of age. I said, can you do that? He goes, well, I’ll have to make it work, but we’ll make it work. He goes, you think I can be a police officer in a city with Mayor Zoran? This is almost like a bad cartoon. I feel like I’m in this really weird, dystopian, kind of surreal, and none of it makes sense. And nothing is true. I mean, nothing is factual. Did Trump get booed or cheered at the U.S. Open over the weekend? Now, you’ve got a bunch of elitists. I think of people like Larry David who love the U.S. Open. You’ve got a bunch of Trump haters who were there. I looked over at TMZ. Trump cheered at the U.S. Open. I look over at the New York Post. Trump booed at the U.S. Open. They can’t even… It’s pretty obvious he was cheered and booed. Okay. So what? Do you know there was a group outside the Arthur Ashe tennis facility at the U.S. Open with people encouraging people to boo Trump? Grown adults with signs, with sandwich boards saying boo Trump when he appears. That’s pretty organic. Yeah, that’s very authentic. That’s an authentic protest. And at the end of the day, who really, you think he cares? Look, he does not care. One of the worst of the White House press corps is Yamiche Alexander. I always get her last name wrong. Is it Alcindor or Alexander? I always get her name mixed up. But I know it’s Yamiche. And Yamiche Alexander. hates on Trump and conservatives every chance she gets. So she mixed it up a little bit with President Trump, and he finally told her, just be quiet.
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Now, you know, for what it’s worth, when he told her to be quiet, she was quiet. She did hush up.
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Which had to be, I mean, I’m sure she was seething. But when you’ve got the leader of the free world telling you to pipe down, be quiet, you’re never quiet. And that’s why you’ll always, he’s second rate. He just doesn’t care anymore. I mean, look, I don’t know if he ever did. He isn’t really worried about whose feelings he hurts. And there’s a lot of strong women on TV on the right and the left. Look, you’re not going to diminish the presence of Jessica Tarloff over on Fox News Channel’s The Five. But listen to the way former White House press secretary and current Fox News star Kayleigh McEnany got into it with progressive Fox News star Jessica Tarloff on The Five.
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This is an entire cohesive foreign policy that has been offence. Bombing Fordow, taking out the drug cartel ship, go back to the first term, taking out Soleimani, taking out al-Baghdadi, striking in Syria. When Biden said don’t, President Trump said do. And what you are looking at is a reflection of that. They are taking down defense. They are going to make this the Department of War. This is a president of office. He doesn’t say don’t because when you say don’t, the enemies act. When you say don’t, Putin goes into Ukraine. When you say don’t, Hamas attacks on October 7th. When you say do, when you actually do an action, you achieve the respect of the world. And that’s what’s happened with President Trump.
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Congratulations, by the way, during the Alaska summit. where he thought he made a lot of progress. I’m sure you did. And then Putin showed up, and he’s standing with President Xi, and Donald Trump says now they’re conspiring against me. How many wars did Biden win? Also, when I was on maternity leave, we got to the fact that there are seven wars that President Trump made.
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You’re very fresh, even though you’ve been on leave. I am not fresh. You are. Let me tell you how fresh I am not. I brought it to you. You said you didn’t know the legal justification for the striking of the ship. I brought it for you. OLC opinion from 1980, Article 2, Section 2, Commander-in-Chief Power. So we’ve got that, too. I’m fresh, and I brought my facts.
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Oh! Oh! I’m fresh, and I got my facts. And then it was Jessica’s turn to be quiet, which is kind of nice. Don Lemon, of course, was fired from CNN. He wound up… He was some kind of podcast. A lot of people, incidentally, like the idea of a weekend show. I don’t know that I want to work on the weekends. I don’t know. But it might be kind of fun. When big stories break like broke over the weekend, the thing at the Philly, we haven’t even touched the Philly Karen Ball Snatcher story yet. But here’s a text from Indiana. Do a weekend show on your X account. You’ll get to 100,000 followers. Man, I would love to be at 100,000 followers. I’ve got a long way to go. I’ve been stuck at like 77,000 forever. Here’s Columbus, Ohio. I think a weekend podcast would be a great idea. Hmm. A lot of stuff happens on the weekend. I mean, I was glued to the TV and the iPhone all weekend long. I mean, there was so much breaking. So anyway, Don Lemon, the disgraced ex-CNN anchor, he’s out doing man-on-the-street interviews now for some podcast that he’s doing. He did one that didn’t turn out so well.
