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Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker hit back at President Donald Trump on Monday, as the president considers deploying the National Guard to Chicago. Trump said in the Oval Office that he would like to work with Democratic governors and mayors to deploy the National Guard to major cities to address violent crime. Pritzker responded to Trump’s comments during a press conference with local and state Democratic leaders, saying that Trump and the National Guard are “neither wanted here nor needed here.” “If this was really about fighting crime or making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police?” Pritzker asked. “Let me answer that question. This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try to intimidate his political rivals.” The Illinois governor said that Trump’s plans to deploy the National Guard to Chicago are “exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned against.” “Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, ‘Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?’” Priztker added. “Instead, I say, ‘Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.’” While Trump has not officially taken any step toward deploying the National Guard or federal law enforcement agents to Chicago, he said last week that the Windy City would be “next” after he ordered the National Guard and federal agents to address violent crime in the nation’s capital. On Monday, the president continued his calls for a National Guard deployment in Chicago, adding that he would prefer that Democratic leaders ask him to send in the troops. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “You really want to be asked to go, you know,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians, like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time at the gym, actually.” “That guy is a disaster,” he added. Among U.S. cities with more than one million residents, Chicago has faced the highest murder rate for seven straight years, according to data put together by the Rochester Institute of Technology and cited by the White House. In 2024, Chicago had a homicide rate of 21.7 per 100,000 people. Chicago’s murder rate was three times higher than that of Los Angeles and more than five times higher than New York’s. The Trump administration is also reportedly considering sending in the National Guard to address violent crime in Los Angeles and New York City. Trump enraged Democrats when he sidestepped California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this summer as parts of the county faced violent anti-ICE protests. Newsom sued the Trump administration over the National Guard deployment, and the decision in that case is currently pending before a federal judge.

The truck drivers tasked with transporting aid throughout Gaza say they have been villainized while they put their lives at risk, often attacked by mobs and armed looters as they try to carry out the humanitarian missions.  Near Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing, where thousands of United Nations aid truckloads sit undelivered and rotting in the sun, drivers told The Daily Wire of the dangers they face on the road. One driver explained that the mobs use tools to yank their doors open and assault them. Another driver said it feels like “a thousand” people climb on the windshield, completely blocking his line of sight.  “We can’t see a thing,” one driver in the group of men who transport aid for various humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, said. Another pointed to a truck hit by gunfire behind him during the interview. “People make us aid drivers feel like we caused the war that we caused hunger in Gaza, that we’re thieves, that we run people over,” one driver said. “We have videos to prove that people cause the problems.” NEW: The Daily Wire went inside Gaza, where we spoke with humanitarian truck drivers who described being attacked and having their trucks looted. “They break our doors to hit the driver.” WATCH: pic.twitter.com/8bhFc9yH2o — Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) August 26, 2025 The drivers’ comments come as new UN data shows that almost all of its humanitarian aid in Gaza is being looted before it reaches its destination. In July, 1,123 trucks collected aid, but 1,055 were intercepted by Gazan civilians or “armed actors,” leaving just 73 trucks—6.5% of the total—successfully delivered.  “There is no future for Gaza, no future left,” one of the drivers said. “No homes, no water, nowhere to sleep, no food! Half this aid is damaged under the sun. The other half sold by thieves and traders.” Humanitarian aid trucks in Gaza are reinforced with wire and metal to protect drivers. (Photo: Yisroel Teitelbaum/The Daily Wire) “They break our doors to hit the driver,” he said. The drivers claimed that they face problems when entering the dense areas with aid and when exiting. Several trucks nearby were fortified with metal cages over the windows and windshields and barbed wire on top. The drivers hope that in the future there will be an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and that the war will come to an end.  “We want to be done with this,” one driver said. Another—who said he was working in Israel at the time of the October 7 massacre—reflected positively on his time working in Israel. DEATH PENALTY ON THE TABLE FOR KILLER OF ISRAELI EMBASSY STAFFERS “They, as a people, treat us well, war or not,” he said. “I was treated with kindness. I lived with them and worked there two years before the war… My boss gave me complete trust.” When asked who they’d like to rule Gaza, they were open to all options. “Anyone,” one driver said. “Just rid us of this grief so we can commute in peace.” Last week, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a United Nations-backed organization responsible for monitoring global hunger, declared a famine in Gaza City. According to critics, including the Israeli government, the classification relied on faulty and Hamas-sourced data. “An objective assessment of the IPC report exposes a systematic lowering of standards: neutrality of safeguards abandoned, critical stakeholders excluded, data selectively used, projections skewed toward worst cases, famine thresholds bent until they no longer matched the IPC manual itself, and transparency sidelined as key datasets and analytical reasoning remain inaccessible to outside scrutiny,” Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, posted on X. NETANYAHU CONFIRMS ISRAEL’S PLANS TO FULLY TAKE CONTROL OF GAZA The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — which says it has distributed over 138 million meals since launching on May 26 — says it does not face looting by either armed actors or Gazan civilians, thanks to its model of handing out aid from secure sites. GHF is responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s aid initiative in Gaza, which aims to deliver humanitarian aid directly to civilians while preventing Hamas from intercepting supplies. For months, GHF has offered to assist the UN in delivering aid, but the offer has gone unanswered. Instead, the UN has vilified the group, claiming it endangers civilians by distributing aid at locations near Israeli Defense Forces operations. The GHF has pushed back on the accusations, noting that aid supplies are emptied daily by Gazan civilians, many of whom express thanks for the free assistance. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “The media says our sites are a death trap, but our workers are interacting with these people every day,” Johnnie Moore, the GHF executive chairman, told The Daily Wire. “We see at our distribution sites something people haven’t seen in a long time in the Gaza Strip: we see smiles every single day on the faces of women, on the faces of children.” Earlier this month, over 220 organizations signed a letter supporting the GHF and urging the UN to collaborate with the organization.

