Trump Suggests Rebuilding, Reopening Alcatraz As Functioning Prison

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President Donald Trump suggested Monday (May 5) that the historical island prison of Alcatraz should be rebuilt and reopened to house some of America’s most serious criminals.

“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” Trump wrote on X mid-morning Monday. (RELATED: TREND ALERT: Young Americans Are Going Red And Refusing To Look Back)

“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. No longer will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets. That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” he continued. “We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Alcatraz is famously located in the San Francisco Bay and once housed America’s most notorious criminals. Many of our modern day monsters now freely roam the streets of San Francisco. While many posts try to claim crime in the Bay Area has decreased significantly in recent years, this is untrue. California’s largely Soros-funded politicians have simply relegated many violent crimes to misdemeanors, meaning the crime stats are lower because the crimes have been rebranded as “not crimes.”

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Did One Famous Finance Guy See This Coming?

Back in 2022, financial expert Michael Burry — best known for his portrayal by Christian Bale in “The Big Short” — liquidated almost all of his investments except for one, according to me (Kay Smythe Hill) when I wrote for the Daily Caller. His one remaining investment was 500,000 Geo Group, an organization dedicated to building private prisons and mental health facilities.

At the time, the need for private prisons and mental health facilities was enormous across a majority of blue states, thanks largely to poor policy and the defund the police movement. (OTHER NEWS: Pentagon Resumes Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Care for Servicemembers)

Burry, who knew the housing market would crash in 2008 and was one of the few people who actually made money from his bet, is seen as something of an economic oracle. Did he see the need for a regrowth in the prison and mental health systems, and knew that one day a great leader would destroy the normalization of violent crime across the U.S.? Maybe. It was a pretty easy bet, but it was one that so many others missed.

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