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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner on Protecting his City from Trump

27 Aug 2025

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Chapter 1: What challenges does Philadelphia face under the Trump administration?

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Siitä tietää, että on ollut hyvä loma, kun tekee mieli mennä piiloon, aurinkotuolin alle, ettei tarvitsisi vielä lähteä. Tjärebori. Lomia, joiden et soisi loppuvan. Nyt kun se pahin on takana, niin mä odotan tulevaisuudelta sitä, että mulla ei oo semmosia elämää uhkaavia huolia ja murheita.

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50.993 - 77.707 Larry Krasner

Yhdessä syöpää vastaan, koska meillä on elämä tehtävänä. Dokrates Mehiläinen syöpäsairaala. Kysymys nyt on, missä maassa Donald Trump laittaa sääntöä vastaan. Onko se Chicago? Onko se Philadelphia, jossa vuoden aiemmin Donald Trump jäi puuttelemaan, kun laittoi rauhoja? Muistatko? Laita tämän klipin. Noin.

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A lot of emotion. There's a lot of emotion in this room. Thank you. Thank you. So the really nice thing is we have lines and I want to thank Chase and I want to thank Alan.

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selling golden sneakers in Philadelphia a year ago and now threatening to send the military to invade Philadelphia. Earlier on Monday, Donald Trump was asked if he's planning on sending the military to invade cities without the approval of the governors of the states where those cities are. Here's what he said. Let's play it. Are you prepared to order National Guard troops, though, into American cities if those governors don't request the federal deployment? I am, but I also think that, look, Chicago...

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Everybody knows how bad it is. Everybody standing there knows. We know you don't have to be doing any studies. They should be saying, please, please, please invade me. You should be saying, that's just what, that's how an abuser sounds right there. Then you have MAGA-Republican congressmember James Comer, who is a wing of this authoritarian movement. And he said, yep, we're coming to Philly next. We're coming to New York City. We're coming to Chicago. How

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Mitä ajattelette sydäntäisistä ja sydäntäisistä maista, joissa väitöskriittinen on suurimman suurempi, mutta kerro Jamesa Comerista. Olemme tuottamassa tätä. Olemme tuottamassa tätä toisissa maissa, jos se toimii Washingtonissa. Ja taas, se on epäonnistunut, mutta olemme kasvaneet paljon sotilastamme.

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Meidän sotilaamme on ollut monissa maissa ympäri maailmaa viime viikkoja, kävelemällä kaupungilla, yritämällä vähentämään ongelmia ja muissa maissa. Meidän täytyy keskittyä isoihin kaupungeissa nyt Amerikassa, ja se on se, mitä presidentti tekee. Se toimii Washingtonissa. Miksei sinä valita, että presidentti Trumpi voi tulla Chikagoon, New Yorkissa tai Philadelphiaan ja yrittää vahvistaa...

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The criminal activity in their city. So I think that this is an experiment that's probably needed in a lot of the Democrat run cities in America. An experiment, just an experiment. It's called fascism, saying our military was sent to other countries like Fallujah. Well, we're in Fallujah. Now let's send them right here into the United States. Then Pete Hegseth spoke earlier today where Pete Hegseth said the morale of the troops is great. They love invading American cities.

Chapter 2: How does DA Larry Krasner respond to military intervention in cities?

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Minun vastaukseni on, että fasistit ovat fasistit. Puhutaanpa, mitä täällä oikeastaan tapahtuu. Meillä on joku, joka on syöttänyt 34 syöttöä, joka uskoo olla lausuntojen ääntä. Joku auttaisi minut siitä.

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We have a guy who we all know was very close to Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a historically notorious pedophilic ring and doesn't want to release information about that. And he's here to make us safe. Really? Is that how that works? Did he make us safe when you had an effort to overthrow the government of the United States, apparently on his behalf, and he exonerated all those people? He pardoned all those people, some of whom were doing sentences of 20 years or more?

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What do traders get? And yet he let them all go. Let's put a little finer point on it. Here's the truth. The Republican states, meaning the ones that voted for the last Republican candidate for president in the last election cycle, have been more homicide prone for 25 years than the Democratic states. In fact, 24.

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Out of those 25 years you stood a better chance of getting killed in a Republican state than a Democratic state. 24 out of 25 of those years. The difference has been about 133%, meaning if 100 people get murdered in a Democratic state, there's 133 adjusted for population getting murdered in a Republican state. Republicans are terrible at public safety. When they're not committing crimes themselves, which this president does all the time by all indications, when they're not doing that,

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They are endangering their people. And yet for some silly reason, that is not a message that my Democratic Party has been able to get across. Well, here it is. We do not need an invasion led by an insurrectionist, who is a 34-time convicted felon, who's violating the Constitution.

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We do not need an invasion of a city, and Philadelphia is that city, that is enjoying a more than 50 year low in homicides. That had a record year last year and is doing better and better and better. And that is basically going on with all of these democratic, largely majority minority cities that are led by mayors of color. That is what's going on with all of these cities. It is totally unacceptable, and I certainly will do everything in my power

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tell them if they're going to f around they're going to find out so tell us what the find out stage would look like i mean what you are able to share let's just say he targets chicago next which is what the plan seemed to suggest but then comes to philadelphia after that or who knows maybe he comes to philadelphia next this time not selling golden sneakers for 499 but putting the military on the streets

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What do you do about that? How do you fight that both with legal authority, moral authority and just the power of the people?

