Tom Suozzi
speaker
270 appearances
18 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 May
Tom Suozzi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've been thinking about, you know, he lost so many people from his cabinet the first time. Who's going to be the person with an independent mindset that says, Mr. President, I really don't think this is a good way to go and you should consider doing it this way. So I think only like Rubio is a person who's like an independent person. He's got his own view of the world.
You know, he wants to be the president or he ran for president previously. But, you know, so far he's going along with President Trump. Everybody else is kind of like they're just part of the MAGA movement. And I don't know that they're going to have the... temerity to stand up and say, Hey, I don't think we're doing this the right way, Mr. President, but we'll see.
We have, you know, we have, we have, there's so much happening right now. It's just come, you know, I, I just last night realized it's only been a week and, and it's hard to imagine. Trump is really good at, you know, saying, Hey, look over here, look over here. And, you know, he's doing 50 things over there. So when he does that,
Greenland and the Panama Canal and the Gulf of America, you know, what happened to let's reduce prices, let's end the Ukrainian war in one day, let's get, you know, some of these other things done that he said would be so easy to do, you know, get the price of eggs down, get gasoline prices down.
So he's a master of distraction to get you all, and everybody takes the bait, gets all excited, you know, talking about these things, and he's really doing everything 10 other things off to the side. And something's very serious.
You can't, you know, you can't, you know, blow up at everything. So when he gave his inaugural address, He said a lot of things that I would disagree with and some things that I thought were totally inappropriate. But I'm choosing to say, OK, let's focus on the things we can agree upon. I agree that we need to secure the border. I agree that we should deport criminals.
I support you when you say that we should rapidly reduce prices. He said something about, you know, chronic disease and helping young. Yeah, let's do that stuff. So let's, you know, we've got to pick and choose. you know, what we can work on. And then some things, well, of all the 50 things that gets you maybe a little exercised, you have to pick the one or two things that you want to focus on.
So for example, you know, the, the, the pardons. Okay. That's a pretty big deal because he did a blanket pardon for 1600 people. And I focus on one case that really just, when I read about it, just really blows me away. There's a guy named Daniel Rodriguez. On January 6th, they were beating up a Capitol Police officer. He was on the ground. People were yelling and kicking and punching.
And people were saying, kill him, kill him. And Daniel Rodriguez takes a taser and sticks it in the police officer's neck. And the police officer has a heart attack and has traumatic brain injury as a result of this assault. The guy, Daniel Rodriguez, sent a text out to his buddies that were uncovered as part of his prosecution. And he said, you wouldn't believe this, S.H., I just did.
And I got away and I just tased the you know what out of the blue. Now, this guy pleads guilty, gets a 12 year sentence. And he's one of the people who was pardoned. I mean, how can you say, like, I'm pro-law enforcement, I'm pro-cops? You know, in New York, where I'm from, you know, there's a big thing about people assaulting police officers and then getting out, which is upsetting.
I'm upset by that. How can you pardon a guy like that? And he's not just one example. There's lots of examples, but that's the one that just really stood out to me. Hundreds of people that, you know, did violent assaults against law enforcement. So...
So right now I'm not focused on making it stick. Okay. Right now I'm focused on Where can we find common ground? Where can we get stuff done? Where can we solve problems and make our country a better place?
And, you know, as we get closer to the 2026 elections and then ultimately the 2028 elections, well, then let's, you know, let's use our platforms to point out, you know, these egregious examples. And, you know, we have to do something about the border. And the Democrats, you know, are behind the eight ball in this. We've lost the plot.
And we have got to, we can't say we're against deporting criminals, okay? We have to deport criminals. And I can guarantee you that they're going to make mistakes as they go. I've been in government a long time. I was the mayor of my hometown for eight years. I was the county executive of a big county for eight years. I was in Congress for six years.
I left to run for governor, got my ass kicked in a Democratic primary. George Santos won my seat, so then they got rid of him. Everybody said, please come back. So I've been in government a long time. So government doesn't always do things right. They make mistakes, and they're going to make a lot of mistakes when it comes to these deportations.
You know, say we're going after criminals, and we agree, let's go after criminals. Well, what happens when you target a criminal, you go to break down the door to go get them, And he moved and that was an innocent family living there. And these kids are terrorized. What's going to happen when you start taking mommy and daddy away from their kids or, you know, so let's work together.
to try and address the issues and then save our fire for the more egregious things that we can agree on as people that want to save our country that we need to highlight because it's just way beyond the pale.
You know, I thought because it was the first thing out of the box and it was mainly targeted towards criminals that we had no choice but to support it. And we had supported it. I think 30 or 40 of us had supported Democrats and supported it last year as well.
And, you know, if I was in law school and I was debating this bill when I was in law school, I would have been like, I have a problem with this and I have a problem with that. And I don't like this thing. And, you know, I would tell you what everything is wrong with it. But I think that, you know, we have to accept the fact that Americans want us to do something about this.
And we have to move forward. And if there are imperfections as we see that will arise, we need to try and correct that as we go along. I mean, you know, one thing I always like to point out is, like, when you pass a bill, that's not the end of the story. I mean, there's things that happen. The government doesn't stop functioning.
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