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How you doing, sir? Can we talk to you? Where are you from? You live in New York? Who are you? Don Lemon. You’re a moron, dude. Thank you. So are you. Yeah, that’s very nice of you to say.
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Except you’ve never heard anything I’ve had to say, and I’ve heard a whole bunch of what you’ve had to say. I’m glad you watch me.
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No, I don’t. Why? You just get clipped everywhere. I know, but why don’t you? You said you don’t watch me, but you know who I am, and I get clipped.
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Before I realized that CNN and MSNBC were full of shit, every once in a while I’d see you talking. What are you watching?
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I watch all sorts of stuff. Yeah, but why do you say CNN and MSNBC are full of shit? Because they lie. About what? Be specific. What’s everything?
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Everything. I think we’ve got to go back to the beep, Christian. When you just take out the curse words, it doesn’t have the same effect. Let’s go back to beeping the F word and the S word. But he basically… told Don Lemonoff, said, you’re an effing moron. And MSNBC and CNN are full of S. Now, I know the language is rough there, but there was Don Lemonoff. And the guy just calling him. People just had it. Just fed up. All the virtue signaling going on. Kamala Harris lost her Secret Service protection because, by statute, she was supposed to lose her vice presidential Secret Service protection status. Biden secretly, probably using the auto pen, extended her Secret Service protection. And the Trump administration said, no, we’re not going to make an exception. We’re not making an exception for Trump. Kamala Harris. And so they’re so pathetic in California, they were actually taking an elite squad of Los Angeles Police Department members and giving her personal protection until the outrage happened. As ABC7 in L.A. reported, no more security detail for Kamala Harris from the LAPD.
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Just in, Los Angeles police are no longer providing protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Just days ago, President Trump ordered her Secret Service protection be pulled. California Highway Patrol stepped in along with specialized units from the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division. In a statement, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said the LAPD’s role was always meant to be temporary.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, really? That was pretty temporary. It was about three days. Nice try, Mayor Karen. 16 before the hour, President Trump is giving remarks right now as we speak at the Museum of the Bible talking about religious liberty. We’ll take you to D.C. and peek in and listen to some of President Trump’s comments and watch it coming up next here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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I was trying to figure out why I’m in kind of a cranky mood today. I’m in a bad mood because I spent the weekend when I wasn’t trying to decompress and watch football. Man, oh man, the final three minutes of that Tampa Bay Atlanta Falcons game, I haven’t seen anything like that. I can’t believe it. The Tampa Bay kicker missed the extra point, which gave Atlanta the chance to tie it and take it into overtime, and then the Atlanta kicker missed kind of a chip shot field goal. I always feel so sorry for kickers. The whole game rests on their shoulders. And when they miss an extra point or they miss an easy field goal, it’s like, well, what were you doing? What were you thinking? What happened to you? So anyway, good start for the season for Tampa Bay. Clemson survived a scare. Holy moly. I was out of town. I was at an event, and I’m watching on my phone, and I check out the score, and Clemson was at 16-3 at halftime, losing to, who was it, Troy State? I thought, if Clemson loses this game, all you know what will break loose. Anyway, there’s lots of sports, NFL’s underway. There’s nothing more enjoyable. And I just love planting myself on the couch on a Sunday afternoon and watching football and hope you had a chance to do that as well. But I was also, you know, plugged in to some stuff that was breaking online, most notably the death of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee. A young woman named Irina Zerutskaya. She on August the 22nd got on a train and was just randomly slaughtered. by a 35-year-old career criminal named DeCarlos Brown Jr. He was shown on the video surveillance pulling out a pocket knife, getting out of his seat, towering over her. She’s totally oblivious. She’s minding her own business on the train, on the light rail train in Charlotte, on her cell phone. She’s got her AirPods in her ears, got a baseball cap on and a T-shirt on from a pizzeria, totally unaware. of the monster, the demon, the devil behind her. I mean, he took his time. He unfolded the pocket knife. The surveillance video is brutal to watch. And it turns out this guy had been arrested 14 times. They kept letting him out, letting him out, letting him out. Violent crimes, too. This is not an occasional misdemeanor. We’re talking violent crimes. larceny, breaking and entering, all kinds of horrible stuff. The guy is a monster who does not deserve to be in any public spaces. But he was because