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Well, thank you for raising moral authority, because we don't talk about it enough. We basically say, what can he get away with? That is how depraved our public discourse has become about the president of the United States. What can he get away with as he keeps moving the goal line when it comes to the Constitution, when it comes to the laws with his hack Supreme Court? And yes, he has at least four hacks on that Supreme Court. We're hoping it isn't five. So we do need to talk about morality and not just law, but it's very clear this is completely illegal.

Chapter 3: What legal tools can cities use against federal overreach?

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Talk to us about that as well, because for me, as a non-political person who stepped into this space, we've always been trying to call out Donald Trump as we saw him, which is fascist. We would say, hey, these quotes sound an awful lot like Nazi Germany, what he's saying. And then whether it was corporate news or politicians, they would say, whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't go there, you can't say those things. You've never held back. We've seen so many...

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whether it was politicians or especially corporate news, just normalized this behavior, which wouldn't fly in any organization, non-profit, big corporation, medium-sized, let alone the presidency. I mean, just the way he behaves on a day-to-day basis, not to mention his criminal conviction, the civil judgments against him and all of that. But it does seem that there is right now, in late August, after the summer,

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a bit more of a of a drive by democrats or just people to say enough and fight back so that gives me hope what do you make of this moment

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Minun mielestäni nyt on aika uskoa. Jos valmistajat, demokraatit tai republikaatit, eivät ole valmistuneita, niin valitse heidät. Meidän täytyy olla amerikkalaiset, jotka ovat valmistuneita, jotka ovat valmistuneita Amerikasta, jotka ovat valmistuneita demokraatiin. Kutsuminen on, että olemme olleet selvittämättömiä, että kaikkien ihmisten on luotettu samaan.

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Well, make no mistake. Donald Trump, just like Adolf Hitler, is at war with equality. The words coming out of his mouth, the endorsement by the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacists that seem to be in every nook and cranny of wherever he goes. These people do not believe in equality. It is America's most fundamental principle.

Chapter 4: How does the conversation address the morality of political actions?

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Joko sinä olet valtiota tai ulkomaalainen, tai olet valtiota, pysy ylös. Historia katsoo. Meidän täytyy olla täällä oikealla puolella. Oma näkökulmani on se, että isäni työskennellyt ja työskennellyt World War II-vaiheessa.

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and went to school on the GI Bill after that, the son of immigrants. I know what a Nazi is. And my father-in-law was a career military pilot who flew in three wars. He knew what a Nazi is. The people who have joined the military, kept their oath,

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Care about this country do not want to be invading cities in violation of the constitution, targeting and picketing on cities that have a high proportion of minority populations, targeting a particular political party's cities. They don't want to be doing that. They shouldn't be put in that position. It's not right for them and it's not right for this country. In other words, stand up.

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Lauri, viimeisenä minun täytyy kysyä sinusta, kuinka näet Epsteinin kirjojen Trumpin yksityiskohtaisuuden? Silloin, kun olet yksityiskohtaisuusjohtaja, yritys järjestää seksikriimejä, seksitrafiikkoja. Tiedät, miten kirjoja käsitellään, miten järjestäjät käsittelevät niitä, mikä on yleinen prosessi, miten työskennellä on työtä.

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versus the convicted sex traffickers, that whole relationship, the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell gets transferred from a maximum security facility, the convicted sex trafficker, to minimum security facility, and DOJ doesn't speak to the victims at all, and the victims are being re-traumatized. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice refusing to turn over those files. Just love your overall perspective on what's happening there, given your unique position.

Chapter 5: What insights does Larry Krasner offer about Trump's legal challenges?

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First of all, there's a shredder. And that shredder is probably worn out by now. Any democrat who thinks that Donald Trump is holding documents that implicate him and that he hasn't destroyed them already if he has exclusive control over them is being naive. This is not a meeting of gentlemen. You are dealing with someone who called Epstein one of his best friends and Epstein called him that as well.

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We all know that there is a very strong possibility that his conduct was way, way, way over any moral line and possibly way over any legal line. So no, he is not going to turn over documents in his exclusive control that implicate him. We already know he's a fraudster. We already know that he's someone who does funny stuff with documents. Let's not kid ourselves, but I do think these issues are very closely related.

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Meaning, I think a lot of this talk about invading cities comes exactly at a time when there's about to be a press conference, I believe on September 3rd, that is bipartisan, demanding that this information come out. And it's important that whatever information is not already shredded come out, because at least it can be a clue as to what went on there. There is no prosecutor in the world who would ever tolerate what is going on with Jelaine Maxwell unless it was someone trying to cover up crime.

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Okay, that's a coverup. That's all it is, plain and simple. That is a coverup. It's a whole bunch of snakes involved in that thing and they're being snaky. So what we need to do is we need to keep our eyes on the prize, which is we cannot have a monarch, we cannot have an overthrow of the government of the United States. We also cannot be naive and imagine that Donald Trump is somehow gonna turn over documents that implicate him, that are in his exclusive control. They're not. We need to keep our eye on the ball

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as to what he is doing here and we need to keep pushing for justice. Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for sharing your time and wisdom with us all. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midastouch.com. All 100% USA union made.

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