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Dr. Phil calls out media lies, explains what ‘REALLY’ triggered LA riots

June 13, 2025 | | Print Article

As is the case with everything that involves President Donald J. Trump, the mainstream media is pushing a highly misleading narrative about the Los Angeles riots, and America’s most beloved television psychologist called them out.

Dr. Phil McGraw found himself in the target range of the deranged left this week when it was reported that he was “embedded” with federal agents as they executed a search warrant on a business suspected of illegal activities including money laundering, and NOT a random raid as Democrat politicians and their stooges in the media claimed.

“McGraw’s presence on the ground in L.A. reinforces the made-for-TV nature of Trump’s immigration crackdown,” CNN’s Brian Stelter wrote, suggesting that there was something nefarious with Dr. Phil’s reporting.

In a column for the Daily Mail titled “I know what REALLY led to the ICE raids that triggered the LA riots… and it’s not what the reckless media is telling you,” McGraw set the record straight, rejecting the media’s fibs and half-truths, explaining what really set off the left-wing violence, and it wasn’t the rounding up of innocent illegal aliens.

“So many of these claims are untrue, provoking unnecessary distractions and more of the destructive rage that already pervades too much of our political dialogue. So allow me to set the record straight,” he wrote. “Despite the so-called ‘reporting,’ I was not actually ’embedded’ with Immigration and Customs enforcement officers making arrests during the raids in LA on Friday, June 6.”

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Dr. Phil explained that he was “privy to the parameters of the operation” and interviewed Border Czar Tom Homan the evening prior to the execution of the warrant on Ambiance Apparel and was also present at an early Friday morning multi-agency briefing at ICE headquarters in Los Angeles.

“I garnered additional insights from Mr. Homan as we drove through the area Friday, he explained. “And contrary to what’s been reported — or more accurately, not reported — in the mainstream media, federal activities on June 6 did not conduct a random round-up of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles. Rather, their coordinated multi-agency operations were conducted pursuant to a duly authorized federal search warrant — not a rumor nor hunch.”

“To obtain a search warrant, the government is required to present evidence to a federal judge who will evaluate if there is probable cause to issue such a warrant and that was done regarding a particular company in LA,” McGraw pointed out, also noting that the owner of the targeted business was previously sentenced to a year in prison after the company pleaded guilty to offenses including money laundering and conspiracy.

So despite what the media and Democrat politicians claimed, it was not a random sweep of undocumented migrants.

“In short, Friday operations were a strategic enforcement of the law — deliberate and legally sanctioned. But the response of some so-called activists, on the other hand, have been dangerous, destructive and utterly lawless,” McGraw continued. “Rioters attacked law enforcement officers throwing chunks of broken concrete and other projectiles at moving vehicles. Others blocked agents from doing their jobs. Still more rampaged through the city looting, destroying public property and even torching cars in the streets. For what?”

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McGraw also tore into the media over the gaslighting about the riots on “The Real Story,” the doctor’s popular podcast.

“Make no mistake the violence perpetrated against ICE and other law enforcement officers is not a negotiation for justice. It is a demand for surrender. But that cannot happen,” McGraw wrote in his Daily Mail column. “If you want to change immigration policy — fine. Let’s have that debate. Let’s talk reform.”

“We need more truth, not more rage. And we need a media willing to inform, not inflame,” he concluded.

Chris Donaldson
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