this is what the courts do over and over again. And I’m just tired of it. I saw Congressman Randy Fine from Florida posted that he’s going to introduce legislation in the House of Representatives to hold judges accountable when violent repeat offenders they release commit new crimes. Congressman Fine said it’s easy to release criminals when you’re protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. Those 12-plus judges who released DeCarlos Brown Jr. should have their day in court, too. There’s no accountability for these judges. And there’s also no accountability for these Democrat politicians who are running America’s cities into the ground. The mayor of Charlotte is a Democrat named Vi Lyles. Charles C.W. Cook wrote a great piece over at National Review saying, I am in utter shock at the reaction I’ve seen from the Charlotte mayor to the gruesome murder that took place in the city for which she is responsible. I simply do not understand it, he writes. Lyles sounds quite literally as if she is a hostage who, whether as the result of political pressure or corrupt ideology, has been forced to utter sentences that focus on the wrong things that make no sense on their own terms and that, if taken seriously, will lead inexorably to the same thing happening again. The mayor was keen to propose that, quote, we will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health. What in the heck is she talking about? That’s nonsense. The guy who committed this crime had been arrested over and over and over again, including assault, breaking and entering, robbery with a dangerous weapon. communicating threats, he had resisted arrest. He had failed to appear in court. He had been caught multiple times in possession of a firearm, which his status as a felon prohibited. If instead of being put out on the streets, he’d been in prison, this young woman would be alive today. I mean, it’s insane. The mayor said that the murder should force us to look at what we are doing across our community to address root causes. Charles C.W. Cook responds, what rot. What utter rot. There was no magical root cause that yielded this attack. There was no clever government program that could have prevented it. Crazy or not, the guy was a career criminal who should have been locked up for one of the many, many crimes he committed. If Mayor Vi Lyles and her government are forced to look at anything, it’s why they did not do their jobs and why even now, having failed so spectacularly, they’re more concerned with the feelings of the perpetrator and his friends than with the victim. The crisis was felt by the woman who was killed, by her friends, by her family, and everyone else who now feels that the city of Charlotte, run by a Democrat, has no interest in their well-being. Charles C.W. Cook says, I do not think that figures such as Vi Lyles understand the degree to which they are playing with fire. I want the Constitution followed to the letter. But that’s not the same thing as wanting criminals to be ignored, released without charge, or given light sentences. Cashless bail, one of the Democrats’ favorite little schemes. He says the ideal setup is one in which the people who plague our society are punished sternly for their deeds after a fair hearing in which they are presumed to be innocent. I think that on balance, most Americans agree with that. I also think that if the first part of that equation isn’t met, Americans will come to care a lot less about the second. Vi Lyles. A mayor who seems far more interested in the feelings of criminals than of the people they torment. The correct response to this story out of Charlotte is horror, condemnation, and a vow to do better in the future. It is not a bunch of mawkish, hippie crap. That silent majority we hear so much about still exists. And if you wanted to start talking and loud, this is exactly how you bring that about. You know, the other aspect of this that is so important is the way the mainstream media has shamelessly ignored this story. This is every bit as important a story as the death of George Floyd. This is every bit as infuriating. as Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd. And yet entire cities experience rioting and looting and violence and bloodshed. But not a peep out of this one. Because a young white woman, well, she just doesn’t, she doesn’t count. She’s not really that important. A troubled criminal like George Floyd, evidently he matters. Irina Zorotskaya does not. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. That’s why I’m in a bad mood today. I’m disgusted. I am frankly, and look, this is all on the backdrop of America’s biggest city about to elect a mayor who is vi-liles on steroids. You think Zoran Mamdami is going to worry about criminals? Do you think he’s going to crack down on these violent demons? Of course not. Democrats always seem to rush into the loving arms of criminality. Look at what they’re doing over Trump’s efforts to make cities safer. They don’t want the National Guard in their city. What do you think the presence of the National Guard on that Charlotte train might have done for Arena Zarutska? They don’t want that. They don’t want any of that. They want the crime. They want the death. They want the despair. Democrats are letting lawlessness run rampant in our streets. And everybody knows it. That’s the part that astounds me. It’s like everybody’s in on it. We all know they’re doing it. They’re not hiding it. They’re very open about it. 800-655-MIKE. Join us. Fooling around with somebody new.