BROOKLYN, NY — Surrounded by law enforcement personnel, Attorney General Pam Bondi sternly told the world that a notorious drug lord who had finally pleaded guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges would die in prison. “This guy, ‘El Mayo,’ was living like a king,” Bondi said of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, as cameras flashed around her. ”Now he’s living like a criminal for the rest of his life.” “Thanks to the relentless work of our prosecutors and our federal agents, El Mayo will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He will die in a U.S. federal prison where he belongs,” Bondi told reporters. “His guilty plea brings us one step closer to achieving our goal of the elimination of the drug cartels and the transnational criminal organizations throughout this world that are flooding our country with drugs and human traffickers and homicides.” Her rhetoric and demeanor clearly spelled out the message that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department intends to send to those involved in the violent drug trade hurting so many Americans: they should be afraid, and any one of them might be next. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Attorney’s Office on August 25, 2025, in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) The attorney general had traveled to Brooklyn straight from a two-hour Oval Office meeting with the president to make the announcement at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The trip made clear that stopping the threat of drug cartels remains a top priority for the Trump administration. End of Summer Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Zambada, for example, pleaded guilty on Monday to being one of the top leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, described by the Justice Department as “one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world.” He made billions of dollars importing dangerous drugs into the United States. The DOJ said he “operated with impunity at the highest levels of the Mexican drug trafficking world while being assured of his continued success and safety from arrest through his payment of bribes to Mexican government officials and law enforcement officers.” “El Mayo” controlled those corrupt officials, who in turn protected his cartel members and the shipments of his drugs smuggled into America. “Numerous witnesses have testified, including at the trials of El Chapo and corrupt former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, that corruption at all levels was necessary to allow the Zambada Garcia’s criminal enterprise to function so effectively at such a large scale: from local police officers who escorted the drugs through Mexico, to corrupt officials who informed the Cartel of military actions, thwarted capture operations, and consulted with the Cartel about proceedings and investigations against it,” the DOJ release notes. “El Mayo’s crimes have been so prolific that in the past two decades, he’s been indicted in no fewer than 16 federal courts across our country, 16 from the Western District of Texas to Chicago to here in the Eastern District of New York. He escaped justice for decades,” the attorney general noted. “But under President Trump’s leadership, he has finally been brought to justice.” Members of the NYPD listen as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Attorney’s Office on August 25, 2025, in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) In a statement on Tuesday, family members of U.S. citizens killed by the Juárez Cartel in 2019 thanked Bondi and Trump for going after the cartels. “We are deeply grateful to President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, and the entire Trump administration for their commitment to holding cartels accountable,” said Adriana Jones, the president of “American Families Against Cartel Terrorism.” Jones is the sister of Maria “Rhonita” Le Baron and the aunt of Howard Miller Jr., Krystal Miller, and Titus and Tiana Miller — all of whom were killed in the 2019 massacre. “The Sinaloa Cartel and Juárez Cartel both represent a clear and present danger, and their actions have caused immense loss, pain, and suffering. Thanks to the efforts of this administration, our nation is safer.”  

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