You can hate Trump as much as you want. But the murder data is an amazing accomplishment and he has fountains, parks and public safety at record levels for the nation’s 250th birthday. The murder collapse here — & nationwide — should be front page news daily.
Just landed in DC and flew over the monuments on the approach. The new reflecting pool looks phenomenal. DC is on track for its lowest murder rate ever — murders are down 46%! compared to last year at this time — and the city is more beautiful than it has been in decades.
🚨ESPN just ADMITTED President Trump has MADE HISTORY as the "first sitting U.S. President to attend an NBA Finals game."
God bless Trump, the greatest President in U.S. history.
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General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.
At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.
Their mission: climb it.
The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.
The Rangers kept climbing.
It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.
They reached the top.
Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.
Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.
The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.
Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.
When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.
Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.
Would you guys think about a one-day get together of social media conservatives in Nashville? Sometime this fall/spring. Maybe at @JohnRich’s place!
We could call it “BuzzFest.” A day of music, speeches, fellowship, bourbon, and getting to know each other.
Whaddya think?