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Senator, you’ve sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years while the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. You never asked the question why it’s happening. Why is this happening?
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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I want to see if we can get Congressman Randy Fine on the show maybe in the next couple of days to talk about the legislation that he’s planning to introduce. You know, this mayor of Charlotte, this Democrat mayor, is saying, oh, we’ve got to – the same talking points these Democrats always use. We’ve got to go to the root cause. Now, she wants to talk about the root cause of mental illness and the root cause of homelessness and I got a root cause for you. Judges that let habitual criminals out on the streets. This is why I’m so frustrated today. We always talk about it, and nothing ever gets done. This monster had 14 crimes. Look, they have a page of all of his mugshots. He’s got short hair, he’s got long hair, he’s got cornrows, he’s got short… All the different stages of his life, all the times that he’s been arrested. Look, if this was a white man plunging a knife into the throat of a young black woman, how long would it be before that same mayor of Charlotte would demand hate crime prosecution? I am just tired of this. How about you? 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Here’s a, gosh, it never seems to end either, does it? What does it take? What does it take? Sam’s in Georgia. Sam, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show. How are you?
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I’m well, Mr. Gallagher. You kind of just made my point for me.
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Well, good. Great minds think alike.
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Yes, and I do agree with the mayor of Charlotte that we need to get to the root cause. But that root cause is soft on crime. There’s no fear in the criminal’s mind anymore.
SPEAKER 09 :
No. They figure they’ll get out again? I mean, how many times have we seen people be interviewed where they said on camera, oh, I know I’ll get out again. I’m going to commit a crime. I watched something happen the other day. I was in New York City for a few days for a conference. We had a great event over at the Barrett Media Summit over there at the Alvin Ailey Theater on West 55th Street. And it was so fun to hang out with some of my colleagues. Eric Erickson, never met him before. Nice guy out of Atlanta. Sid Rosenthal. So many nice people. great people. Who am I missing? Mark Simone from New York. Doggone it, did I do it again? He gave me a hard time about it. It’s Sid Rosenberg. Why do I get Sid Rosenberg and Rosenthal mixed up? There must be a Rosenthal in my life. And Sid came up to me and he said, Hi, I’m Sid Rosenthal. Nice to meet you. Sorry, Sid Rosenberg. Big legendary guy, and he’s got no shortage of confidence. He’s a big bombastic guy and real funny and fun and smart and doing a great job on the airwaves there. So I’ll just call him Sid from now on. Anyway, I was in New York, took the subway, had a nightmare where the ATM in the subway ate my card, my debit card. That was a nightmare. But I watched again, just incredulous to watch people jump over the turnstiles. They steal a free ride. And I just wonder, I saw a cop and I said, I went up to him and I said, look, I don’t mean to bother you, but I keep seeing people jumping over the turnstiles. What do you guys do with that? And he admitted, he goes, we’re kind of hamstrung on it. We, you know, we might give them a summons. We might kick them out. But it’s not like a real crime in New York City. Well, yes, it is. Because if you’re capable of doing that, what else are you going to do to break the law? Oh, yeah, there’s a lot of web roots. There’s a lot of real root causes behind this. How about President Trump at the Museum of the Bible earlier today calling out the evil that is the actual root of so much of what is plaguing us? Here was the president earlier today talking about religious liberty at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
SPEAKER 04 :
