The Daily Signal - Trump Swaps National Guard in Portland, Dem. Candidate for AG in VA's Murderous Texts | Oct. 6, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 After one federal judge blocks President Trump from sending the Oregon National Guard to Portland, Trump instead sends the California National Guard. The Sunday shows drudge up retired generals to complain about the Secretary of War's higher standards in the military, and text messages from a Democratic candidate for Attorney General calling for the murder of a Virginia politician and his wife and children may drag down the Virginia Democrat ticket. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennedcast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Monday, October 6th, 2025. This is the Daily Signals, top news in 10. On Saturday, October 4th, federal judge Karen Imbergut blocked President Trump's call-up of 200

Starting point is 00:00:46 National Guardsmen to Portland, Oregon, saying that this is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law, and that Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Portland ignored facts on the ground, which is not a standard, by the way, for deploying the National Guard Guard to protect federal buildings. That said, Governor Gavin Newsom's office then reported that President Trump intended to send 300 California National Guardsmen, who, of course, the courts had ruled could be federalized under the Trump administration to guard federal buildings. Trump is deploying 300 of those troops to Portland instead.

Starting point is 00:01:23 While federal judge Karen Immigate was appointed by the first Trump administration confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in 2019, she was a registered, done. Democrat when she left Portland, Oregon to work for Ken Starr, after which she became a Republican. Many have suggested in order to become a U.S. attorney under then-President George W. Bush. Gavin Newsom has since suggested that he was going to take the fight back to court over control of the California National Guard because President Trump is deploying 300 of those California National Guardsmen to Portland, saying, quote, after a federal court blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard. Donald Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon.

Starting point is 00:02:05 They are on their way there now. We are taking this fight back to court. The public cannot stay silent in the face of such reckless and authoritarian conduct by the President of the United States. Federalizing the National Guard is in fact within the ability of the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces since the National Guard was fully federalized under a more permanent status in the 30s. Here was President Trump responding to the Oregon judge blocking him from sending in the Oregon National Guard yesterday. Don't that follow the objective order in Portland? We're going to look at that. It was amazing. Portland is burning to the ground. It's

Starting point is 00:02:44 insurrectionists all over the place. It's Antifa. And yet the politicians who are petrified. Look, the politicians are afraid for their lives. That's the only reason that they say like there's nothing happening. And you've seen it. The place is burning down. and they pretend like there's nothing happening. So we'll take a look at the order. We haven't seen the order yet. Retired General Pete Chiarelli went on ABCs this week to say that he really didn't like President Trump

Starting point is 00:03:11 deploying National Guardsmen to U.S. cities because he claimed they weren't trained to do things like this. Well, I did very, very concerned because our forces don't train on a regular basis for that kind of duty and that kind of security. I also worry because the rules of engagement for police, are much different than the rules of engagement that we apply in combat. They have a higher standard, proportionality standard when applying those rules of engagement. And quite frankly, our forces are

Starting point is 00:03:46 not trained in applying those. As a matter of military history, the National Guard, the various states and Commonwealth surround the country, have in fact deployed National Guardsmen to U.S. areas of operation dozens, if not hundreds of times in the last 50 years, both in cleanup and security following natural disasters, as well as making sure that certain areas under insurrection and unrest all the way from Waco, Texas to reintegration via racial matters in the civil rights movement were taken care of. It is something that National Guardsmen specifically trained for as opposed to the active duty U.S. Army and Marines. Retired General Chiarelli also wasn't a fan of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's comments about a higher standard for physical training, especially in combat positions.

Starting point is 00:04:40 Because war does not care if you're a man or a woman. Neither does the enemy, nor does the weight of your rucksack, the size of an artillery round, or the body weight of a casualty on the battlefield who must be carried. This, and I want to be very clear about this, This is not about preventing women from serving. We very much value the impact of female troops. Our female officers and NCOs are the absolute best in the world. But when it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender neutral.

Starting point is 00:05:20 If women can make it excellent. If not, it is what it is. if that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it. That is not the intent, but it could be the result. So be it. It will also mean that weak men won't qualify because we're not playing games. This is combat. This is life or death.

Starting point is 00:05:44 On ABC's this week, here's what he said. Do you think people will resign? Is there a red line? Is there anything unlawful about what he said? No, there's nothing unlawful about what he said, nothing whatsoever. I'm concerned about what I consider an attack on women, and the fact that there are people who say that women have been let into different combat fields and cannot meet the standards.

Starting point is 00:06:12 I just don't believe that's true. I know when the Army opened up the Ranger program, the standards does not change at all, not at all. And the fact of the matter is, on today's battlefield, everybody's in combat. everybody's in contact bad. We found that out in Iraq. The minute you set foot from Kuwait into Iraq, you went into harm's way. And we needed medics. And many of our women, many of our women were assigned to medical units. So we had to pull them out and send them up with convoys. And they did amazing. On CBS faced the nation with Margaret Brennan, they didn't get retired General Chiarelli.

Starting point is 00:06:50 Instead, they got retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges to say that, Standards for men in physical fitness when it comes to the military is, quote, medieval. I think this is completely unnecessary. I have 38 years in the Army, and we've served with women in all sorts of different environments and deployments. And I never had a case where a female soldier was not able to do what she had to do. So this seems to me an unnecessary, almost a medieval approach that doesn't reflect the requirements that we have for women. and men who are intelligent, able to operate in a modern battlefield environment. And finally, Virginia Democrat Jay Jones, currently running for the position of Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, is under considerable fire for a series of text messages in which

Starting point is 00:07:41 he seemed to suggest the open murder of his political opponent, saying that if he was in a room with a former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert of Virginia, then if he only had two bullets in a room with Hitler, Pol Pot, and Gilbert. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. He also suggested he hoped that Gilbert's children and wife Jennifer would die, suggesting, and I quote, I mean, do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil, and that they're breeding little fascists?

Starting point is 00:08:11 Yes, I've told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy. There's credible evidence this could sink a lot more than Jones campaign for Attorney General. For example, gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger made a rather milk toast statement, suggesting that Jay needs to take full responsibility for his words, and that's about it. She didn't say anything about calling for him to step away from the race, anything along a line of calling out the comments specifically, just a kind of general tutting. And that's not the worst of it. Democrat organizations inside Virginia like the Virginia Blue Democrats announced a reaffirmation in full support for Jay Jones for Attorney General.

Starting point is 00:08:55 Regarding his comments saying, quote, we say let those without sin cast the first stone, end quote. As a reminder, Democrat candidate Terry McCullough made some rather unwise statements a couple of weeks out from the Virginia gubernatorial election in 2021, giving Glenn Yonkin enough momentum to win the Virginia gubernatorial election. May receive a similar boost. We'll have to. look at some of the polls, it's still a little too early to tell. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kennedcast and join us tonight at 7 p.m.

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The Daily Signal - Trump Swaps National Guard in Portland, Dem. Candidate for AG in VA's Murderous Texts | Oct. 6, 2025

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