A lunatic just got up and started, it’s right on the tape, not really watchable because it’s so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. She’s just sitting there. So they’re evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, it’s just, we’re not going to have a country anymore. We’re losing our country. And all of this is happening on the eve of what could very well be A mayor in New York that doesn’t support police. A mayor who is a flat-out communist. A mayor, Zoran Mamdani, if he wins, who is a member of the Socialist. The New York Times desperately trying to cover up who and what he is. Well, the only thing he’s socialistic about is trying to make things equitable for people. That’s really all he’s… That was an actual… Take in the New York Times. He’s a member of the socialists of the USA and the socialists of the… He is a complete, total socialist who wants to put homeless people, who wants to house homeless people in the subway stations. who believes in redistribution of wealth, who doesn’t believe in private property. That’s Zoran Mamdani. But because he makes cute TikTok videos and he’s a good-looking young guy that smiles a lot, oh boy, oh boy, we like Zoran. He’s going to give us free bus rides. He don’t want to charge to ride the bus. Well, no, of course he’s not going to charge the freeloaders who want to ride the bus, but he’s going to charge the taxpayers to pay for the bus rides for the freeloaders. Freeze the rents. Oh, that’s a great idea. So, look, I got to read for you this Charlie Gasparino article. I’ll find it for you from over the weekend. Where Charles Gasparino, the Fox News guy, he’s on Fox Business Network, I think, and also writes for the New York Post. He said, you know what, let it happen. Elect Zoran. And then it’ll all get burned to the ground and we can start over again. Maybe, just maybe, there’s some truth there. There’s some merit to that argument. There’s a lot of merit to the argument that you need protection, big time. You need protection with your computer, with your smartphones, with your devices. Did you see the news that TransUnion confirmed a massive data breach? Over 4 million people were impacted. 4 million people. That’s why you’ve got to get WebRoot Total Protection like I have. It covers identity protection for up to 10 identities, up to $1 million in fraud expense reimbursement, and 24-7 U.S.-based customer support, including a dedicated elder fraud hotline, which is so important. It even monitors your identity in the dark web for signs of trouble. You’re also going to get antivirus, a secure VPN, cloud backup, so that your devices, your privacy, and your personal info are all protected from every angle. Here’s the thing. If your identity is stolen, it can take between 100 and 200 hours to fix everything on your own. Don’t do this alone. Get WebRoot Total Protection. You’re going to get insurance for your digital life. You’re going to get peace of mind, too. You’re going to get 50% off today when you visit WebRoot.com slash MikeG. Visit WebRoot.com slash MikeG. WebRoot.com slash MikeG. Sharon is in Phoenix. Hey, Sharon, welcome. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello. Hello.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hi there. Hi. I just wanted to say I’m really sorry for this young woman that had to go through this horrific thing. God rest her soul. And in the video, you said you’ve seen the video. What about the two people, their arms length away from her on that train? I know.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you remember what happened to Daniel Penny on the New York subway when he intervened? They threw the book at him. They wanted him to rot in jail for the rest of his life. Because he subdued a guy who was threatening people all around him. And the guy died. And they wanted to nail Daniel Penny with murder charges. I’m telling you, in the Democrats’ mind, evil is good and good is evil.
Media Ignores Horrific Murder In North Carolina
Join Mike Gallagher as he tackles the unsettling narratives that unfolded over the weekend, from the lighthearted yet contentious story of a baseball game confrontation to the chilling murder of Irina Zarutska on a Charlotte train. With sharp analysis and passionate discourse, Mike sheds light on the media’s handling of these incidents, the societal underpinnings that may contribute to such violence, and the long-standing impact of political inaction on crime and safety. An episode filled with critical insights and stirring commentary.
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